I have had both. My old Luna Pro took mercury batteries and I dumped it when they no longer became available. I even had the spot attachment, however, the mirror silver disintegrated.
The 398M, as you said is reliable and it travels with me and my Pentax Digital Spotmeter. I would, actually rather have the analogue meter as I am colour blind and have trouble seeing the leds in bright light. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Walkden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Shel Belinkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 5:32 PM Subject: Re: Incident Meter > Hi, > > the best that I know of for your purposes might be the Gossen Luna > Pro, although they're not cheap even on the used market. There are > several variants, so you'd need to do a bit of research before making > your final decision. > > The meter I used for years before getting the all-whistling amazing > dancing Sekonic was (still is sometimes) the Sekonic Studio Deluxe > L-398M. They are cheap, robust, accurate, reliable and entirely analogue - > no batteries. They only measure down to EV4 at ISO 100, so they're not > great low-light meters (the Gossen goes down to -4 or -6 I think), and > you have to insert metal slides to baffle the light in bright > conditions, so it's not as simple as it could be and is more fiddly > than it should be. > > Other than that it's fine. But I'd probably recommend a Luna Pro over > the L-398M. > > --- > > Bob > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Thursday, April 11, 2002, 12:28:20 AM, you wrote: > > > Some pending work may best be served by using an incident meter. I'd > > like some recommendations. I want something simple ... no zooms, no > > spots, no flash, don't need a gazillion functions. Just a simple, easy > > to use, accurate incident meter that can lock the exposure reading. I > > don't mind buying used ... in fact, it's preferable. Suggestions? > - > 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 .
