Light meter problem!

[Krzys]

Soligor Digital Spot Sensor - 9V battery version, not mercury

I just got this meter in the mail from ebay.

This item is in remarkable shape, everything is functioning
and in working order, clean inside and out, I would rate it a 9½

Yeah sure...when I point it at one spot in the sky I get a reading of 0.0..

...then 60.4...then 37.2

7.5
67.9
95.7

just random numbers, always beginning with the first reading '0.0'

It takes a 9v battery and I don't think they have looked at it and that it does not work at all. So I have been jibbed...again?

 

[Mats_A]

I feel your pain, sort of.
I bought two 10€ Weston light meters on eBay. And I got exactly what I paid for. One was totally dead and I got a refund. Other is moving and showing some random readings.

Now I'm saving for a Sekonic. New or newish.

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Mats

 

[Krzys]

It is stuffed. I put a lens cap on and it still gives random readings. It does not function as a meter. Bloody hell.

 

[Chan Tran]

I think the meter is supposed to read up to 17 or 19. Your very high readings are sure problems with the meter.

 

[Eric Rose]

Send it back and see if you can get a used Sekonic 558. Outstanding meter.