On a weekend shoot with others, my meter seemed to be 2 stops out compared with others. Anyone know what pot adjusts the pentax spots y intercept for the scale. Home pentax user forum troubleshooter forum light meter calibration. You can read further about the exposure meter calibration constants. Put the filter over the objective lens of the spotmeter and read the difference in the l. Pentax spotmeter v and luminance questions discussion in exposure discussion started by fl guy.
I just took delivery of a used pentax spot meter analog. Sekonic speedmaster l858du light meter 401858 urceri light meter digital illuminance meter. I got a pentax digital spotmeter and i want to figure out if the readings are accurate and, if not, if there a way to calibrate the meter. Hello, is there a diy way to calibrate pentax digital. Lens calibration software may 23, 2009 am wanting to calibrate a lens or two for 3d imaging software purposes, for estimating lens distortion. This will help me to continue to host this site, buy new manuals, and pay their shipping costs. A few years ago my first spot meter took a bath in a river, but it was rebuilt and recalibrated by pentax. The memory of light photo essay by takumichi seo,featuring works created through his unique sensibilities and the imaging power of his pentax camera. In the asahi pentax spotmeter an ire scale is incorporated for comparison of the. The hole is probably 316 diameter but the photodiode is quite large, its window is probably 18 around.
I have been using a digital pentax spotmeter for the past 15 years. This device fits down inside the asahi pentax spotmeter 211 and the pentax spotmeter iiis px640 battery compartment, accepts the three volts of a cr1632 lithium cell, and regulates the voltage to a. You cannot simply meter any available object, as its reflectance could be significantly higher or lower than neutral gray or zone v. The pentax spotmeter v uses a standard slr pentaprism and full frame ground glass for the viewfinder. That doesnt do you much good in new zealand though. I got a pentax digital spotmeter and i want to figure out if the readings are accurate and, if not, if there a way to calibrate. Archive favorite spot meter photo accessories bags meters tripods etc. The reason i ask is that my spotmeter v disagrees with the spot meter in my canon dslr metering a large mid gray area that filled the frame in both cases and still does so following calibration.
Quality light metric in hollywood has been servicing all my meters for nearly 20 years and in fact i just recently sent george my 2 pentax. Full text of asahi spotmeter iii manual internet archive. And because i like the principle of spotmetering i decided to buy either the pentax digital spotmeter or the minolta m spotmeter. View and download pentax spotmeter v operating manual online.
The photos have to be developed in postprocessing and there are numerous options regarding the software and within the software. A couple of years ago i bought a pentax spotmeter v from a colleague and became interested about the history of pentax spotmeters. Pentax analog spotmeter v calibration hey guys, not entirely sure this is the best place to put this, but i was wondering if theres any way to validate the calibration of an analog spotmeter v, and if its found to be off for recording exposure, a procedure for calibrating the spotmeter for accurate reads. For sale my lovely pentax analog spotmeter v which i no longer need. Would like ask the owner of this spotmeter for your opinions about this spotmeter. Ricoh has announced that it will release the ricoh theta stick tm2 and ricoh theta stick tm3, s. Once you use this tool, you are stuck for life with it. Add that screw and canon causes themselves endless hours of please fix my lense, i dont know what.
I already have one, and the price was right to have a second one as backup. Unfollow pentax digital spotmeter to stop getting updates on your ebay feed. As of 2006 the best meter for any film camera is a calibrated digital camera. Dear all, we know that the k1 is a great camera if we shoot raw maybe the best you can get. The difference is the hole in the mirror and the placement of. Focal features focal runs on windows or mac computers and controls your camera to calibrate. Over in japan, pentax has a couple of new lens wraps and commemorative mugs. Pentax analog spotmeter v calibration hey guys, not entirely sure this is the best place to put this, but i was wondering if theres any way to validate the calibration of an analog spotmeter v, and if its found to be off for recording exposure, a procedure for calibrating the spotmeter.
Pentax has created a kp which supports both infrared capture and everyday photography. There are basically two kinds of spot meters, those. The asahi pentax spotmeter helps select proper filters. I have never heard of a spot meter requiring calibration. Is there a standard method to test the calibration of a handheld spotmeter. I needed to change the battery and managed to drop the battery cover in a stream, gone forever. So i started looking for earlier versions of the spotmeter and found.
Pentax v spotmeter missing battery cap photography. Hello, is there a diy way to calibrate pentax digital spotmeter using another meter as a reference. Ive looked at how much the meters go for nowadays and am shocked. The second group of manufacturers pentax, minolta, kenko assumes that the medium tone is approximately 0. Your sekonic is an incident meter, your pentax is a refelcted spot meter. The difference is the hole in the mirror and the placement of the photodiode. You thus need to spot meter a gray card with the pentax meter in the same light you are taking the sekonic reading in. Let your spot meter do the work alan ross photography. I replaced the bulky gossen pro with the lighter pentax digital spotmeter and then replaced the easy to use compact pentax with the featureladened but heavier sekonic 508. He calibrated my pentax spot meter the analog version got the tiny light illuminating the internal. Viewing screen with highlow light scale calibrations, battery checker mark and 1. Hou to use pentax spotmeter 1970s exposure meter duration. How to get the sweet spot from k1 camera raw pentax slr.
Favorite spot meter photo accessories bags meters tripods etc. Pentax spotmeter v film camera batteries from batteries plus bulbs. Home pentax user forum pentax digital slrs forum lens calibration focus tune software. Replacement batteries for 35mm cameras, flash and film photography equipment. Anyone know of a piece of software to do this, or perhaps how to go about doing it. How do you testadjust a handheld spotmeters calibration. Sekonic l308xu flashmate light meter 405 with deluxe case. View and download pentax digital spotmeter manual online. The slope is fine it seems to be off by the same 23 of a stop on the top and the bottom of the scale. I always use the matrix meter in my slr and shoot in program automatic.
Get the best deals on spot photography light meters when you shop the largest online selection at. Can anyone recommend a good place to get it checked over and calibrated in the uk. Other than cursing, any suggestions how i might be able to get one or is there some sort of alternative. The readings between the two are different by 23 stop. Im thinking of getting a pentax digital spotmeter for learning and better evaluate the shoot scenes. Digital spotmeter camera accessories pdf manual download. Yeah, the pentax spot meter looks at a 1 degree spot, making it useful for.
International light has been offering light meter calibration services since we created the first usamade light measurement system in 1965. Pentax spotmeter v instruction manual, user manual, pdf. Any one know of a company in the uk able to calibrate my pentax spotmeter v light meter. How confident are you of the pentax being incorrect. Quality light metric in hollywood has been servicing all my meters for nearly 20 years and in fact i just recently sent george my 2 pentax spotmeters both zone vi modified for recalibration after a long period of non use.
As i discussed in a previous blog, effective application of the zone system zs really requires the use of a reliable handheld spot meter. Pentax spotmeter v film camera batteries at batteries plus. One stop difference between pentax spotmeter v and soligor. Digital camera pc application software os compatibility. Our full service calibration lab offers iso 17025 accredited ukas.