Comparison

DigViewer remote vs Light Meter Classic

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ€” with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

DigViewer remote

Features
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With DigViewer Remote, you can explore the location where the photos were taken from various perspectives. Furthermore, you can view EXIF data and check shooting conditions such as aperture and shutter speed. By emulating the settings of well-captured photos, you can take plenty of beautiful pictures. DigViewer remote can also be used as a companion app for Mac's DigViewer, allowing seamless integration between the two. By connecting to DigViewer running on Mac, you can display the shooting location and shooting conditions on your iPhone or iPad, synchronized with the photo display on your Mac. Additionally, you can download lens profiles created on Mac to show precise lens information and accurate field of view. Please download DigViewer for Mac from the following link. https://opiopan.github.io/DigViewer/

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Light Meter Classic

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A reflected-light meter for film photography. It uses the phone camera as its sensor, lets you choose exactly which part of the frame to measure, and works out the ISO / aperture / shutter combination to set on your camera โ€” restricted to the values that camera actually has. It exists for the situations a film camera's own meter gets wrong: a face against a bright window, a subject lit from behind, a stage. Those are exactly the cases where averaging the whole frame throws the exposure away, and where being able to say "measure here, not there" fixes it. MEASURE WHERE YOU WANT โ€ข SPOT โ€” a small area, for a face or a shadow โ€ข CENTRE โ€” weighted three-to-one towards the middle โ€ข AVG โ€” the whole frame โ€ข BOX โ€” drag to move it, drag the corner to resize it The preview is a 3:2 window: the frame a 35mm camera gets, whatever the shape of your screen. SOLVES FOR THE SETTING YOU NEED One setting is computed, the other two you set by hand. Each of the three tiles carries its own AUTO switch โ€” tap AUTO on aperture and the app finds the aperture; tap it on shutter and it finds the shutter. One button hands both to the app at once. Every value the app returns is one your camera has. Settings holds three ranges โ€” shutter, aperture, film speed โ€” each with its own step size (full, half or third stops), a bulb switch, and the speed below which to warn you about camera shake. That covers any body and lens without a library of them. FREEZE Hold a reading so you can recompose without it changing. The value turns blue and the label reads FROZEN. MULTI-SPOT AND ZONES Store several readings with + SPOT and the app places the scene midway between its extremes, rather than letting any one reading pull the exposure to middle grey. Each stored reading is shown as a zone against the chosen exposure. CALIBRATION A phone differs from a reference meter by a fixed amount. Measure it once โ€” fill the frame with an evenly lit surface, dial in what a camera you trust says, and save the point. Check at a few light levels and add a point where it is out; the app interpolates between them. Calibration is keyed to the phone and lens, so it stays true across sessions, and exports to JSON so it can be backed up or moved to another phone. The readout shows CAL +0.42 when an offset is being applied, or NO CAL when there is none โ€” so you always know which you are looking at. No offsets are shipped for devices that have not been measured. An invented number is worse than none, because it looks like a measurement. RECIPROCITY AND FILM Long exposures need more time than the maths alone says. Where a manufacturer publishes the figure for a film, the app applies it; where none is published, it applies nothing rather than guessing. SHOT LOG Keep what you metered and what you set, so a roll can be read back later. NO ACCOUNT, NO NETWORK, NO TRACKING Nothing is uploaded. The camera is used to meter light and nothing else โ€” no photo is captured, stored or sent.

Screenshots

DigViewer remote4 screens
Light Meter Classic4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: DigViewer remote at 3 against Light Meter Classic's 1. DigViewer remote also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.4). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
DigViewer remote versus Light Meter Classic: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDigViewer remoteLight Meter Classic
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 โ€” better16.4
Further details โ€” not scored
Size3 MB37 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHIROSHI MURAYAMACarabala Pte. Ltd.

In-app purchases

None

DigViewer remote

No in-app purchases

None

Light Meter Classic

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DigViewer remote free?
DigViewer remote is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Light Meter Classic free?
Light Meter Classic is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do DigViewer remote or Light Meter Classic have ads?
Neither DigViewer remote nor Light Meter Classic shows ads.

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