Leningrad 6 - Meter copy of Lunasix 3?

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Recently I got from Ebay this meter, and my first impresion was the size, it's nearly as big as a compact camera (a Konica C35 ).
It cost me about 2 days to understand how does it work, but when I did found it is very responsive and precise, I compared it with my Minolta Maxxum 400si built in meter and the Leningrad goes beyond the low level metering and It matched ok at better ilumination. I did some research in the web and there isn´t much info about it.
I got more info from what seller´s claim at Ebay than what I could find at the net.

Some claim it's a Lunasix 3 copy, but since I don't know it I can't tell if it's similar and as big and heavy.

It's going to be my Zorki 4 and Kiev 4a companion, all big and heavy, maybe it isn't practic but I like the simil between Leica-Gossen and Zorki-Leningrad
 
I have one of these. I'm still not certain I understand completely how it works. Because of the season I have used it a lot indoors with normal living room lighting. The needle ends up very often in the 10-11-12 area, right at the border of the two scales. Maybe it will be easier when I take it outside.
 
If that little eye in the center of the dial is a sighting window, I'd say it's more similar to a Metrastar meter than a Gossen. (The Metrastar was a CdS meter made by another German company, Metrawatt. It had a little right-angle viewfinder, kind of like those on old folding cameras, to help you aim it.)

Just from looking at the picture of this Leningrad meter, I'd say it's a CdS type (wonder what kind of strange battery it uses?!?) Note that the film speed dial will be calibrated in the Russian GOST scale rather than ASA, so using the DIN side is probably the easiest way to dial in the film speed.
 
You are right, the window it's a viewfinder that let's you spot the area to be measured.
This is also a CDS meter, it works with a PX625A battery.
I think it must be a copy, russian's did it with the cameras so it wont be strange in meters.
 
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