My old pal a Weston Master IV gave up it sensor, so I rummaged around and found an older GE light meter, no fancy name, model number 90w58y1, not sure when it was made, may date back to the 50s as the film is set in ASA with a range of ASA 12 to 800. Has a detachable hood and cover, so with cover on, cover off then last hood off. I have not used it in a couple of years, last was when I shooting with an Argus C3. I have compared it with a Gossen SBC, and matrix metering on a Minolta 800si. Even in tough lighting withing a stop of both. It reads in foot candles. What I like about it is I can use with one hand, the Gossen is fiddley getting the LED to aline up sometime takes 2 hands.
GE light meter 90w58y1
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Probably 1940's. DW-58
Thanks found a few posts about it. Seems it started as an incident meter then in 1946 the hood replaced the incident cover. Does not seem to have a favorable rep, mine is fine.
Can you please clarify what you mean... when the meter was new, or folks' experience with the meter in their elderly years? Those GE meters were professional equipment in their day. Today, I would expect a lot of them to be inop or unreliable or inacurate. If yours is usable, that is very cool!
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Current comments on various sites, some dedicated to light meters. By Ollinger undated.
"It's 3 (bad) meters in 1! Actually it was fine thirteen years earlier when the design was somewhat sort-of new (see the DW-47), but by 1950 it was a Model A in a V8 world. Basically it's just a 2D incident meter with a hood stuck on it to restrict the measuring angle and make it into a reflected-light meter. This was a final freshening of the cosmetics (see the DW-58) before GE dropped it entirely; my guess is that this was sold only to wring every last dollar out of it."
"It's 3 (bad) meters in 1! Actually it was fine thirteen years earlier when the design was somewhat sort-of new (see the DW-47), but by 1950 it was a Model A in a V8 world. Basically it's just a 2D incident meter with a hood stuck on it to restrict the measuring angle and make it into a reflected-light meter. This was a final freshening of the cosmetics (see the DW-58) before GE dropped it entirely; my guess is that this was sold only to wring every last dollar out of it."
Thanks. Interesting…
I like mine, works well, within a stop in tricky lighting, most of the time spot on, even in very low light.
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