A few light meters I found in a drawer today

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Hi I finally got around to getting as many of my Dads lightmeters together today and I managed 11!

Weston Master II
Western Master V
WesternMaster S511
Western Cine Exposure Meter
Nebro Visual Exposure Meter
Electro EW1 Super Bertram Standard
Stitz Exposure meter
MV exposure meter
AVO exposure Meter
Gossen Sixtronic
Gossen Lunasix 3 with variable angle attachment

The only one I can not recognise is one that looks like its an MV exposure meter a close up of the makers mark is below, I really should have taken a photograph of the whole thing *** DOH!

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The whole collection bar the Lunasix 3.

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I've used a few of those over the years.
All I can say is...
Thank God for modern meters
 
Bring back memories they do:)
 
Now thats just OCD. Ebay here you go.:D
 
Virtually worthless!

I ran through ebay looking at the prices and they aren't selling at all!

Its a real shame as they are part and parcel of our photographic history.
 
pepper said:
Virtually worthless!

I ran through ebay looking at the prices and they aren't selling at all!

Its a real shame as they are part and parcel of our photographic history.
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The Weston Master II is part and parcel of my current (and hopefully future) photography.

The Gossen Lunasix often gets a decent price on ebay.

Garry Edwards said:
All I can say is...
Thank God for modern meters
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Why? You don't need to be a rocket scientist to work one.


Steve.
 
Steve Smith said:
The Weston Master II is part and parcel of my current (and hopefully future) photography.

The Gossen Lunasix often gets a decent price on ebay.



Why? You don't need to be a rocket scientist to work one.


Steve.
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When I became interested in photography buying ANY kind of meter was out of the question.
My very first meter was an extinction type - basically you compare what you can see against a benchmark, brilliant in theory but useless in practice because the human brain compensates for brightness...

Next up was the Weston Master, it's successor, the Weston 2 was current at the time but far too expensive for me. Brilliant meter if the sun was shining (in which case I could guess accurately enough not to need it) but very unreliable at low light levels. All of the selenium meters are poor in low light, when they are most needed.

So... thank God for modern meters.
 
Garry Edwards said:
When I became interested in photography buying ANY kind of meter was out of the question.
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Me too. The meter was the guideline printed on the film box, Sunny 16 and my "experience", or inspired guesswork. I used a few meters over the years, but never owned one until I got an F2 with a DP1 head much later.

I haven't actually shot without any sort of metering for a very long time now, but I took my DSLR out a few weeks ago and guestimated the exposure just to see if I could still do it. I was very close to the meter reading when I checked it.
 
My father was a weekend wedding photographer for most of his adult life. During weekdays he was a central heating system designer.

Sangmo Weston not only made meters but they also made central heating timers and controls.

The Sangmo Weston representative would visit my father one or two times a year and each time he would give my father a new light meter and take away the old one.

Quite a nice perk of the job really!


Steve.
 
The Weston Masters are still good meters and the Lunasix 3' does sell for good money, but guess which ones are the keepable ones? Yup the only ones worth selling.
 
pepper said:
Virtually worthless!

I ran through ebay looking at the prices and they aren't selling at all!

Its a real shame as they are part and parcel of our photographic history.
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Family history too, bet you'll be gutted ten years after you flog 'em;)
 
I'm gutted selling a lot of them now! I've sold quite a few cameras from his collection and have put it towards digital cameras for the grandkids. They'd never use the film cameras so I decided to buy them digital cameras with the profits, that way they can remember him now.
 
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