A used lightmeter is quite cheap these days. Get a Gossen Lunasix F, for instance. Or one of those electronic meters from Minolta. You might get one for perhaps 50 USD. It's much better for the job. Anyway - I bought a K-01 as soon as the hit the markedplace last year. I was very disappointed - since I found out I couldn't live without an optical viewfinder. I soon got a collapsable hood for the LCD, which helps a little in bright sunlight.
I still prefere using my K-5/K20D for most stuff, but for panoramas the K-01 is very nice, since it has the direct veiw turned on all the time. So I'm keeping it. The image quality is excellent - and I can still use all my fine Pentax lenses. So, if you can live without the optical viewfinder - buy a K-01. As for the lightmeter - I'd rather exchange the 67 for a 67II - they are not very expensive these days. The only problem is getting high quality scans - this is a MUST IMO, if you want to seriously compete with 16 MegaPixel digital images. As I can't afford an Imacon (Hasselblad) scanner, I get my negs scanned in Germany. But I'm still having trouble getting good enough scans. Pro scans made in Denmark cost appr. 125 USD for each frame!!! If I had to make a living from photography, I'd get a 645D - or a Phase One camera. But I don't :-) Regards Jens -- Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself. On Jan 13, 2013 10:00 "DagT" <[email protected]> wrote: > Den 13. jan. 2013 kl. 04:07 skrev Mark Roberts > <[email protected]>: > > Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > > >> IMO, a good hand-held light meter does a much better job of being > >> a > >> light meter than any compact camera does. > > > > Well, yeah. But it can't double as a camera when need be. :-) > > > > My light meter doubles as telephone :-) > I simple use an App for iPhone called "Lightmeter". I works fairly > well. > > D yearstagT > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
