Gossen Pilot II - has anyone tried it?

[spystyle]

Hey I love having an accurate hand-held meter with "silicone diode". I can test all the other cameras to make sure they have accurate meters 🙂

I used my handheld meter to test the meter in my new 1979 Nikon EM evil-SLR and was pleased to see that it's metering is accurate.

But then I saw on Wikipedia that the Nikon EM has a "silicone" meter too (click), yikes they had this all the way back in 1979 ? And I thought I was so high tech ...

 

[geordiefred]

Interesting reading. all the above. I have the Shepherd DM 170, and worked out how to use it, as there was no instruction leaflet with it. Has anyone come across instructions for the DM 170 on the internet ? The Shepherd meters are made in Japan, but I do not know where the English name comes from. Originally they sold new for just below £100.00 in the '90s. Have used it for medium format work, and it has been accurate.

 

[spystyle]

Here are the instructions for using the Shepherd DM-170 light meter

...When you meter something, and the LCD comes up with something like "11" or "9.5", you simply turn the dial with the red pointer to point at the the red "11" or "9.5" on the outermost ring. After that, you have all of the exposure combinations possible. The "time" scale on the inner ring corresponds to your shutter speed. The white numbers on the outer ring correspond to f-stops. So, as an example, let's say your meter reads a scene as "15". You turn the red pointer to the red 15 on the outer dial. Then, you decide you'd like to use f/16, so you look for the white "16" on the outermost dial. The number corresponding with the white "16" on the inner dial will be your shutter speed, which in this case will be "500" (which is 1/500th of a second).

See, it's not too hard. Just have to be smarter than the meter! 😉

Here is a chart of f/stops that I think is wonderful 🙂

http://www.photographyuncapped.com/articles/photography/iso-shutter-speeds-f-stops/

I like the Shepherd meter so much I also bought the Shepherd flash meter for calculating exposure of bounce flash 🙂

Have fun!
Craig