Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:47 PM 1999-03-18 EST, Bill Rosauer wrote: >I think you're referring to an extinction meter. Never used one and don't >know many people old enough to have used one. The original Leica Meter made >by Metrawatt (not the later MC or MR for the M's) which slides into the >accessory shoe would have been contemporary to the IIIc. If you're >interested, I do have one of these available. > There are actually a slew of Metrawatt meters made for the LTM cameras: see my article in VIEWFINDER some years back or the most excellent article from the German Leica Historica's VIDOM a few years earlier. The first Metrawatt Leicameter dates from 1939: I lucked into one of these last year and, of course, George Milton of Quality Light-Metric immediately overhauled. It is refreshing to find someone who can cheerfully restore a 60-year-old meter to proper and accurate functioning. The Postwar LTM Leiameters are smaller, the Leica-Meter 3 actually being a cute little thing of no great size at all. And Leica DID market an extinction meter, in the early 1930's. The history of Leica light-meters and, of course, of the Contax inbuilt metering, is most fascinating. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!