Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- ---------- Orinal message---------- <Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 06:19:58 -0800 <From: "Gib Robinson" <robinson@sfsu.edu> <Subject: [Leica] Sekonic 508C < <Artnur Leyenberger wrote: < <1) thinking about getting an incident meter and maybe a< spot meter. I played with a Sekonic 508 at a camera <store last weekend. It is digital, incident, and spot <(1-5 deg.). Any comments on this meter from people <using it or lusting after it :) < < <Arthur, I have a L508 which I am trading back to Sekonic (Mamiya) for the <508C (cine version) because I have found that the incident and spot meter <readings on the 508 are not in sync with each other. I can get the meter <repaired, but the two meters can not be adjusted separately on the non 'C' <version. You might want to include the cine version in your explorations. < < --Gib <<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Gib, You are right. I just check my 508L in several situations and I've found a difference of maximum of 0.3 E.V. between incident and spot. I'm not sure that is critical as well as your own experience with one meter is essential. Bernard bernard.degaute@village.uunet.be