Gossen seems not making high end exposure meters any more. They only have a few models now. B&H sells the Mavo spot and the Mavolux but those are light meter and not exposure meter as they don't display in f/stop, shutter speed or EV.
The used market of fully functional meters is killing, making it difficult, to sell new meters
Maybe it's because Gossen meter are build well and last a long time. My Lunastars are all 40+ years old and still work as well as they ever did. The last meter I bought was a Sekonic andthat only because I wanted the feature of being able to analyze the flash duration more closely.
The solution that has been tried for this for other markets was a program to buy back the old, still useful product significantly above market rate, fill it with concrete as to make it unusable. It helps if you say the old product was damaging everyone's lives in some way. Then the newly made products sell in greater numbers and at higher prices.
My Gossen Digisix from 2010 is still going, fits in a shirt pocket, very handy. Sometimes the battery contact gets a little loose and I have to reseat it. Thin plastic, wouldn't want to drop it, but never have. I recently acquired a Minolta Spotmeter which is a bit bigger and more featureful. I also have a Gossen Lunasix that doesn't see much use as its both bigger than and lesser-featured than the Digisix, although it does take a more common battery and could handle more abuse.
The Sekonic light / exposure meters (semantics aside, the two terms are freely used interchangeably, unless you are referring to colour temp meters) .
Well, I need help with one light meter - I received a broncolor FCC on loan for flash work .
I have no idea how ot works ????
It would be interesting to discover what FRACTION of the photographers on this forum even own a handheld lightmeter for photographic purposes.
Then, to also learn what fraction of all photographers with handheld light meters purchased them within the past decade.
A sadly 'declined market' accounts for withdrawl of products of a genre, be it Kenko or Gossen.
Consider yourself lucky.I still use my trustworthy 1945 Weston Master II. It may be old but it still is surprisingly accurate.
I noticed the Gossen line up because I was looking to see how much they sell the Starlite and if there is a new version only to find out they don't make meters of that level any more.
and there is a new kid at the block now: Reveni Labs in Canada. Their last meter, the Lumo, is a true gem, incident and flash, even flash duration analysis. I bought one at the beginning of the year and it quickly turned into my go-to meter.
B&H still lists the Gossen: Digisix 2, Digiflash 2, Sixtomat F2, Digipro F2, in addition to all the expensive Mavo stuff for industrial use. Those would satisfy a lot of needs. I suppose if you compare them to the Sekonics, there are some high-end features Gossen doesn't have (spot, wireless flash integration), but the meters Gossen does make are perfectly good.
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