Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/13
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At 11 Jul 1998 10:10:12 EDT, dick gladden <Bcde210@aol.com> wrote:
> Any advice out there for a small, cheap, pocketable light meter?
Yet another voice suggesting the Sekonic 308B...
My post on this meter to a photo.net thread may be accessible via:
http://db.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=0009R8
(I'm still not sure whether that's a reliable, reusable URL above.)
My only quibbles with this puppy (anyone know of a meter with the 308's
advantages which would be more to my taste on these minor issues?):
- When they were making it more compact than its siblings, they left out the
separate, always-visible ISO display. You have to push a button to confirm
which ISO the meter's set for.
- I'd prefer an even faster turn-on time (I often use the meter in
whip-out-of-pocket, turn-on, read, turn-off, back-in-pocket mode.)
The short turn-on time while the battery check is visible can seem
interminable when I'm particularly impatient.
- Does there exist a meter which has an `aperture-preferred' mode? I often
have an aperture in mind and would like the meter just to tell me what
shutter speed is appropriate, but with this meter one has to take a
reading then either do some mental arithmetic or click shutter speeds up or
down.
Clearly this particular phenomenon is not a concern with a good ol' analog
meter...
-Jeff Moore <jbm@instinet.com>