Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Douglas Interesting thought. I usually use the 508 for individual or group shots and perhaps not usually in the zones that you mention. I presume you are referring to the reflected EV which is from +3 to +19.9. The incident if of course better at -2 to +19.9 and I use the incident a lot with the Hassy. What is the Gossen EV range for reflected readings? Simon Douglas Cooper wrote: > Yes, you're right: I'd forgotten about those other features, and they can > be handy. *But* I insist that the spot meter is a bit of a dog. Unless > you never meter in Zones 2 and 3. It simply has no low-light > sensitivity. Sekonic admits this: the EV specs are abysmal. > > And for something that's really just a glorified incident meter, I think > it's way overpriced, and heavy. > > > DC > > At 12:31 PM 10/10/00 -0700, Simon Lamb wrote: > >I have found the L508 to be very accurate in spot meter mode. As for other > >features, it has all the features you could want to use such as multiple > >metering measurements stored in memory and then easily producing an average, > >the ability to provide EV readings instead of fstop and shutter speed, the > >zoom spot meter which is useful for very precise measurement (and it is > >accurate), the ability to store two ISO speeds and easily see what effect a > >different film speed would have on either fstop or shutter speed. >