Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/13

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Subject: Re: [Leica] light meters
From: Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 18:40:23 -0700

The Gossen LUNA STAR F2 has all of the features you list below.

http://www.bogenphoto.com/gossen_lunastar.htm

I have the F2 and really like it. Use it all the time.

Jim

At 10:45 AM 7/13/98 -0300, you wrote:
>
> - When they were making it more compact than its siblings, they left out
the 
>   separate, always-visible ISO display.  You have to push a button to
confirm 
>   which ISO the meter's set for.
>
> - I'd prefer an even faster turn-on time (I often use the meter in 
>   whip-out-of-pocket, turn-on, read, turn-off, back-in-pocket mode.)
>   The short turn-on time while the battery check is visible can seem 
>   interminable when I'm particularly impatient.
>
> - Does there exist a meter which has an `aperture-preferred' mode?  I often 
>   have an aperture in mind and would like the meter just to tell me what 
>   shutter speed is appropriate, but with this meter one has to take a 
>   reading then either do some mental arithmetic or click shutter speeds
up or 
>   down.
>
>   Clearly this particular phenomenon is not a concern with a good ol'
analog 
>   meter...
>
> -Jeff Moore <jbm@instinet.com>
>