Metrawatt light meter

[chip j]

I bought one of these small, sleek units to go w/my new M4 in Germany in 1967. Almost sci-fi looking. It was extremely well-made (at first I thought it was made by Leitz!). It pooped out yrs ago, but does anyone know who made them, please?

 

[AgX]

Simple as that: the Metrawatt company


Metrawatt and Gossen were quite similar companies, though Metrawatt seized manufacture of exposure meters decennia ago.

In the early 90s both companies were bought by the same holding and were merged to Gossen-Metrawatt.


Metrawatt made so many models. Which one are refering too??
For the Leica they made the "Leica-Meter MC", but I would not call it sci-fi.

 

[summicron1]

You can buy either an Mc or MR meter that will work very nicely with your M4. The MR has a battery-operated meter, the MC is solar cell, using light. At this remove either meter is likely to have issues, either with a dead solar cell (MC) or just iffy electronics (MR, both) but if you look around you can find one that works. They are quite accurate and pretty dependable and, at this remove, not horribly expensive.

 

[chip j]

It was small, silver, could fit in your palm & had a viewfinder built-in w/a sliding half-sphere incident disk.

 

[AgX]

I guess you mean the Metrastar:

http://www.v-like-vintage.net/uploads/images/Cropped700/00093760.jpg



(I got some meters with built-in reflex viewer, but still never came across the Metrastar...)

 

[chip j]

Yes, that's it!! What a beauty!!

 

[John Koehrer]

Metrawatt made some early Leica meters too. I wouldn't bet much that they didn't make them all.