Canon P light meter instruction

[mifo2000]

Hi everybody,

a few days ago , I bought a Canon lightmeter for the "P".
Is there a chance to get an instruction manual from someone?
Thanks for your answers!
Greetings from Germany
Michael

 

[rbiemer]

Michael,
Try here:http://www.butkus.org/chinon/canon/canon_p/canon_p.htm.
Rob

 

[mifo2000]

Thanks Rob, now I start shooting!

 

[gliderbee]

Michael,
Try here:http://www.butkus.org/chinon/canon/canon_p/canon_p.htm.
Rob

I just bought such a meter, and I'm looking for the instructions, but this link doesn't seem to work anymore.

Anybody another idea where I can get one ?

I have two questions with it right now:

- there's a white item that can slide over the metering glass. What is it for ?
- there's a small switch with a black dot on it, that can be turned versus a orange or white dot. I guess this is resp. low and high metering, but it doesn't react when I change it; anything I can do about that ?

thanks,
Stefan.

 

[KoNickon]

The "white item" is the incident metering mask. For selenium meters, with their wide angle of acceptance (read: easy to underexpose if there's sky in the shot), this is very useful.

You understand correctly about the high and low switch. Orange = low range. Do you get any reaction the two different ranges? For instance, does the low range go all the way to the bottom when you're outside on a sunny day? Try pushing on the meter window -- there may be a not-great connection and a little physical prodding might help.

Don't hold out a lot of hope for getting this to work properly, I'm afraid. Keep in mind it's 50 years old at this point.

 

[gliderbee]

The "white item" is the incident metering mask. For selenium meters, with their wide angle of acceptance (read: easy to underexpose if there's sky in the shot), this is very useful.

You understand correctly about the high and low switch. Orange = low range. Do you get any reaction the two different ranges? For instance, does the low range go all the way to the bottom when you're outside on a sunny day? Try pushing on the meter window -- there may be a not-great connection and a little physical prodding might help.

Don't hold out a lot of hope for getting this to work properly, I'm afraid. Keep in mind it's 50 years old at this point.

I suspected something like that about teh incident metering mask, thanks !

About he meter: it does work, but apparently only in the low range; it just makes no difference how I set the switch. Can I risk opening it ? There's a very small screw on the side and one at the bottom, near a "-o-" sign; I guess the last one is for calibrating it ?

I bought it together with a canon P, 50/1.8mm and a nice brown leather case for it. It would be nice if I could get the meter working properly; the case is even made to accept the camera with meter. Just received everything today and drooling a bit ...😛

thanks,
Stefan.

thanks,
Stefan.

 

[gliderbee]

Ok, I couldn't stop myself, and I opened the meter , and I got it WORKING AGAIN !

That switch is underneath the hood just like a screwdriver blade: by turning it a quarter turn, it shows it "larger" size and pushes a small electrical spring out of the way, so that is doesn't make any contact anymore, and you're in high-metering mode.

The "blade" is convered by some kind of shrink tube, and that's wasn't large enough anymore; just pinching it a bit to make it "large" again did it. We'll see how long it holds this way, but I know now what to do next time.

Stefan.

 

[airds]

more on meters

more on meters

Peter Kitchingman's CanonRF site has a good article about the meters CANON-METER 1 & 2 and CANON-METER A

Any one any news of Peter's book?

 

[littlemax]

I am having the same issue with my Canon P meter. Though I can't even open it.
Removed one long screw at the back. Removed the 4 screws of the flash shoe insert, removed 3 screws for the speed wheel, and removed 2 more screws below the speed wheel.

Not sure what to remove now, or if I should try to separate it at this stage.

 

[Lawrence Sheperd]

You might try this link for Kitchingman's meter page:

http://www.canonrangefinder.com/?page=blog&id=19

 

[fomapanboy]

Ok, I couldn't stop myself, and I opened the meter , and I got it WORKING AGAIN !

That switch is underneath the hood just like a screwdriver blade: by turning it a quarter turn, it shows it "larger" size and pushes a small electrical spring out of the way, so that is doesn't make any contact anymore, and you're in high-metering mode.

The "blade" is convered by some kind of shrink tube, and that's wasn't large enough anymore; just pinching it a bit to make it "large" again did it. We'll see how long it holds this way, but I know now what to do next time.

Stefan.

Hi, i'm a bit late to this thread but. I Bought a Canon P with the same lightmeter and it worked until now. I have the leather case and the protection for the selenium cell and I always kept it it in the dark in general. Now it's kinda funky, the switch does not respond correclty unless i beat it so that the low light setting gives me proper reading (I tried it only once). I tried opening it up but i don't have the tools only except for one screwdriver that lets me take only the lateral screw off. I tried turning the one at the bottom counterclock wise but i leaned now that it's for calibration or smt.
Did you solve your issue, how?