dmr
Registered Abuser
This may or may not be my lucky day! 
To make a long story long, I was just given a used, as-is, condition unknown, Gossen Super Pilot light meter by a FOAF. This was one of those "if you can use it, it's yours, if not, just toss it" type of things.
From a bit of googling, it looks like this may be a very good find!
Do we have any opinions, good or bad, on this thing?
Two Big Burning Questions<tm> here ...
1. Does anybody know of anybody who does service, particularly check-out and calibration to a known standard on this kind of thing? Any recommendations? I have NO CLUE how accurate this thing is with the correct battery, which brings up ...
2. What kind of battery do you use in yours, if you have one? It looks like it takes the Big Bad PX625, you know, the one that will destroy the universe. It came with one very dead battery of unknown age. I had to scrape and clean some greenish grode out of the battery compartment, which really was not that bad. I'm thinking of stopping by the Real Camera Shop<tm> when I'm in the city tomorrow to see if they have the Wein battery. Anybody familiar with these?
I tried one of the modern 625s out of one of the GIII, and it does measure light. It's not very sunny now, so I can't give it a sunny-16 sanity check, but it does agree within about 3/4 of a stop with the black GIII, which has the "wrong" battery and has not been recalibrated.
3. (I lied, there are 3 questions) Does anybody know the approximate vintage of this meter? My guess is that it's mid 80s, but I really have no clue.
Thanks as usual, gang.
To make a long story long, I was just given a used, as-is, condition unknown, Gossen Super Pilot light meter by a FOAF. This was one of those "if you can use it, it's yours, if not, just toss it" type of things.
From a bit of googling, it looks like this may be a very good find!
Do we have any opinions, good or bad, on this thing?
Two Big Burning Questions<tm> here ...
1. Does anybody know of anybody who does service, particularly check-out and calibration to a known standard on this kind of thing? Any recommendations? I have NO CLUE how accurate this thing is with the correct battery, which brings up ...
2. What kind of battery do you use in yours, if you have one? It looks like it takes the Big Bad PX625, you know, the one that will destroy the universe. It came with one very dead battery of unknown age. I had to scrape and clean some greenish grode out of the battery compartment, which really was not that bad. I'm thinking of stopping by the Real Camera Shop<tm> when I'm in the city tomorrow to see if they have the Wein battery. Anybody familiar with these?
I tried one of the modern 625s out of one of the GIII, and it does measure light. It's not very sunny now, so I can't give it a sunny-16 sanity check, but it does agree within about 3/4 of a stop with the black GIII, which has the "wrong" battery and has not been recalibrated.
3. (I lied, there are 3 questions)
Does anybody know the approximate vintage of this meter? My guess is that it's mid 80s, but I really have no clue.Thanks as usual, gang.
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wlewisiii
Guest
I use a Wein cell in mine, it's accurate & I like it. Not much else to be said, really. I thought they dated from the late 60's through the early 80's.
William
William
lewis44
Well-known
Bogen does the factory service for Gossen
http://www.bogenimaging.us/Jahia/site/bius/lang/en_US/pid/11358
http://www.bogenimaging.us/Jahia/site/bius/lang/en_US/pid/11358