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Our first try at an integration dome to use as a light meter.  I made it to fit my iPhone 4  covering the front camera ( used for facetime)  We also found a lightmeter app that can access this camera.  The first proto actually works!   The Pocket Light meter app seems to work the best. We will have to test it against a real light meter soon.

  Using a light meter as a learning tool.  After playing with my brand new D5000 for a while I wanted to try some manual settings. I took some photography classes in college so I knew the basics.  How the aperture and shutter speeds effected the exposure. I was in the dark on how to work with the automatic light meter. In auto mode the the settings are all over the place. Even the film speed was running all over the place.  This gave me the idea to go back to basics. So, I borrowed a friends light meter.  This...