I hear you, Keith. Being a cheap Pentax shooter, I have a few Pilot IIs for ambient light. They're old, but all except one is accurate. You can pick these up for about $15 at swap meets.
-Lon
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Are you ready for this? I use a Sekonic L-28-c2 Studio Deluxe. It is also an analog, and is not good for low light, only measuring down to EV4 at ISO 100. But, no batteries, and sturdy indeed... It's lasted all this time, so...
keith whaley
Bob Walkden wrote:
Hi,
Monday, March 24, 2003, 7:03:52 PM, you wrote:
What would folks recommend in a handmeter, spot or ambient?
I use, and like, the Sekonic L-398M. It runs, $161.00 at B&H. It's an analog type but is extremely accurate and does not require a battery.
I would recommend an incident meter. With a spotmeter you need to be fairly confident that you can judge how close to 18% grey the thing is that you're metering off. Personally I'm just not up to it, and life's too short to learn.
I also have an L-398M, and I agree that it's a good meter. There are some downsides to it, though. First, it doesn't meter to very low levels. Second, you need to use little metal slides if you're shooting outdoors in normal daylight. These are very easy to lose, and the small metal loop/handle/thing on them breaks easily so they become quite difficult and annoying to extract from the meter.
I haven't used my L-398M for a while. I bought a Sekonic L608 zoom spot/indcident/flash/reflected super-duper meter. It is really excellent, but would be even more excellent if it was smaller. It relies on batteries. When they fail they fail quickly with little or no warning, so it's advisable to have some spares around.
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