Digital Light Meter (Gossen Digisix GO 4006)

[pryan9]

Has anyone used this before? It has overall decent reviews on amazon. I wanted to pick up a digital hand-held meter to use mostly with my medium format film camera.

Any insight would be much appreciated.

thanks!


http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006OAJB/ref=s9_simp_gw_s0_p23_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=10TTX4RW14FR7TJYE564&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938631&pf_rd_i=507846

[JWright]

Gossen has been making light meters for a very long time and at one time were the preferred meter of professional and studio photographers. I don't know what kind of quality they're putting out these days...

[DC Fan]

Writing as the owner of a Gossen Digisix: (http://www.photographyreview.com/mfr/gossen/light-meters/PRD_135859_3115crx.aspx) it's the smallest, lightest and least expensive non-needle light meter on the market. Its low price probably comes because it doesn't have some of the fancier data and readout functions of other meters. You have to turn a dial to get exposure readouts and the method of changing settings can be a little clunky. However, the meter does a fine job of getting the incident readings that are important to much photography. Also, the sale price listed by Amazon is very good. And, there's nothing wrong with using a simple meter that gets the job done.

Note that Gossen also sells a Digiflash version of the meter for flash exposures. (http://www.amazon.com/Gossen-DigiFlash-GO-4007-Analog/dp/B0000AE6A7)