John Allen
Well-Known Member
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.
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.
