Another new toy...

John Allen

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Bought this off ebay. I've spent about an hour taking readings with it and then testing those with my dslr. As some of you no doubt know, Weston used Weston numbers instead of ASA on their old meters and you had to make allowances for it. This meter takes a bit more adjustment than it did as new. At least, when it's used with a digital camera. Instead of setting the film speed to 80 and the camera to ISO 100, as would be normal with this meter, I had to set it to 64. ISO 400 on the dslr matches 250 on the meter. Not bad for a meter that might be older than me. This photo was cropped and resized in lightroom but the exposure is what was recommended by the Weston meter and has not been edited.

Before I got this one, I was planning on buying a couple of newer meters, one of which would hopefully be accurate enough to use with my new RB67. Now that I've got this hunk of metal and tested it, I think I'm good.

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Nice John I was planning on picking a old light meter up myself to use with the TLR. I have found in my test I get the best readings from my old Pentax SP2 than from my DSLR's. Its a bit of faffing about and extra weight but seems to give better results in exposure on the film. So I'm wondering that you may not need to adjust your metering with this when you come to film.
 
I used a phone app, which agreed with my digital camera at the time, and was close to my Weston - yes, I had one too. I ended up just using the phone app.
 
Looking good, John. An incident meter might be a useful addition though for your still life work.
Thanks, Pete. I plan on picking up a Master II Invercone or buying a second Master II with one included. I might also pick up a couple of other light meters like the two I mentioned in that other thread - Weston Master IV or Sekonic L-398 Studio Deluxe. The Weston came with an incidence cone. I'm not sure about the Sekonic.
 
Nice John I was planning on picking a old light meter up myself to use with the TLR. I have found in my test I get the best readings from my old Pentax SP2 than from my DSLR's. Its a bit of faffing about and extra weight but seems to give better results in exposure on the film. So I'm wondering that you may not need to adjust your metering with this when you come to film.
Weston meters came into production before there were standardized film ratings, so they invented their own. Those numbers don't quite match ASA film speeds, so you have to make an adjustment, no matter how accurate the meter.
 
I used a phone app, which agreed with my digital camera at the time, and was close to my Weston - yes, I had one too. I ended up just using the phone app.
I looked into the phone apps. They even have ones to test the CRI of your lighting source. In the end, I decided that a meter would suit me just fine. If I was planning on using the meter when I was out and about then I would definitely look into the phone apps to cut down on what I had to take with me.
 
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