Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/06/02

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Subject: Re: Re[2]: in-camera metering
From: Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 21:16:28 -0700

At 09:48 AM 6/2/97 PST, you wrote:
>     Hi Donal,
>     
>      I have been looking for a right meter for a while.  I have had Gossen 
>     Luna Pro Digital in mind.  It doesn't have the flash meter function.  
>     Have you compare your Seconic to Gossen?  
>     
>     Thanks,
>     David
>
>
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I'm not Donal but I'll in stick my $.02 worth. I use a Gossen Luna-Star F
(current model is the F2) and a Sekonic Studio Deluxe. The Gossen not only
does flash & ratios, normal ambient, mixed, but you can enter filter
factors, bellows factors, anything that changes the amount of light that
reaches the film, which will automatically be computed into the reading.
That way you don't have to remember to compute it yourself, manually, after
you take a reading. I suspect that the Sekonic digital & the Minoltas also
do this. I have had the Sekonic Studio Deluxe meter for decades. It doesn't
use batteries. It's always there. And it always works. I mostly use the
Gossen. I use the Sekonic as a backup when the Gossen battery gives up, and
I don't have a spare. I also use it as a sanity check when I'm having
trouble believing what I'm reading with the Gossen. Neither the Gossen or
the Sekonic have ever let me down.

Jim