M3 and Meter

[nasmformyzombie]

I'm thinking about getting back into RF photography after a few years away. While the Zeiss Ikon and Leica M7 are very attractive, I'm thinking about saving a few bucks and also getting one of the best viewfinders available---with a Leica M3. Just wondering what kind of meters you meterless body shooters are using these days.

 

[Topdog1]

Sekonic Twinmate.
It's great.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/con...224&is=REG&addedTroughType=categoryNavigation

/Ira

 

[back alley]

the zi blows the doors off an m3 in the finder department.

meter might depend on shooting habits.
i have a small pilot but used it outside during the day.
low light could use a meter with a wider range.

 

[Todd.Hanz]

I use a VC II meter, tiny and it looks like it was made for the meterless M's.

Todd

 

[Matthew Runkel]

I use a Sekonic L-308, almost always in ambient mode. It's great.

It's hard to think of a finder less in need of having its doors blown off than the one installed in the M3. I guess that would be the ZI finder.

 

[back alley]

the m3 was the inspiration for the zi finder.

 

[Matthew Runkel]

the m3 was the inspiration for the zi finder.

Either will spoil you on just about anything else.

 

[LeicaM3]

you meterless body shooters

Mostly meterless. 400 film over years, even I learned. Once you have learned what is right for 400 you can just extrapolate to 100, 200, 800, 1600. It is fun to check yourself at times with a meter. You will find there is not that much to it.

I do have a Sekonic 308 that I can highly recommend.


Andreas

 

[DMG]

sekonic 308

 

[markinlondon]

I use either a Leicameter MR, VCII or a Weston Euromaster. Depends on how I'm feeling. The VCII is the most accurate and works nicely. The MR is great at other times as it gives a sort of "aperture- priority" operation and it looks cool too.

 

[colinh]

As it happens, I just received my M3. It is indeed as nice as everyone says.

Meterless would be the goal, as I find the add-on meters ugly.

For the moment I have a Gossen Digisix. A tiny thing which fits nicely in my pocket. I wanted the smallest, simplest meter. There was also a sekonic (don't know the model nummer) but it felt like something you would find in a cornflakes packet. - The Gossen is made in the land of the BMW and M3 🙂

colin

 

[colinh]

Just checked: The sekonic I saw was the L-208. The L-308S looks much better (but also bigger, more complicated and more expensive 🙂 )

colin

 

[Avotius]

the VCII is a good choice, nice and compact and fits well on the cameras

 

[KoNickon]

I have an MR meter that's pretty accurate. Also use a LunaSix (but it's not really pocketable). Outdoors in decent light I try to work without a net.

 

[wilt]

Quantum calculight xp, incident light.

 

[cary]

I use a Minolta iV and a Broncolor FCM meters. Every once in a while I break out my Sekonic L28C2.

Cary Chin