Re: Minolta Spotmeter F
Very nice shot, Mark! keith whaley Mark Erickson wrote: Jeff, I have a Minolta Spotmeter F. It's pretty nice. The feature that I use a lot is the memory that allows you to take several readings. It shows the results graphically on the LCD display. As William Robb mentioned, it makes zone system calculations really easy. Here's an example taken with my Century Graphic with the aid of my meter: http://www.westerickson.net/mark/misc/PennerLake.jpg --Mark
Re: Minolta Spotmeter F
The Spotmeter F has an excellent reputation. About the only thing Minolta does well is they make good meters. Personally, I'd prefer a Minolta meter for studio work with flash, but for work with negative film in natural light I think a Pentax spotmeter is head and shoulders better. Hold out. --Mike
Re: Minolta Spotmeter F
Here's an example taken with my Century Graphic with the aid of my meter: http://www.westerickson.net/mark/misc/PennerLake.jpg Ahh, that's a beautiful shot. You have good tone. (He has good tone was Louis Armstrong's highest praise for a fellow musician.) --Mike
Re: Becoming OT: Jazz (Was: Re: Minolta Spotmeter F)
Robert Soames Wetmore wrote: (He has good tone was Louis Armstrong's highest praise for a fellow musician.) --Mike I prefer a dry, dirty, nasty tone - like Steve Grossman's. Or maybe rich and fruity and nasty like Harry Sokal...or big and nasty and scratchy like early Gato Barbieri. But never just good! Rob We weren't talking literally about tone preferences, we were talking jazz quality. Ya just had to be there, Rob. Good from Ol' Louis was more praise than you can imagine. Just 'good'? No. Really, REALLY good! g And, not just musical 'tone' but everything about how the musician played. keith whaley
Re: Minolta Spotmeter F
Jeff (and Mike), Thanks for the complement. The Century Graphic is a 2.25x3.25 press camera. It will take pictures with sheet film, and Graflex rollfilm backs and Mamiya RB67 backs can also be used to hold film. I use rollfilm backs. I took this shot with a Schneider Xenar 105mm F3.5 lens, Cokin red filter (yeah, I'm cheap), on Kodak T400CN. Pulled it into the computer with an Epson 2450 scanner, did a little digital dodging and burning, and finally virtually printed it on high-contrast paper (i.e., cranked up the contrast a bit). I only wish there were more clouds. I'm also interested to hear why Mike thinks the Pentax meter is better than the Minolta. The one comparison that I can make is that the Minolta meter has a plastic body and doesn't feel all that rugged. Both Pentax meters feel pretty bomber to me. If I weren't cheap, I'd probably by a Zone VI modified Pentax meter. But I'm cheap. Except for my MZ-S, FA* lenses, etc. H --Mark Hi Mark, Nice shot. Great tonality range. Is the Century Graphic a 4x5 or a 21/4x31/4 camera? My exposure problems seem to arise in tricky lighting situations using colour reversal film (Agfa RSX) and a Gossen Lunalite meter. I'm in the process of acquiring a Minolta Spotmeter F. I hope it doesn't elude me. Jeff.
Re: Minolta Spotmeter F
I'm also interested to hear why Mike thinks the Pentax meter is better than the Minolta. I'll withdraw the comment. I don't know the specific Minolta meter under discussion. I just have lots of memories of being irritated while futzing with over-featured Minolta studio meters, and lots of memories of the satisfying, straightforward Pentax spotmeter I used to own. Funny and true story: a woman I knew once who taught classes in how to use the top-of-the-line Minolta studio meter had to bone up on its operation and features before every class she taught. The meter was so complicated she couldn't remember everything about how to work it from one class to the next. --Mike
Re: Re: Minolta Spotmeter F
Don't worry Jeff.We won't snipe yaG Dave Begin Original Message From: Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm in the process of acquiring a Minolta Spotmeter F. I hope it doesn't elude me. Jeff. End Original Message Pentax User Stouffville Ontario Canada http://home.ca.inter.net/brooksdj/ http://brooks1952.tripod.com/myhorses Sign up today for your Free E-mail at: http://www.canoe.ca/CanoeMail
Re: Re: Minolta Spotmeter F
Not an ebay sale. I already Paypal'd the guy. Hope he doesn't stiff me. Jeff. PS: We'll keep you posted. - Original Message - From: David Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 12:39 PM Subject: Re: Re: Minolta Spotmeter F Don't worry Jeff.We won't snipe yaG Dave Begin Original Message From: Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm in the process of acquiring a Minolta Spotmeter F. I hope it doesn't elude me. Jeff. End Original Message Pentax User Stouffville Ontario Canada http://home.ca.inter.net/brooksdj/ http://brooks1952.tripod.com/myhorses Sign up today for your Free E-mail at: http://www.canoe.ca/CanoeMail
Re: Re: Minolta Spotmeter F
Sorry for the double post. My computer hiccupped. I've used a few rolls of Agfa RSX II 50 100. Love it. The secret is in the processing. Jeff. - Original Message - From: Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 2:22 PM Subject: Re: Re: Minolta Spotmeter F Not an ebay sale. I already Paypal'd the guy. Hope he doesn't stiff me. Jeff. PS: We'll keep you posted. - Original Message - From: David Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 12:39 PM Subject: Re: Re: Minolta Spotmeter F Don't worry Jeff.We won't snipe yaG Dave Begin Original Message From: Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm in the process of acquiring a Minolta Spotmeter F. I hope it doesn't elude me. Jeff. End Original Message Pentax User Stouffville Ontario Canada http://home.ca.inter.net/brooksdj/ http://brooks1952.tripod.com/myhorses Sign up today for your Free E-mail at: http://www.canoe.ca/CanoeMail
Re: Minolta Spotmeter F
On 4 Dec 2002 at 7:44, Jeff wrote: What about landscape photography with Positive film? That's what I need the Spotmeter for. Jeff, The Spotmeter F has a few functions that are specifically there to support colour positive shooting. It has two buttons, Highlight and Shadow and the action of these buttons is to add an exposure offset which will pull metered highlights or shadows into the range of most slide films, quite handy in some instances. Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications.html
Re: Minolta Spotmeter F
Hi Rob and all other members who helped me decide, The meter is on it's way. It's going to miss Hanukah, but I'll have plenty of time to learn it's intricacies. I know about it's features, I'm just going to have to learn how to use them. That's a half of the fun in photography. Cheers, Jeff - Original Message - From: Rob Studdert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 5:49 PM Subject: Re: Minolta Spotmeter F On 4 Dec 2002 at 7:44, Jeff wrote: What about landscape photography with Positive film? That's what I need the Spotmeter for. Jeff, The Spotmeter F has a few functions that are specifically there to support colour positive shooting. It has two buttons, Highlight and Shadow and the action of these buttons is to add an exposure offset which will pull metered highlights or shadows into the range of most slide films, quite handy in some instances. Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications.html
Re: Minolta Spotmeter F
On 3 Dec 2002 at 21:39, Jeff wrote: I'm trying to locate a Pentax Digital Spotmeter, to no avail. Meantime I see many Minolta Spotmeter F's in the $225~$250 range. How good is this meter? How does it compare with the PDS? Excellent meter, very accurate, good tight spot with low flare, good finder, illuminated LCD in finder EV or F stop, LCD on body with comprehensive read- out, digital and pseudo analogue scale, real-time F-stop/speed calculations, flash/ambient, memory and averaging, one AA battery lasts for years, wider measurement range than Pentax Digispot but larger. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications.html
Re: Minolta Spotmeter F
Jeff, I have a Minolta Spotmeter F. It's pretty nice. The feature that I use a lot is the memory that allows you to take several readings. It shows the results graphically on the LCD display. As William Robb mentioned, it makes zone system calculations really easy. Here's an example taken with my Century Graphic with the aid of my meter: http://www.westerickson.net/mark/misc/PennerLake.jpg --Mark
Re: Minolta Spotmeter F
Excellent meter, very accurate, good tight spot with low flare, good finder, illuminated LCD in finder EV or F stop, LCD on body with comprehensive read- out, digital and pseudo analogue scale, real-time F-stop/speed calculations, flash/ambient, memory and averaging, one AA battery lasts for years, wider measurement range than Pentax Digispot but larger. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications.html Thanks Rob, I have one almost pegged. We'll keep you posted. Jeff.
Re: Minolta Spotmeter F
- Original Message - From: Mark Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pentax-Discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 12:09 AM Subject: Re: Minolta Spotmeter F Jeff, I have a Minolta Spotmeter F. It's pretty nice. The feature that I use a lot is the memory that allows you to take several readings. It shows the results graphically on the LCD display. As William Robb mentioned, it makes zone system calculations really easy. Here's an example taken with my Century Graphic with the aid of my meter: http://www.westerickson.net/mark/misc/PennerLake.jpg --Mark Hi Mark, Nice shot. Great tonality range. Is the Century Graphic a 4x5 or a 21/4x31/4 camera? My exposure problems seem to arise in tricky lighting situations using colour reversal film (Agfa RSX) and a Gossen Lunalite meter. I'm in the process of acquiring a Minolta Spotmeter F. I hope it doesn't elude me. Jeff.
