Digging through the closet today I found my Gossen Pilot light meter (which is nearly 40 years old).
Back when I shot film I sometimes tried to use it in incident mode (there's a dome that slides over the aperture) but it usually disagreed with the meter in my Nikon FTN by about one stop. (It wanted me to underexpose.)
The Nikon had been recently calibrated and gave good exposures, so I quit using it in incident mode and just used the reflected mode for cameras with no meter.
I thought it'd be nice to adjust it correctly. The obvious way would be to use it in reflected mode to meter my 18% gray card, but I can't find the card. Probably in a different closet.
So I took a noontime incident reading and adjusted the meter to agree with the "sunny 16" rule. Interesting that I ended up with +2/3 stop more exposure, close to what I remember with the Nikon and Ektachrome.
Anyone see any problems with this calibration procedure?
-js
