Introduce us to your vintage exposure meter

[doitashimash1te]

Here's my (1955?) General Electric PR-1, which I still use on a regular basis since I bought it in the late 90's. I guess this is a selenium meter, right? It amazes me that it still works after more than 50 years. I guess it hasn't seen that much light before I started using it.

 

[rbiemer]

I have a few(really, only three or four! ) but the battery for my digi is flat. I'll post something after I replace that.
A kodalux II, and Argus clip on meter(M44? can't recall), and my newest the Sverdlovsk 4.
I like those GE meters but haven't come across one yet that's still working
Rob

 

[lynn]

This - I've posted it before, mind - is my favourite old meter...and it's surprisingly accurate!

 

[sepiareverb]

... - I've posted it before, mind - is my favourite old meter...and it's surprisingly accurate!

Where would one find one of these? Seems like something everyone should have, or at least I should have!

 

[Ash]

I only have my Leningrad meters.

I wouldn't mind that old bee-type meter

 

[Steve Bellayr]

I just picked up the PR-1, also. The darned thing was right on target.

 

[Wimpler]

I use a minolta viewmeter 9, see here: http://met.open.ac.uk/group/cpv/photo/Viewmeter9.html

Before I used a gossen variosix (if I remember correctly), but one of the LEDs stopped working making a lot harder to use.

 

[aizan]

i use two weston master iv meters. at least i used to. they both died a couple months after purchase.

 

[amateriat]

Sekonic L-428

Sekonic L-428

Redefining "vintage", perhaps...

This, I believe, was the first meter to use a silicon cell. Other than this, it's old-school all the way...sort of like sticking a modern V8 in a Studebaker Avanti.
(Whoops...already been done.). Anyway, it works, I like it, it was cheap (50 from you-know-where), and I have almost all the attachments, including spot and
enlarger tchotchkes.

- Barrett

 

[Biggles]

Late 1940s Weston Master II, Commonwealth military issue. A ten-dollar eBay find. Mr. George Milton at Quality Light Metrics gave it the spa treatment a couple of years ago; found me a manual and an Invercone for it, as well. Good as new.

I carry it as a backup to the CL's internal meter when I'm on photo-vacations.

 

[trittium]

I mostly use these

 

[doitashimash1te]

I mostly use these

Not what I would call "vintage" ;-)

 

[amateriat]

Not what I would call "vintage" ;-)

Word. And check those beads of sweat...bet he's working in half-stops there.


- Barrett

 

[landsknechte]

I haven't had much luck finding working vintage light meters, but I recently picked up a GE DW-58 meter in good shape with a WW2 "sold through the army exchange" data plate on the back.

 

[vha]

These are the one I use at the moment, think I might have a gossen luna something in a drawer somewhere too . . but not sure about that.

Use the leicameter on a weekly basis with the M3ds, and it works excellent with 400 delta or a kodak bw400cn, the Weston meter I got from a friend who got it form his father which happened to find it some place in northern england in a 2nd hand store ..
anyway I think it work, just have to learn how to read it.

Sounds like I have a project for the summer.

vha

 

[Biggles]

...the Weston meter... I think it work, just have to learn how to read it.

There's a manual here: http://www.westonmaster.com/

 

[Keith]

 

[Trawlerman]

I got a really nice WESTON MASTER IV from eBay for £40 recently.
I've checked it against my Samsung DSLR and it seems to be pretty accurate.

Even though I felt that with a meterless cam such as the FED-3a that I use, I don't really use it. I prefer to use the Sunny-16 rule as it's just easier.

 

[bsdunek]

My favorite is the Westen Master series. Problem is the selinium cell. What I use the most is a Gossen Lunisix. This has never failed me, although one has to have a good battery!

 

[colyn]

My favorite is the Weston