Krikor Maralian, Elmwood Park, NJ replaced the selenium meter in my 3.5 F a year ago. It agrees with my Weston Master IV which had its selenium cell replaced and was calibrated by Quality Light Metric, Hollywood, CA in 2007. In turn the Weston agrees within a half stop with my Luna Pro F (analog reading).
I have always had good results with the Weston Master IV and the 3.5 F meters. I also use a Pentax spot meter usually with large format where I take the Zone System a bit more seriously. So I wanted to know if one can take general incident reedings with the TLR meters and have good results or is the diffusor just something to 'complete' the ever ready case like the appropriate tools in the boot of an MG TD.
Rob On Sep 3, 2009, at 2:59 PM, Carlos Manuel Freaza wrote:
They fail due to age Marc, they lose precision. Three years ago Todd Belcher advised me about this issue, he wrote me that even old stock new cells tended to fail and it was the reason he no longer sold replacement cells. Our member John Wild is replacing Ian Parker in the Rollei Club (Ian Parker is still a Rollei Club emember) and perhaps he knows something about new cells. BTW almost four years ago when my 3.5F came like new from California (Harry Fleenor) the lightmeter worked fine.Carlos--- El jue 3-sep-09, Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:De: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx> Asunto: [rollei_list] Re: Meters and Film Para: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Fecha: jueves, 3 de septiembre de 2009, 3:30 pm At 01:57 PM 9/3/2009, Carlos Manuel Freaza wrote:I have sometimes used the diffusor on my 3.5Flightmeter, up to theselenium cells started to fail two years ago.First, Carlos, it is extremely unlikely that your cell "failed". F&H used cells made by Gossen, and these are really high-quality cells and are quite well sealed. Selenium cells almost only fail from water leakage. As long as they remain sealed, they will have a life of more than a century. Second, you probably have a misaligned or broken linkage. Selenium cells need a fairly complex linkage to multiply their electrical output and these linkages can be fragile. Third, I believe that new cells can still be supplied for the F meters. At least, the Rollei Club on Jersey was still hawking them a few years ago. Marc msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir! --- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_listYahoo! Cocina Encontra las mejores recetas con Yahoo! Cocina. http://ar.mujer.yahoo.com/cocina/ --- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org- Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list
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