exposure meter advice welcomed

Alistair, dont even think about Westons. I still have one somewhere, it was my back-up meter 25 years ago. OK generally but pretty hopeless really in low light and needed constant professional fettling to keep them accurate. Turn them at right angles and you get a different reading!

Anything from Sekonic will be very good. Incident reading is essential and if there isn't much price difference go for one with flash capability as well, even if you dont need it now.

I use a Minolta meter and they really are worth looking out for on Ebay.

Hi Ken,

I've been thinking about a Minolta III meter for some time, funnily enough as a replacement for my dead Weston. What model do you use ?
I'd only want to use it for ambient light readings when using a... dare I say it... Mamiya 645. It will only be for occasional use so I want something cheap, very easy to read, but accurate so I don't waste lots of Velvia 50 unnecessarily.

Its been years since I last used that camera, so I'm hoping it will be fun dusting it off again.

Cheers,

/Ian

When I want incident light readings on the dSLR I use the Expodisc
Works very nicely as a white balance tool as well.
Matt

I too have a Weston Master and invercone which I have not used for years. I would not now use it.

More recently I have used a Minolta 3 and a Pentax V Spotmeter. I can recommend both of these as accurate and reliable.

I had a Minolta Flash IV until some b****** stole it and couldn't afford to replace it so got the Autometer III. Its very accurate and you can store a number of readings then average them out. A couple of design problems: there is a stick on plate to stop the 'ASA' and 'up' & 'down' buttons being pushed accidentally. Its all to easy, too, to push the 'f no./EV button' and read the wrong thing. You soon get used to it though.

I have the 10 degree spot attachment which I have used once in 20 years!

I used to use Mamiya 645s, the first one came as a replacement for my C330 so I got the WLF and quickly discovered that to take a portrait format picture you had to stand at right angles to the camera and view an upside down image in the viewfinder! Argh!!!!!!!!!!!