Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/02/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:04 PM 2/9/2007, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: >The meter is a Leica product. I have one buried in the bottom of my >defunct gear drawer. It is more than 50 years old and the selenium >cells have died. The winglike extension is a low light booster. I >have no idea what the code is. Selenium cells almost never die. It is far more likely that part of the rather complex mechanical linkage broke, Larry. George Milton at Quality Light-Metric can fix you up in short order. I use a Weston 715 as my daily meter, and that one dates from 1938. Selenium matches the response levels of chemical emulsions more closely than do later formulations such as CdS or the like. Stick with selenium! It is the way to go! Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!