Do you know of any SLRs with uncoupled meter like Rollei 35?

[ZeissFan]

Some of these cameras have "repeater" windows for the meter. Some meters are coupled. Some aren't.

If you want an uncoupled meter, you might as well get a hand-held or shoe-mounted meter.

 

[sanmich]

The original Nikon F with FTN finder has a read out on top.

F2 meters too.

It's a very efficient way of metering.
I would love to have seen the M6 with two small diodes on the top plate (duck and run 😀)

 

[oftheherd]

I am a little unclear what you are trying to do myself. I have used a Yashica TL Super for macro, and they certainly take a wide range of M42 lenses. My Fujica ST901 had the advantage of having a blind on the viewfinder window so I could focus and close the blind and let the very accurate aperture preferred exposure take over. It also uses M42 lenses of most any ilk as well as the great Fujinon lenses. I preferred it over my Yashica.

There are many other cameras that can be used as well for macro. One just needs to learn how to use them.

 

[Spanik]

Kiev 60, but why you would need that I haven't a clue.

 

[68degrees]

I guess the thing I like is being able to set the camera before raising it to my eye. The less time Im holding the camera to my eye the better. Thats what I like about the Rollei 35 but they have a fixed lens. Id like wide and macro capability in a camera that I can set before raising it to take a pic.

 

[mbf4755]

There were interchangable finders for Exaktas with uncoupled meters.
Matt

 

[FrankS]

Nikkormats Ftn, ft3, ft3 all have top deck meter readouts like the Rollei 35.
I like that feature very much. You can set the camera for exposure without needing to raise it up to your eye.

 

[shadowfox]

Wirgin Edixa-flex (M42 mount).

 

[68degrees]

Nikkormats Ftn, ft3, ft3 all have top deck meter readouts like the Rollei 35.
I like that feature very much. You can set the camera for exposure without needing to raise it up to your eye.

would my AI lenses fit?

 

[Godfrey]

would my AI lenses fit?

Of course they do, I use AI and AI-S lenses with the Nikon F Photomic FTn all the time, when I fit that great lump of a meter head.

G

 

[Chris101]

I see now what you mean. Have you considered using a small hand held meter? I find they provide an ideal way to meter a scene prior to composing/focusing. In face, with a 35mm lens or so, you can shoot quite competently completely without even looking through the peep hole.

 

[Pablito]

He does not want an uncoupled meter. He wants a camera with a meter read out on the top plate. Some of the Bessa RF cameras have that too but of course they are not SLR. Great for wides, though, 'specially the R4.

well, the Bessa meter may not be on the top plate but it's external I think. You can see it w/o looking thru the finder.

 

[fuji645]

Consider the Topcon RE Super (Super D in the US) It has a needle that's visible to the left of the viewfinder next to the rewind crank. Great for waist level viewing and metering using bellows or extension rings.

 

[fuji645]

Maybe some of the older Alpa models? the 9d comes to mind.

 

[Ed Bray]

Hasselblad 500cm with metering knob.

 

[68degrees]

Thank you everyone for your input. Im going to go with a Nikkormat because I already have a bunch of lenses that will fit.

 

[oftheherd]

I guess the thing I like is being able to set the camera before raising it to my eye. The less time Im holding the camera to my eye the better. Thats what I like about the Rollei 35 but they have a fixed lens. Id like wide and macro capability in a camera that I can set before raising it to take a pic.

I noted that you had already decided on a camera, and considering you said you have more lenses for it, that is probably a good choice. But I would think any good automatic exposure camera would allow you to do the same thing. Certainly my Fujica ST901 allowed that. If the meter is accurate, and the response as it should be, it really shouldn't make any difference if it is aperture preferred or shutter preferred. You would just have to decide which is preferred, control of aperture or shutter.

 

[ZeissFan]

One thing to keep in mind is that the meters on the other cameras very much average a scene. With an SLR, when you meter using the repeater window on the top of the camera, you must be more careful about where the lens is pointing.

The SLRs with the repeater windows that use TTL metering "read" a scene differently than those with the front-mounted CdS or selenium cells.

I think you should be OK with most scenes, but with a wide angle or telephoto lens, you'll want to be more careful because the lens might be reading different parts of a scene unintentionally.

Just something to think about as you move forward with this.

 

[68degrees]

One thing to keep in mind is that the meters on the other cameras very much average a scene. With an SLR, when you meter using the repeater window on the top of the camera, you must be more careful about where the lens is pointing.

The SLRs with the repeater windows that use TTL metering "read" a scene differently than those with the front-mounted CdS or selenium cells.

I think you should be OK with most scenes, but with a wide angle or telephoto lens, you'll want to be more careful because the lens might be reading different parts of a scene unintentionally.

Just something to think about as you move forward with this.

what is this 'repeater window' that you speak of? Is there one on the nikon fm or ft3?

 

[pakeha]

minolta SR7?..some good rokkor lens to go with it