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Battery for gossen variosix f2 86/10/2023 Think of all these wonderful Leica rangefinder models before the M5 and M6. There are still working cameras around that simply have no light meter. Introduction: Why using an external light meter? The magic of light: If your camera has no built-in light meter (such as the M3 with which this photo was taken), an external light meter is helpful or even necessary. Let’s start to explore the territory of light meters. But there must be a reason why these presumably old-fashioned devices are still around. Form the 1960s onwards, more and more cameras offered built-in, mainly even though-the-lens, metering. They told their owners what shutter speed and aperture value to choose at a given film sensitivity. Light meters (or, as they are sometimes also called, exposure meters) were standard. Once they were in almost every photo bag, and every photographer used to know how to work them. They could not be more different yet they serve the same purpose. This review presents two exemplary and ever-popular two members of this species: The modern TT Artisan Two Dials Exposure Meter and the vintage Gossen Lunasix F. There is more than one good reason to use a light meter. Hand-held or attachable, historic or modern? Some thoughts on light meters
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