Yeah but the repair cost far exceeds what I'm willing to pay for fixing
these things. Not that its excessive compared to what photo gear normally
costs to fix, but I just don't think old Selenium meters are a good repair
investment. I have a Sekonic L-508 and a Gossen Ultra Spot II (which took me
FOREVER to save the money for when I was in college!). Both are really
better meters than the Westons and neither of them uses batteries quickly so
I have never had one die in the field so that I was left meterless.
I think the old weston meters are neat and I have a couple of them I have
collected at flea markets for $5 or so each, but they're obsolete. I use a
spotmeter 99% of the time when I use a handheld meter and I use it 100% of
the time in my OM-4 bodies. That said, I would love to find a working Ranger
9. I have always thought that was a COOL meter for some reason. That and an
SEI photometer. Those come up on ebay occassionally but they never work and
are expensive.
If I were not poor, I'd collect old stuff like that. I have a lot of
expensive stuff but most of it was bought when I was in high school or
college, living off my parents, so that I could use money I earned on gear.
Since graduating college, I have never earned much money so I only buy
things I can get CHEAP. My digital SLRs are the only exception to that I've
made and that's cause I needed them for work that paid, and they paid for
themselves pretty fast. My film cameras are for my personal work, not for
money earning, unfortunately :(
--
Chris Crawford
Photography & Graphic Design
Fort Wayne, Indiana
http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio
http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com My latest work!
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On 12/27/07 1:31 AM, "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Chris Crawford wrote:
>> I have an OM-1 but I don't like it and I've not encountered an old Weston
>> that still works properly.
> I have a Master IV and a V, one works and one doesn't. You can still buy
> the cell or get repairs.
> <http://www.apug.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-39391.html>
>
> Moose
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