Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/23

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Subject: [Leica] Re: SEKONIC
From: Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 15:53:45 -0800

At 01:23 PM 1/23/00 -0800, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>	I found a 
>Gossen Luna-Pro digital F.  !!! It looks identical to the former but has that
>letter "F." and a PC thing on the side for your sync cord. And cost me
$220 USD.
>And doesn't read a third to a half stop low. And still takes ONE AA
battery. And
>doesn't need a cord to take a flash reading.And has an improved belt case.
And
>fits in your top shirt pocket and you don't feel it in there. And I know
how to
>use it already but as a VERY easy learning curve. The white dome shifts in
front
>of the sensor for ambient flash or continuous light readings... shifts
away for
>reflective 25 degree angle flash or continuous light readings.
>Other flashes I was looking at I assumed when you take the white dome off you
>get a reflective reading meter. I thought wrong. I'm sticking with Gossen.
>Mark Rabiner
> 

I use a Gossen Luna Star F. A killer meter. Will compute filter factors for
you. The reflected mode is deadly accurate. It reads exactly and precisely,
to the exact 1/2 stop that my Hasselblad 203FE built-in meter reads. And
the resulting Velvia transparencies are absolutely dead on. Hold the button
down, scan the scene and get the main reading plus the light ratio
displayed in analog form (the best way). In the incident mode, it matches
my Sekonic Studio Deluxe exactly. And a flash meter that will not only read
flash, flash ratios, and any variation of flash that you have, but will
tell you how many "multiple pops" are required to obtain a desired exposure.

All this and "Instant on".

Jim (also sticking with Gossen) Brick