Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think you guys just like old junk! ;-] - -----Original Message----- From: Marc James Small [mailto:msmall@roanoke.infi.net] Sent: Thursday, January 14, 1999 3:10 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Weston Master V At 02:38 PM 1999-01-14 -0800, Jim Brick wrote: >I have a drawer full of non working Weston Master meters. But my Sekonic >Studio Deluxe and Pentax Spot meter, bought at the same time as the first >Weston Master, is still going strong. I will never fix these Westons. I >cannot conceive of a possible use for them nowadays. Well, the simple reality is that selenium matches the response pattern of photographic emulsions more closely than do later chemical formulations, so there is the big reason. Westons are immensely easy to find, are quite inexpensive, and are readily repaired and calibrated. My father bought a 735 in 1939. I still have it today, and it is still my standard meter. (Sure, sure, I have more modern ones -- but the damn batteries are always dying on me.) Vivat Weston! Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!