That just decreases the likelihood I'll ever own one. And I'm genuinely OK with that.
As time goes on the prices will continue to rise monotonically so the sooner you buy the better. Remember that you will just have to wait a little longer between buying more lenses than you usually do.
That just decreases the likelihood I'll ever own one. And I'm genuinely OK with that.
I have several GE's, Weston's and others that I cannot recall off the top of head else, in box, last I checked a little of year ago they were all working and can be found on various sites for less than $20, most of mine came bundled with camera I bought. Finding a pretty good used light meter will cost much.
Hand held meters are no longer the bee's knees as they were. Gossens are now cheap if you go looking for them. Start with Ebay. Charity shops also collect them, where they gather dust as they are so overpriced, or get put out for a few dollars and fly out the door, to end up on - surprise - Ebay.
Respectfully, those GEs, Westons and "others" (the hundreds if not thousands of selenium cell meters manufactured until about 1970) go on working, in a way, until one day, bang!! they're gone. Or like my two beloved Weston Master Vs, they slowly but steadily decline to under-, until one day they kick the bucket, and that's it. Shelf queens.
Even at their best they are pretty well good only for so-called "average" conditions - meaning you can use them on sunny days but that's about it. The Westons came with detailed instructions on how to use the adjustable calculator dial to try to work out how to vary exposures (+ or -) to the varying conditions. this never worked for me - I failed maths through school. Or is it rather the Law Of Gravity, best explained as Westons can annoy and frustrate you until you throw them to the ground, and then they stop working.
Another key point. Until fairly recently, Westons could be repaired, but now, no. The era has passed.
I still have one Weston V and a venerable III, a family heirloom bought new by a photographer uncle in, I think, 1950, still working. Sort of. With negative films I add from half to a full stop over, as "insurance".
Hand held meters are no longer the bee's knees as they were. Gossens are now cheap if you go looking for them. Start with Ebay. Charity shops also collect them, where they gather dust as they are so overpriced, or get put out for a few dollars and fly out the door, to end up on - surprise - Ebay.
But they are fun to use. There is nothing more enjoyable than to load a Rolleicord Vb with Tri-X or HP5 or even XP2 and venture out with a Weston round one's neck. Most definitely no getting away from that. Long may it be so.
All this said, we appear to have drifted off-topic here. We should be taking MF cameras and not meters. But then one leads us to the other anyway, for the most part. So.
Well, this is correct.
I have two Gossen Luna Pro, one Luna Pro SBC, and one Minolta Flash Meter IV F.
When i tried to sell one Gossen, nobody bought. My buyers are of the younger generation who think cellphone "light meter" apps are good and accurate.
Sadly, we are both right. The young'uns with their cell phone meters get away with it because one, they are young, cute and fun, and two, they haven't a clue as to what they are doing anyway nor about the results they want, so whatever they get is accepted. Especially so if they are doing B&W, in which case any damn thing they photograph will be seen as "art".
Odd times, but still enjoyable (so the duffer sighs, pouring another glass of red wine).
I do not know if links to firms are permissable here
Whereabouts would I find out what the advantages of a subscription would be?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?