VCII Metering Pattern?

[tedwin]

Hello

Have had a good look around and can't find what I'm after, hoping someone here can help.

According to the Cameraquest site the VCII covers around 30degs. I assume I can use just inside the 50mm framelines to give me an idea of what it's seeing?

With reflective meters I like to know the pattern or area they cover. If anyone knows the pattern / weighting / approx frameline coverage of the VCII it would be great to know.

Thanks in advance.

Ted.

 

[Stu W]

I had the VCII and from what I recall the meter approximated the area covered by a 90mm lens. Stu

 

[ferider]

Like Stu said, Ted.

 

[Paul T.]

I believe the same as Stu. I might have read that in the manual. Or hallucinated it.

 

[payasam]

Stu is right. This meter has no pattern or weighting.

 

[Roger Hicks]

Dear Ted,

No real weighting -- very slight centre bias, perhaps -- and close enough to 90mm, as others have said. Or 75mm with rather more centre weighting...

Cheers,

R.

 

[mmikaoj]

Do you people use it to measure the light from a scene? Like point it in the same direction your shooting? I allways measure from the inside of my hand, held in shadow. Am I missing something?

 

[Roger Hicks]

When in doubt, point it towards the darker part of the scene for negatives. Reading off your hand is effectively taking an incident light reading, the light incident on a subject of constant reflectivity: ideal for transparency,

Cheers,

R.

 

[charjohncarter]

Roger, those are two great sentences: the ultimate mini course on metering.