[rollei_list] Re: OT: Lightmeter
- From: "Allan Derickson" <alland435@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 07:58:11 -0700
I have the same little Sekonic but my most accurate meter is my old Gossen
Super Pilot. It's on my last set of the now banned mercury batteries,
however, that I got from Canada several years ago. When they finally die
I'll look for something newer.
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> I bought a brand new Sekonic L-208 lightmeter; it's the simplest
> lightmeter you could imagine, but it's very compact and you can handle
> it with one hand, it has a silicon photo diode as light receiving
> element . I needed a small lightmeter because the very complete Gossen
> Luna Pro F is too big for some situations (it's bigger than the Rollei
> 35). I don't use lightmeters very much, I use experience and exposure
> tables in general, however they are really useful for indoors
> photography with natural and artificial light.
>
> This little lightmeter has two interesting points:
> 1) It comes with a shoe to fit it in the camera accesories shoe if you
> want to do it, this way you measure the reflected light almost from the
> lens position, the lightmeter shoe has three holes to align it with the
> lens. The measurement angle is 33º.
>
> 2) The shutter speeds scale has marks for 1/5, 1/10, 1/25, 1/50, 1/100,
> 1/200, 1/400 and 1/800sec beside the regular numbers and the f stop
> scale has intermediate marks between the regular numbers. They help for
> a more exact exposure setting if you have old cameras like the 2.8C ,
> 'cord IV, Voss Diax IIa RF, Contax II etcetera with some shutter speeds
> using the older numbers.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0blZgtwUVKQ
>
> Carlos
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