What light meter do you favor

[lxmike]

Things are fine Mick and plenty of photogs out there still using film.

good to hear things are fine 😎must admit l have been shooting a lot more film recently and thats about to increase with the arrival of the 500C😀

 

[lxmike]

thanks for all the replies chaps, make me want to try and resurrect the Weston V

 

[CMur12]

There are a lot of great meters out there. I really like my Minolta Spotmeter F and Autometer III. (I should have gotten the Autometer III F, as it also does flash metering, but I almost never use flash anyway.)

As I recall, the Autometer IV came out the same time as the Maxxum/Dynax 9000 (the first professional autofocus camera by Minolta). You could take a light reading with the Autometer IV and transmit the settings wirelessly to the 9000 and trip the shutter from the meter.

- Murray

 

[venchka]

M5
Gossen Luna-Pro sbc, Minolta Auto Meter IVF, Weston Master V (The no battery backup to all the rest).
The M5 meter is the best.

Wayne



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[jamin-b]

Twinmate for cameras w/o meter, Leica MC for M3. But the internal meter on the Nikon Fm3a is perhaps the most consistently accurate meter I have encountered - I rarely miss an exposure if I rely on it.

 

[Peter de Waal]

Leica M5's spot meter

2x Leica Meter MR on M2/3

2x Weston Master III (QLM serviced)

1x Weston Master IV (QLM serviced)

2x Gossen LunaSix F SBC (QLM serviced)

Gossen Luna Pro (still accurate)

Minolta Color Meter IIIF

 

[oftheherd]

My first meter was a Sekonic Auto Leader. It was great. I could use it one handed, it had high and low light settings, and was accurate. After several years it died (but I put in a new cell). But within a couple of years after getting the Sekonic, I got the L-28c2. I still have it. I always wanted a Gossen Luna Pro. I have one. I always wanted a Gossen Luna Pro SBC. I have one.

What I use are the Luna Pro SBC or the Sekonic L-28c2.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

I think today that you'd be crazy to use anything but a modern digital meter. The accuracy, low-light ability, and versatility of them beats old moving needle meters.

I am currently using a Sekonic L-758DR. Its the one you can calibrate to your camera's actual sensitivity and dynamic range, if you shoot digital. Its made my digital exposures much more consistent. The built in spot meter is great as well as the incident metering.

The downside is that the Sekonic is expensive. If you want a good, cheap incident meter, look for a good Minolta Flash Meter IV, as several others have suggested. I have one of those too!

 

[sevo]

I think today that you'd be crazy to use anything but a modern digital meter. The accuracy, low-light ability, and versatility of them beats old moving needle meters.

Accuracy and versatility, yes. But where low light capability is concerned, modern meters don't fare that well, the -0EV to -2.5EV mimimum on current meters is far from impressive - the flash capabilities of modern meters mean they must have a small temporal integration window, which has inevitable impact on their sensitivity. The last generation of silicone photo diode/transistor continuous light only pro meters that preceded the switch to multi-purpose meters had ranges down to -5EV to -8EV.

 

[shimokita]

If I have to get it right, then a spot meter... I use the Sekonic L-758D with the Flashwave III triggers for flash... I am sure that I am not in radio wave compliant in one country or another... for down and dirty it's an old Gossen Luna-Pro with battery adapter rather than the PX13s. I used a Pentax spot meter when I was younger...

It's hard to beat the modern meter algorithms of the new cameras for casual use... I guess there is no market for putting that software in a proper handheld meter ; )

Casey

 

[wolves3012]

For my RFs, which mostly don't have meters, I use a Sverdlovsk 4 or sometimes a Weston III or IV. The Weston V is a good meter but (like the III), I find the scales a bit crowded. In poor light the Sverdlovsk goes further than any circumstances I'm likely to need but the Westons are a bit limited in that respect.