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     Glenn Tinkerer Username: Glenn Post Number: 1074 Registered: 07-2006 Rating: N/A |
An overly complicated solution, more of an 'add on' than a 'built in' and the Weston Master III or IV would give far more accurate and useable readings for the professional of the day. Never really sure where they thought the market would be for this contraption - optically you could not fault them, however, the high cost pushed them out of the reach of all but the very deep pocketed amateur and the limited light reading ability of the meters did not endear them to the professional. Thank heavens the 'Spotmatic' appeared when it did. Although on that subject, the TTL system in the original Praktica Mat could give far superior results under certain lighting conditions. Sadly, the East German ethos of building down to a price produced quirky mechanisms and strange faults which condemned the camera to oblivion. Still my lump, one of two purchased by the Company in 1966, still produces images that are on a par with any TTL body that uses film as its medium. |