James, The meter I've used for years is the Minolta Auto Meter IVf. It's simple to use. Once a reading is taken you can scroll through f stops and shutter speeds very quickly. It shows a range of stops from f1 to f90, speeds from 30 min to 1/8000 second and an ISO range of 3 to 8000. It also has Cine frame rates and works as a corded flash meter. They can had on eBay for around $200.
A spot meter would be handy to measure shadow areas and highlights if you're looking to split the difference or favor one or the other. Otherwise you can you take a reflected measurement off of a gray card and go with that. -Brendan --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Once I have a P6x7, I will probably not have a > metering prism and will therefore > need to purchase and use a handheld meter. Never > having done this before (I > started playing with photography well into the age > of in-camera metering) I have > little idea of what I need or how it works. If I'm > largely going to be doing > landscapes, am I right to assume that a reflective > meter would be best? How much > will a half decent meter set me back? It may be > cheaper to buy a TTL metering > prism. > > Any advice appreciated as hand held metering is a > mystery to me! > > James > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
