What kind of light meter do you use for your M?

What is this "light meter" you speak of?

Seriously though, I use the VCII or Sunny 16. Sunny 16 is quite fast once you get the hang of it.
 
Sekonic Twinmate. It's small, quick in operation, and I like having all matching aperture/shutter-speed combinations at a glance.

Tough, too - mine was my son's favourite chew toy for a year and a half, and it still works perfectly.
 
Quality LightMetric is the place to get Westons repaired. The last I heard they could still replace the selenium cells. They've rebuilt two Master V meters for me. (213) 467-2265.
They also repair other brands.
 
ruben said:
Dear noah,

With all due respect, I have not understood the relationship between M's and lightmeters. Not from your post, nor from the answers.

Nevertheless I may assume some relationship between "old shcoolers" and light meter types, if you allude the famous statement "expose for the shadows, develope for the highlights", in whose case the last versions of the legendary Weston Master meters are to my understanding the most suitably marked.

I happen to own two of them, but they are a bit heavy compared to the Sekonic digital versions like the small Flashmates or the superb spot 400 and something.

Unfortunately I never liked the Gossen theology for light meters, with one single extraordinary exception - the Pilots, from which I own two. Unforunately their sellenium cells seem to have not resisted the proof of time as well as other sellenium versions of camera built in versions. Therefore I am sure the VCs must be great winners in the shoe mount cathegory.

But would a VC be less suitable for a non-M manual camera ?

For the bigger sized Gossen light meters I have a digisix or something like it, making me a headache to read its dials, and specially its dots, about which I have not made my mind in a definitely way.

And after all this gallery of light meters, which is not mentioning one or two additional oldies, I still don't understand what relationship can possibly be between the highly respected Leica M cameras, and the type of light meter you use. Are you implying that I should buy a M' in order to understand ?

Cheers,
Ruben
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I'm simply asking which light meters we all use, that's all.
 
noah booshu said:
I'm simply asking which light meters we all use, that's all.
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ROTFL - Ruben is a wonderful, helpful guy but sees no need for idle discussions like some of us. He needs to rationalize your question and try to see the underlying issues in an analytical manner. You answer was terrific. (Because I wanted as talk about it!) :D
 
Gossen Sixti, bought on eBay for $10. Fits in the hotshoe but only goes to ISO 200. Plus an old LunaPro sometimes, but it's as big as the camera so I don't carry it all that much.
 
Gossen Digiflash - Nice, small, quite fast, very light... Accurate and works also in dim light.

Negative things: too many modes I never will use and just 2 buttons to browse through them. Often it slips on wrong mode in a pocket or bag.
 
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