Light meter, hand held what do you use.

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Just curious, I use Hasselblad's and a Super Ikonta C my light meter is a Minolta spot purchased in 1985, love it so much that when they stopped making them I got another one for reserve.
After reading Ansel Adams choice, he used a Pentax, I preferred the Minolta version. I have honestly never ever taken a bad exposure with a spot meter.
 
Weston II. From the 1950s. You can get them on eBay for $5 to $20. If you get a dud, order another or most not difficult to fix. Perfect pairing for a vintage camera and feels great in the hand
 
Gossen Lunasix 3. Does reflected and incident with the white dome slid into place. With the semi-spot attachment for 15º or 7.5º when necessary. Small wrist strap to let it dangle.

Almost as big as the Leica II and therefore can easily be handled with one hand, and it looks kinda pro...:cool:

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It is an App Called "Lightmeter" (Android), the paid version has both Reflected and incident light reading though the phones camera lens. It also has +/- 2 EV adjustment for both. The Reflected reading works with almost all cell phones... the incident is more limited...
Oh. it has ZOOM also... 3x I think, for a more selective area.
Looks like an Old Timer handheld.

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Lightmeter for Android

Works great with Galaxy S3
 
I have...
Gossen Luna Pro SBC
Weston Ranger 9
Weston Master II
Gossen Pilot

The last three were serviced by Quality Light Metric and work beautifully...
I have a second Weston Ranger that still needs servicing and hope to send it in soon...
I use the Weston Ranger the most unless I'm metering for flash then it's the Luna Pro SBC with the Flash attachment...
 
I have a bunch of Minolta meters. For black and white, I use either the Spotmeter F or the Flash Meter VI. The FM-VI has both one-degree spot and incident metering all in one. For color, which is mostly digital now, I use the Flash Meter VI or Flash Meter IV.
 
Sekonic L328
Fotometer Pro app on iPhone 4S
Luxi with Pocket Light Meter app on iPhone 4S

I generally do incident light metering.

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johannielscom said:
Gossen Lunasix 3. Does reflected and incident with the white dome slid into place. With the semi-spot attachment for 15º or 7.5º when necessary. Small wrist strap to let it dangle.

Almost as big as the Leica II and therefore can easily be handled with one hand, and it looks kinda pro...:cool:

:D
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Johan, I recently got a Luna pro sbc with enormous one degree spot attachment - very bulky, but it worked beautifully for a few weeks, usable in very low light. Now the spot attachment died! I already love the meter, now I have to send to QLM and hope for the best .

Anyway, I vote for that as best meter I have seen so far.
Randy
 
Sekonic Twinmate L-208 to put in pocket, Minolta Auto Meter IV F and Sekonic L-358 for Bag.

Love the TwinMate for the size.

Have the Lightmeter App for my mobile as well.
 
Sekonic L-608 for spot metering for 120 and 4x5 critical and incident metering for indoor shoots
Hasselblad PME51 (prism finder and reflective meter) for casual 500C/M shooting
Sekonic L-308S for everyday street in all formats - it's so small and pocketable!
Eye for much 35mm street (e.g. forgot my meter on a hike yesterday, metered by eye with my M4/35mm Summicron and FP4 Plus)
 
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