Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]From: Jeff <jfrankel@worldnet.att.net> Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 15:27 Subject: [Leica] Suggestion for meter > My Weston III meter finally died. It is probably not > feasible to resurrect it. The question is what meter > should I use with my IIIf? I got a Minolta Spotmeter F a while ago and it seems like a very nice meter. Since I bought it, I have coincidentally heard many positive comments about it from photographers and especially cinematographers, so I must not be the only one satisfied with it. I used it to try to meter for some shots of the Eiffel Tower at night, and lo!... it worked! It is kind of bulky, though (looks like a very small camcorder, and I'm sure a lot of people who see me using it think that's what it is). It cost about $700 here in overpriced France, and probably costs $495 or so in the U.S.--not sure if that is in your price range or not. It has some cool averaging functions that come in handy, plus a backlight for the display and some other interesting features. -- Anthony