The selenium meter in my Rolleiflex 3.5F (ca. 1968) is quite accurate - much more so than f:16 rule. All the best! Raimo Personal photography homepage at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen
-----Alkuper�inen viesti----- L�hett�j�: Frantisek Vlcek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vastaanottaja: Amita Guha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> P�iv�: 27. marraskuuta 2001 0:44 Aihe: Re: way OT: does Adorama repair TLRs? >Sunday, November 25, 2001, 11:34:38 PM, Amita wrote: >AG> I have to go to Adorama tomorrow to get my 120 >AG> film developed. Might there be a chance that they >AG> could fix the light meter in my Yashicamat? > >Well, I don't know about Adorama, but I know few things about >Yashica(mats), they use selenium meter and very big percentage of all >selenium metered cameras have nonworking meters by now, or at least >unreliable. Most selenium meters are aged and became unreliable - >nonlinear (not that they were much linear at the start<g>). So even if >it is fixable, it might not be useful much except in bright light, >where you can use f/16 rule anyway, or an external meter. The very few >selenium meters that _are_ linear and reliable even after 30 years of >use is probably only the L398 incident meter... it works even where >other selenium meters don't. I don't know how they did it but it works >:) > >But of course, this is my opinion, you might want to have the meter >working for whatever reasons. > >Frantisek - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
