Hi guys,
Once again an item at my local camera shop is tempting me :)
This time it's a Pentax digital spotmeter. At the moment I use a Sekonic L328
with the 5-degree spot attachment. The only problems I have with it are
parallax error at close distances, the fact that I can't read the EV scale through
the viewfinder, and it bottoms out at EV2. Oh, and the display is not backlit.
After playing with the Pentax a little the only problems I found are that I'm too
used to the 1/10th stop resolution of the Sekonic, and that it takes a weird
battery (Sekonic takes 1xAA). 1/3-stop readout is a pain when I can only set
my cameras in 1/2-stop increments (I'm nitpicking). I also noticed that even
though the spec says EV1-20 it will display down to EV0 (or does it just say
"0" when the light is too low?).
It's also quite expensive but as its selling at about 1/3rd the current NZ retail
price I'm getting just a little tempted :) Also, the 1 degree spot and true TTL
readout will be handy at times.
I'd like to hear from some of you who've used this meter and could add some
good/bad points to help me decide whether it's worth adding alongside the
Sekonic (I am not going to sell it as its a great ambient/flash meter as well).
Cheers,
- Dave
David A. Mann, B.E. (Elec)
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
"Why is it that if an adult behaves like a child they lock him up,
while children are allowed to run free on the streets?" -- Garfield
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