[rollei_list] Re: Adventures with light meters
- From: Eric Goldstein <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 19:56:01 -0400
If it were me I'd contact Quality Light-metric about the meter and let
them take a look... I'm thinking they will stand by the work and get
you dead accurate...
My own experience with eBay and meters has been completely positive...
snagged a very clean Luna Pro SBC with all attachments for 40 bucks
years ago... it is within 1/3 stop of my Luna Pro CdS and the built in
meters of my A-1, T-90 and E-10
Eric Goldstein
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On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Allan Derickson <alland435@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When I dusted off my old but only slightly used Rollei 3.5F all functions
> seems to work properly except the light meter. I shrugged and put it off to
> old age and figured I would just use a hand-held meter. After thinking
> about it for awhile, however, it didn’t make much sense. The camera had not
> seen much use and had been stored in a cool dark place so it didn’t seem
> right that the selenium cell would have deteriorated. I nor anyone else had
> ever done any service on this camera but reading my manual the meter is
> user-serviceable to the extent of setting the zero and it shows how to
> remove it. The zero was okay but I decided to take a look to see what I
> could see. The back of the meter has two gold plated posts which fit into
> sockets which also have gold plated contacts. I took a sharpened pencil
> eraser and polished each one and cleaned them with alcohol for good
> measure. I also removed the selenium cell itself which has two gold plated
> contacts. I cleaned and polished these also. After putting everything back
> together, guess what? It reads spot on with my faithful old Gossen Sixtar
> (same as Super Pilot).
>
>
>
> As a side note, I’m done buying meters on Ebay. A couple months ago I
> decided I should really start to learn and use the Zone System so I bought a
> Minolta spotmeter F. It bears a sticker that it was calibrated in March of
> this year by Quality Light-metric in Hollywood. After extensive testing I
> find that it is a stop off. At least it seems to be consistent over the
> range of light levels. I’ll keep it but put my own sticker on it to remind
> myself to double the ISO value. Now my old Gossen uses those nasty mercury
> cells and I’m down to my last couple of my Canadian stash. For the first
> time in 40 years I dropped the darrn thing on concrete. It cracked the
> plastic housing and the cds cell window. I figured well 40 years ain’t bad
> and I sniped a Sekonic L-208 in the last seconds of an Ebay auction. It
> just came and it’s two stops off in bright sunlight and pretty close in low
> light. In other words, not linearly off. So it goes back. The Sixtar is
> still working so I’ll use it til it expires.
>
>
>
> Live and learn.
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