Sekonic Studio Deluxe Analog Light Meter
Added 2025-01-08 23:21:36 +0000 UTCNo Batteries and No Fuss! Always my favorite light meter... so let's take a close look at and inside the Sekonic Studio Deluxe II light meter, truly a marvel of simple design and 20th Century spare no expense rugged construction. Enjoy!
Comments
Wow-very cool!!!
Markintosh
2025-01-09 17:00:39 +0000 UTCYou had me at 3D - LOVE stereoscopy <3. I used to just take pairs of photos (on an old top-down 'preview' [ie, a lot of guesswork!] Elca, maybe - my mum still has it, it was hers originally) moving aside a couple inches (or more for super-stereo, etc.) - will dig them out and put them in the viewer [or swap them and do the cross-eyed method :)]. Also had/have a cheap splitter (never found a Leica) for action shots (chromatic aberration city but still pretty cool).
Grant Urismo
2025-01-09 05:10:58 +0000 UTCI love that you're showing this off. I've borrowed or had one of these for most of my career. It's the most user friendly for lighting a stage for video.
Brendan Denney
2025-01-09 02:13:57 +0000 UTCFantastic video! My favourite photography activity is to use a 1950s Stereo Realist camera with a 1960s Westen Master V light meter to make 3D slides. Back in the day I used them all over the world, but the cost of slide film these days is prohibitive, so I now use a Fuji W3 and do it digitally, but it's not the same.
David Peaker
2025-01-09 00:11:11 +0000 UTCI had a weston master 5 in highschool (late 60s) that worked well for me in both the amateur and semi-pro stuff I did. Pretty much all I shot was Tri-x so either 400 or 1600 (when I pushed). I actually saw 'fading' of the selenium cell in my hand-me-down master 4 that I had been using which prompted me to buy an actually *new* 5. Lots of metal and solid. I had the opal lens addon that I used a little. But this seconic looks really nice!
Gary Oliver
2025-01-09 00:01:00 +0000 UTCLoved it - I used to mess with my parents box of camera goodness - I can smell it all again now :) Still have the Kodak No. 1 AUTOGRAPHIC KODAK JR. in original shoulder strap/waist-slung case, within arms reach [I'm covered in dust now...] Thanks! x
Grant Urismo
2025-01-08 23:56:24 +0000 UTCthank you fran. I own a modern digital battery powered sekonic light meter. I have never seen the inside or used an analogue light meter.
jmk
2025-01-08 23:31:44 +0000 UTC
