Needle
A light meter for film and manual cameras. Lock what you set, and the meter turns the rest.
Coming soon on the App Store
Free to use. Needle Pro is one payment, never a subscription.
Lock everything and read the needle.
Set all three by hand and the needle shows how far over or under you are, the way a match-needle camera does.
See what your lens sees.
Pick your format and focal length, from 35mm to 6×7 and 4×5, and the frame lines show its view.
Long exposures, corrected for your film.
Choose Portra, Tri-X, HP5 and more. Needle adds the time your film needs past one second, then counts down the bulb.
Flash, worked out for you.
Enter your flash's guide number and the distance, and Needle gives the power to set. Or measure the pop itself.
Also in Needle
- Spot, white card and incidentMeter a spot, a sheet of white paper, or the light falling on your subject.
- Color temperatureKelvin with the filter to use for daylight or tungsten film.
- Highlights and shadowsStore a few readings to get the average and how many stops apart they are.
- Any cameraSet your shutter range, aperture range and click steps, from a Leica to a large-format view camera.
- Exposure logSave the settings of every frame, roll by roll, and share them.
Free to meter. Pay once for Pro.
Needle
The full light meter, free. An ad shows now and then, never while you're metering.
Needle Pro
One payment, no subscription. No ads, plus long exposures, flash, color, lens frames, highlight and shadow readings, and the exposure log.