Gossen Variable Angle Spot attachment question...

[Disconnekt]

To my surprise, it came a few days early! The seller was in Ontario, Canada, & shipped it to me on the 19th & it got to me here in Southern California today, so 3 days

Overall very clean, just some very minor dust when you look through it at certain angles.

 

[BrianShaw]

Excellent. That’s fast! Can’t wait to hear your impressions when you start using it.

 

[Disconnekt]

Excellent. That’s fast! Can’t wait to hear your impressions when you start using it.

I may end up doing some night photography with my Sears TLS, even though I have the adapter & a battery for it, I'll just leave it home & take the light meter with me & a couple roll to shoot.

 

[Sirius Glass]

I may end up doing some night photography with my Sears TLS, even though I have the adapter & a battery for it, I'll just leave it home & take the light meter with me & a couple roll to shoot.

I have used this and earlier versions since 1963 for slides.

http://www.cppdh.org/download/jiffy-calculator-for-night-light-exposures.pdf

 

[removedacct2]

Here you go again. The device attached to the Lunasix F on the left is the 7.5 / 15 degree tele adapter whilst the Profi-Spot attached to the Profisix, (Luna Pro SBC) measures 1 / 5/ 10 degrees.

The Profi-Spot requires Gossen meters with the electrical contacts - Luna Pro SBC or Mastersix. These meters are up to 45 years old but if you get a working example they are very accurate. Just a bit of a handful.

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I find this thread as I have been thinking of buying now a Profisix and the Profi-spot attachement.

the story is: I have a Vivitar 230LX and its LX 1° attachment. This one is optical only, no electrical connectors , just a contact to inform the meter that it is connected, so some factor is probably applied.
Anyway the meter itself has died, LCD display has most segment ghosted and my try at easy repair has failed, it would need de-soldering conctats, check electronics and more time than I have.

the point is that these Vivitar LX meters (130,160,230,260) seem to be a rarity. So I was thinking maybe buy a Profisix, there are still many selling around in Europe, and a Profi-spot attachment, but then the attachment is a rarity.... I found one untested and quite expensive.
So I was then pondering to buy instead a more recent device, with similar capabilities, and which will also cost cheaper than a Profisix + spot and even similar price than a Vivitar 260LX. It would be smaller also. But then I really like the optical quality of the Vivitar spot...

this is the Vivitar spot bloc only, compared to a FED-1:

with the exposure meter attached to it, compared to a Salyut ie. similar size a Hasselblad:

this is big, and also I feel like I am the only one on planet Earth with this combo.
I still have not decided, so maybe a Profisix + spot....

 

[Fujicaman1957]

I have used this and earlier versions since 1963 for slides.

http://www.cppdh.org/download/jiffy-calculator-for-night-light-exposures.pdf

Sirius, you wouldn't happen to have a copy of the "Sunset Exposure Calculator" made by the same company would you?

 

[Fujicaman1957]

You might be better off checking out Ebay for a Gossen "Multi-Beam" light meter. It had settings for 30%, 20% and 10% metering angles. It also had the nice feature of using standard "AA" batteries for power.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Sirius, you wouldn't happen to have a copy of the "Sunset Exposure Calculator" made by the same company would you?

This is the version that is the most up to date. The first version has 24 levels, this one has 26 levels. This is what I used.

 

[removedacct2]

Gossen "Multi-Beam"

I had to look up the name.... So it is the Variosix, also called Polysix ....

I have something similar: the Sekonic L-228 "Zoom meter" a variable focal finder lens ~30°- 8° angle, needle on low/high scales and computing wheel. I used it almost always at 8°.Very compact but a CdS cell and it became slower with quite longer reaction time.

My main meter when not needing 1° spot, or for a very light bag, became then a Polaris-SPD100, an excellent meter quite underrated/unknown it seems, by some Aspen japanese company. It's SBC cell, excellent ergonomy, big clear LCD digits display (and does flash metering). I use it with the 10° accessory.

but i really like analog "geometric" displays, rulers, wheels.
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I finally found a Vivitar-260LX, it is on the way.

And I am considering to sell the Polaris and buy instead either a Minolta Auto Meter II with the 10° accessory or like @Disconnekt a Gossen Profisix or even a Lunalite with the 15°/7,5° attachment.