Yep, mine is the 240 XL, (not LX). The must have given up on the motor and gone to the digital display for the 240. It is a great meter, and it still functions perfectly. Paul
Tom Rittenhouse wrote: > I had the one with the motor driven analog dial (Vivitar 230LX?). It was > really neat until your used it outside in the winter. When cold the motor > pulled too much current for the IC. After the third replacement IC, first > two were under warenty, I gave up on it. I still think it was the neatest > meter I have ever seen. Too bad they didn't engineer it properly. > > Ciao, > graywolf > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 9:39 PM > Subject: Re: OT: What kind of Hand Held Meter do you use? > > > As I mentioned the other day, I have a near twenty year old Vivitar > > 240XL. It's a multimeter: flash, averaging and incident. It has a digital > > readout and provides an EV number in tenths. You have to use a > > conventional, circular slide rule type scale to determine exposure at a > > given film speed. It can do cumulative flash exposure. And is capable of > > both incident and averaging flash metering. I also have a Pentax > > Spotmeter V. I am quite fond of both. > > Paul > > - > > 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 . > - > 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 . - 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 .
