New To 4x5 Photography - Spotmeter Suggestions

[GregY]

By the dial I mean This
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All of the meters I mentioned can display the LV number so you make a dial just like that with the zone scale replacing the IRA scale. Now you can use any of the other meters take a measurement and get the readout in LV (EV @ ISO100) then you can set that value on the dial.

CT.... It makes no difference & it's really sidetracked the discussion here.

I don't say which way is better but what I am saying is that the dial sells. More people like the dial and that what drives the price of the Pentax meters up.

CT they're not made anymore. Use what you like. Who knows who uses what? "More people like the dial" is just an internet opinion. A few posts back you said you preferred the Minolta Spotmeter M ....where's the dial ?

"Yes I did buy the Minolta Spotmeter M in the early 80's for $300 instead of the Pentax Digital Spotmeter for $270 or the Spotmeter V for only $149..... And I agree I like the Minolta much better."

 

[Chan Tran]

CT.... It makes no difference & it's really sidetracked the discussion here.


CT they're not made anymore. Use what you like. Who knows who uses what? "More people like the dial" is just an internet opinion. A few posts back you said you preferred the Minolta Spotmeter M ....where's the dial ?

"Yes I did buy the Minolta Spotmeter M in the early 80's for $300 instead of the Pentax Digital Spotmeter for $270 or the Spotmeter V for only $149..... And I agree I like the Minolta much better."

I do prefer the Minolta as I don't need any computation of the dial or even the Minolta digital processing power. What I do want is accurate LV readings. However, I found that more people like the Pentax and the reason is the dial. The Pentax is no more accurate than the Minolta (at least it has less resolution) but they are sold for more in the used market even though when new they are less expesive.
So since more people like the dial I am thinking of selling the dial by itself.

 

[BrianShaw]

I can’t wait to find out who gives up first.

 

[GregY]

I can’t wait to find out who gives up first.

Me (leaves shaking his head....). & how about that Richard Avedon guy

 

[gbroadbridge]

Me (leaves shaking his head....). & how about that Richard Avedon guy

That put a smile on my dial

 

[Lachlan Young]

The IRE scale is considerably more competent and useful than any zone scale. IRE 1 indexing (at box speed) is where the zone-obsessed will end up anyway after wasting lots of materials on pointless testing, without ever daring to admit it. Basic sensitometry is much easier and faster to learn today than the zone system ever was - and you understand very quickly that incident and spot meters are neither superior nor inferior to each other, but that spot meters are rather more dependent on the operator understanding what they should be pointing them at.