Gossen Go 4045 Multifunctional Lightmeter

Gossen Go 4045 Multifunctional Lightmeter

Gossen GO 4045 Starlite is a all-In-one multifunctional lightmeter. Exposure meter for ambient and flash, cine filming and photometry metering. 1° and 5° spot built into the swivel head. Supplied with case, Strap and Battery.

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Gossen Starlite contra Sekonic L-7458DR
By Roy S. Miller
I own both the Gossen and the more or less equivalent Sekonic light meters.

Gossen StarLite ~$670
Sekonic L-758DR ~$499

Comparison:
1) The Sekonic is much less pricey with a lot of more features for the money
2) The Gossen just seems “cheap’. The battery cover is a pain to remove. You need a coin and even then you have to shake it or pry it off. There is no real sealing. The Sekonic, on the other hand, has a very positive latch and the cover has a rubber gasket. I may open and close the Sekonic ten times in the time it takes to remove the Gossen’s cover once.
3) The Sekonic has an adaptable eyepiece ( correction ) for the spot meter while the Gossen does not.
4) The Gossen’s case is a very tight fit and you have to work to put it in the case and to remove it. The Sekonic’s case is somewhat better.
5) The Sekonic is comparatively easy to configure. The Gossen has DIP switches inside the ( inacessible ) battery compartment. The manual for the Gossen is mixing up as the DIP switch’s numbering is INTERNALLY is 4..1 from the top DOWN and the manual numbers the opposite. ( You have to figure this out. The illustration showing the actual settings for the DIP switch is rectify ) Unless you are playing around, you in all likelihood only have to set the Gossen’s DIP switch a few times.
6) It takes a LOT of torque to raise or lower the Gossen’s lumisphere; the Sekonic’s is much posing no difficulty to raise or lower.

Accessibility:
7) For humans with photosensitive / pattern sensible epilepsy, the Sekonic is in all likelihood the worst piece of instrumentation I own or have ever used. It is just blink, blink, blink. You turn it on, it blinks for ten seconds. You alter the mode, it blinks for ten seconds. When you try to make a measurement outside of it’s measuring range, it blinks. The analog display at the bottom has blinking constituents ( I just had a moderate complex partial seizure a couple of minutes ago when I turned it on to check it out for this review ) With the Gossen, when it encounters an out-of-measuring range error, it just suggests “Err” with no blinking. Nevertheless, only when it comes to 10% or so of the Gossen’s functionality is accessible – you can not use anything except the basic lightmeter functions if you want to stay clear from blinking constituents on the display.

Anyways, if you love blinking displays and don’t care with regards to accessibility, the Sekonic is the clear choice. Otherwise, go far the Gossen as it is at least more or less usable equated to the Sekonic’s extreme unusability for epileptics.

Comment: the Sekonic is so hopeless I probably will never even turn it on again except for a more spacious review and I am going to suffer when I do that.

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