Blog — lightmeter

Thursday May 16th   Hi Everyone, We're on track to have all manufacture complete by the start of June. The diffusion dome tooling is complete, and the iPhone 5 and iPhone 4(S) clips are wrapping up next week. The machined (ABS) versions are shipping on May 20th.Once the production is complete we'll be getting them shipped to us, then to you. We looked into having them ship direct to you from the manufacturer to expedite the process, but that turned out to be impossible. Instead we're going to have them packaged, put into mailers, addressed and labelled by the manufacturer,...

You may have noticed we jazzed up the website a little, finally. Well there's a lot more going on behind the scenes... We're really busy with Luxi. It's amazing to think we've taken a product from invention through to manufacturing in just a few  months. In a large part we have our Kickstarter backers to thank for that. We've had numerous design iterations, a lot of back-and-forth with app developers. We've made two versions, and designed packaging to boot! We couldn't do it without our lead Industrial Designer, Shane. He's a total legend. When he's not designing great products for...

Some Kickstarter backers asked to see Luxi in action, compared to existing devices. This week we tested Luxi with a Sekonic L-308 and a digital lux meter. We used Pocket Light Meter and Light Meter by White Goods for the lux testing.     Outside the Extrasensory Devices office on a cloudy day. We see time at 1/500, f/16 and ISO 800. Beautiful public plants in Palo Alto get the same light meter treatment: 1/500, f/11. Digital lux meter test images:   Direct sunlight: ~95,000 lux! Lux reading in our workshop. More images available here.

Extrasensory Devices has launched Luxi, an incident light meter attachment for iPhones. Luxi clips onto your iPhone and, with an app, turns it into a light meter for photography, videography, or anything else that requires measuring light levels. Using Luxi, photographers can turn their iPhone into an incident light meter.     Follow us on Twitter and visit us on Facebook.

One of the final prototypes mounted to an iPhone 4.  Hand made Acrylic dome to simulate final translucent dome.  The large dome gathers plenty of light to make a good sample for the camera to meter with.