On 13 Dec 2001 at 23:50, Frantisek Vlcek wrote: > Tom wrote: > TR> About the best meter for hot lights and incident metering is the Sekonic TR> > Studio Deluxe meter in its various guises. The current one is the L-398 I > > I can only recommend the Studio Deluxe. It's maybe _the best_ selen > meter around. Suprisingly, even pretty old meters are still very > accurate. Drawbacks: no low-light sensitivity (it's selen, remember, > no batteries), goes to E.V. 5.5 maybe, not much less. Pluses: no > batteries, rugged, small. Excellent for the Acoustic Photography > Guild.
Not one selenium meter that I have (external or internal) is accurate any longer (if it works at all), the selenium photo-cells are well known for loosing their sensitivity over time, your meter must have got stuck in a time warp :-) Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications.html - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
