Hi, everyone. It's been a while since I've written to the list, but I
browse through every now and then when I can make time. I have two
Pentax Spotmeters I'm looking to sell:
Analogue: $160 US plus shipping. Includes hand strap
Digital: $270 US plus shipping. Includes case, hand strap
On March 6, 2003 08:21 am, Brendan wrote:
I'll slave with my MZ-3's spot meter on a 400mm lens
for now.
How big are the spots? I was thinking of doing the same thing with the Zx-5n
but with the *ist I'm leaning on getting that instead.
Nick
Five degrees isn't much of a spot. IMO, it's inadequate for critical
metering in many instances.
David A. Mann wrote:
I have a Sekonic L328 meter with the 5-degree spot attachment. It'll do
anything and everything, even spot flash metering. Its not that great at doing
low-light with the
Hi,
About 3 weeks ago I bought a Sekonic L-608, which is probably the top
multimeter at the moment (it's certainly the most expensive).
It's the first spotmeter I've owned, except for the 'spot' meters in
my Contax RXs. Using these convinced me of how useful it is to be able
to meter off a
Thanks Bob. It will help a bunch. The only other meters left for me to
look at now are Minolta. We'll see.
Len
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From: Bob Walkden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 2:50 PM
To: Paris, Leonard
Subject: Re: Spotmeters, a new question
Len wrote:
I have decided to retire my old Wein flashmeter, my Gossen Luna Pro SBC, and
give up trying to find batteries for my Pentax Spotmeter. What I want to do
now is to replace all three with a single meter that will do it all. Which
combination meter would you recommend? Because of
Can anyone tell me what type of battery is needed in a spotmeter V, I have
an opportunity to pick up a spotmeter cheap, the seller does not know if its
working, it needs a battery in the lower compartment and there is a battery
in the upper compartment which most likely aslo needs replacement.
In a message dated 12/11/2001 8:40:46 AM US Eastern Standard Time,
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Can anyone tell me what type of battery is needed in a spotmeter V,
The Spotmeter V takes 76 type silver oxide batteries - Everready EPX76,
Duracell MS76, Maxell SR44, Panasonic G13, Rayovac RS76,
AM
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Subject: Spotmeters
Can anyone tell me what type of battery is needed in a spotmeter V, I have
an opportunity to pick up a spotmeter cheap, the seller does not know if its
working, it needs a battery in the lower compartment and there is a battery
in the upper
Would these be the same batteries for a 1/21? Just won one on ebay.
Bill, KG4LOV
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My 3/21 Spotmeter takes a 22.5 volt battery (#10048411 from Radio
Shack) that looks like a smaller 9v battery. The smaller round battery
is a 1.5 volt (#10282945 from Radio Shack). You can
Don't think so. I think the later meters take the button cells.
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 20:01, you wrote:
Would these be the same batteries for a 1/21? Just won one on ebay.
Bill, KG4LOV
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My 3/21 Spotmeter takes a 22.5 volt battery (#10048411 from Radio
Shack)
I searched radio shack website and cannot find the catelog number
you mention for the small batter (#10282945), and if I remember
correctly, it's not 1.5v either, more like something 1.4v or
1.3v. The model name is either 640 or 640A. I'm not sure.
Does anyone know where to buy this battery?
Now you both have me curious. What is a 3/21 and a 1/21? No
such numbers on mine.
Len
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From: Bill Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 8:01 PM
Subject: Re: Spotmeters
Would these be the same batteries for a 1/21
Well. doggone it! You made me pull out my Pentax Spotmeter and
look in the battery compartments. Inside the large one it
clearly says 9-v. There is no voltage given for the small one,
but the compartment for it is the door for the 9-volt battery.
They were both mercury batteries, the small one
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From the 3/21 manual: The 3/21 meter is powered by two batteries--one
1.3 volt mercury battry and one 22.5 volt dry cell. The mercury
battery operates the high range (H) and the dry cell operates the
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From: Bill Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 8:01 PM
Subject: Re: Spotmeters
Would these be the same batteries for a 1/21? Just won one on
ebay.
Bill, KG4LOV
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My 3/21 Spotmeter takes a 22.5 volt
While on a battery search for some quite old equipment a few months ago, I
learned that Radio Shack carries a large number of batteries that can be
ordered by phone, but which do not show up on their web site.
Otis
Tonghang Zhou wrote:
I searched radio shack website and cannot find the
Hi Len ...
The 3/21 meter was made in 1960. Here's a brief description of it from
the AOHC:
This early spotmeter was introduced in February 1960 in Japan and gave
birth to the well known family of Pentax Spotmeters, still on sale
today. Also known as the Honeywell Pentax 3°/21
I'm about to begin the process of evaluating/purchasing an incident light
meter for field use. Needs to be pocket size and accordingly, be able
to take a bit of punishment. Any thoughts on: features? models? etc.?
Otis Wright
Tom Rittenhouse wrote:
Using any meter (including the one in
: Otis Wright, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 6:56 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Spotmeters (Was: Learning To make a Photograph)
I'm about to begin the process of evaluating/purchasing an
incident light
meter for field use. Needs to be pocket size
Though, strictly speaking, spotmeters are not incident light meters, you can
put an 18% grey card at the subject position and read the light reflected
from it and get pretty much the same results.
Len
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From: William Robb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday
Hi,
this is what I use:
http://www.sekonic.com/Products/L-398M.html
it's called a studio meter, but I've never used it in a studio.
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Bob
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Tuesday, June 05, 2001, 12:56:03 PM, you wrote:
I'm about to begin the process of evaluating/purchasing an incident
To: Otis Wright, Jr.
Subject: Re[2]: Spotmeters (Was: Learning To make a Photograph)
Hi,
this is what I use:
http://www.sekonic.com/Products/L-398M.html
it's called a studio meter, but I've never used it in a studio.
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Bob
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Is it necessary to buy a spotmeter with a sighting scope? These are
extremely expensive, but without one I do not see how you can accurately
point it at a spot you want to meter. Without being able to accurately
line up, you could only do general or incident readings surely? This is
why I
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From: Rob Brigham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: June 4, 2001 3:13 AM
Subject: Spotmeters (Was: Learning To make a Photograph)
Is it necessary to buy a spotmeter with a sighting scope?
These are
extremely expensive, but without one I do not see how
William Robb wrote:
I have seen hand held light meters with spot attchments. These
give about 5º angle of acceptance, hardly a spot meter at all.
Dont discount incident light readings. Metering the light
falling on the subject, rather than the light reflecting fron
the subject is far more
Shel wrote:
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Try this some time: go out on a bright, sunny day and focus
on a dark or medium colored car, but don't include the bright
highlights from the chrome trim in the metering. Then move the
camera slightly to pick up the bright specular highlights. I'll bet
the exposure set
, and now, having
started all-manual and been briefly seduced into AE by the LX, prefer not
to use AE in non-standard situations. The trick is to recognise the
non-standard situations. I do use the 'spot' meter in my cameras quite a lot
now that I have them - they're the first spotmeters I've used
Using any meter (including the one in the camera) requires
some knowledge and common sense. A spot meter makes sense
with a view camera and the zone system.
However, I think that an incident light meter is better for
general photography. It gives you an 18% gray reading every
time. If you want
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To: Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: June 4, 2001 12:38 PM
Subject: Re[2]: Spotmeters (Was: Learning To make a Photograph)
Hi,
I wrote the following earlier today to be a reply to Shel's
post. Some
of it has been superceded by other people's replies, but I
thought I'd
send
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From: Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: June 4, 2001 9:39 AM
Subject: Re: Spotmeters (Was: Learning To make a Photograph)
William Robb wrote:
I have seen hand held light meters with spot attchments.
These
give about 5º angle
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From: aimcompute
Subject: Re: Spotmeters (Was: Learning To make a Photograph)
William Robb wrote:
Dont discount incident light readings. Metering the light
falling on the subject, rather than the light reflecting
fron
the subject is far more accurate
Called Pentax Colorado on Friday and asked for a manual for the
Spotmeter V. Bada Bing! two days later it's here - and it's a
freebie. No invoice. While it's an original manual, it looks like
it's been on the shelf a while, so there's some very slight fading
along the edge of the covers, and a
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