![]() Puzzled, I played with the meter and soon discovered the needle had somehow become magnetized. I took an incident reading with my Pilot and knew immediately it was wrong for a partly cloudy day. Just slightly off-topic: I had a weird experience with a Gossen Pilot 2 meter in 1991 while photographing in a Paris cemetery with a meterless Leica and Kodachrome film. A special case was supplied that has space to store the invercone and filter - very neat and smart looking! It also needs an ND range filter that fits under the Invercone. They're still made I believe, but are very pricey new.Īddendum: If you need incident metering, the Weston III takes an older design of Invercone that's unfortunately not so easy to find. Having said that, I have a neat Sekonic L-398 that works very well. Even then, some older CdS types took 625 mercury cells that can't be got nowadays. If you don't fancy a Weston III, then I'd stick to more modern CdS or silicon sensor models. The same goes for many other makes and models of Selenium powered meter rendering them a poor bet in the accuracy/reliability stakes. I have several Weston IIIs that work perfectly, while nearly every Weston IV and later model I pick up is either dead or dying in the cell department. It also uses a Selenium cell that's much more robust than later models. It was the first Weston to be calibrated in ASA/ISO speeds rather than the proprietary Weston ratings. I think a Weston III just about fits in the under 3" category. I know you've a liking for vintage gear Kent.
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