What light meter do you favor

lxmike

lxmike

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My Weston V has finally died and so today l bought Sekonic L208 this coupled with the good old Sunny 16 should get me by. What light meter do you use regularly or favor?
 
My Weston V has a new selenium cell placed by Quality Light Metric. This was 2-3 years ago. I don't know if they have any left, as they were said to be running out of selenium cells a year ago.

The Weston V is still my favorite and most accurate meter. My Gossen Luna Pro F is even more sensitive, just as accurate, and also does flash metering. Unfortunately, it is bulky.

The Leica MR-4 is a good little meter that couples to the camera's shutter dial (M2-M4P-M A).
 
Sekonic L-358. Bought it years ago, still find it quite useful. I did get the 1 degree spot attachment for it, but don't use that often.
 
I have several favorites, Pentax digital 1 degree, Weston Ranger 9, Minolta IV and Sekonic L28c. There are a lot of great meters.
 
Got a Sekonic L-208 which gets used when out with my OM1. Used Westons when I did wedding photography years back. Also had a Digisix for some time before switching to digicams.
Always try to encourage newbies to get a Weston when they come in to our shop though.

Paul
 
kuvvy said:
Got a Sekonic L-208 which gets used when out with my OM1. Used Westons when I did wedding photography years back. Also had a Digisix for some time before switching to digicams.
Always try to encourage newbies to get a Weston when they come in to our shop though.

Paul
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Hey Paul, hows things, all ok l hope, hows working in a camera shop going, great l bet.
 
It depends on what I am doing. For my Leica II, IIIc or my M3 or M4 I use a Gossen Digisix which is perfect for my needs. I have a couple of them preset to two different ISO settings. I usually use incident light readings but on some more complicated readings I use direct readings. - jim
 
Gossen Luna-Pro, the kind that uses the mercury battery (I have the adapter to use "regular" batteries now). That, or Sunny 16.
 
My favorite (2) is the Weston Ranger 9, I had QLM service and calibrate them to get the same readings...the Weston really made metering simple for me...they also have the Zone System scale...
 
lxmike said:
l have heard many great things about Minolta meters
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I have 2 of them. One is a IV and the other a IVF. The IV is a much more versatile meter and graphically displays ambient light along with flash and total exposure with ambient added to flash. The IVF only displays ambient and flash separate.

I've used my IV since they came out. It's had a hard life and just keeps going. I was on a job a couple of years ago and the neck strap came lose and the meter fell a good distance to the concrete floor. When it hit it flew apart like a bomb went off inside. I picked up the pieces reassembled it and it's still working. I checked it against my IVF and Sekonic 758DR meters and it agreed in both flash and ambient at low and high levels. It has a cracked LCD too and the neck strap bracket is gone but it's still working perfectly. I have 3 flash meters and the IV is still my favorite.

Prior to the IV I had a III and it was excellent as well.
 
Lunasix 3, L 398 a, digisix and a polaris light/flash meter. Digisix is with me most often because it's the smallest, l-398a is second in line because it's the sexiest.
 
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