This came up the other day on Photrio where @RalphLambrecht wondered about why his Gossen light meters drain their batteries while they’re supposed to power down automatically. Now, I happen to have one of those Gossen meters powered by a 9V battery, so I figured I could have a peek inside to see what might be wrong with his.
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Fixing Sekonic L-358 and NP spot meter wrong readings
Years ago I picked up a second-hand Sekonic L-358 and have used it ever since with great pleasure. One of those things you just turn on and it works – provided you feed it a new battery once every few years or so. Recently, I got a 5 degree ‘NP Finder’ for it, which turns this incident light meter into a proper spot meter. However, today I ran into a disconcerting problem: totally wrong meter readings. What’s up with that? And can it be fixed?
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