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Adrian
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Username: Adrian
Post Number: 185
Registered: 08-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 11, 2008 - 07:24 am: | 
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I have one of the above, which came in a box of bits. It seems to work, but I'm not sure in which conditions I'm meant to use the blind that slides over the cell. I presume it's for incident, rather than reflected, light (like the Leningrad 4 I was lent which I never got the hang of using...), but it would be nice to be sure!
Thanks,
Adrian |
Glenn
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Username: Glenn
Post Number: 396
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 11, 2008 - 01:42 pm: |
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You are correct in your assumption on the use of the 'blind' - it is for incident light readings. |
Adrian
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Username: Adrian
Post Number: 188
Registered: 08-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 11, 2008 - 03:42 pm: |
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Thanks Glenn, much appreciated. Free Bisix 2 manuals are thin on the ground, and it seemed silly to pay for one for that single question.
Adrian |
Glenn
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Username: Glenn
Post Number: 397
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 06:41 pm: |
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Yes- even Gossen's German site does not seem to list one. Strange as the company is usually very good at supporting their old equipment. I wonder if this meter was marketed under different names in Europe and US? |
Msiegel
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Username: Msiegel
Post Number: 38
Registered: 03-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 - 01:21 am: |
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Have a look here:
http://www.myphotoweb.com/Gossen/pages/Bisix2/bisix2.htm
Scroll down to the bottom and click manual. By clicking into the different sections of the scanned manual (all jpg) you get them enlarged. |
Adrian
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Username: Adrian
Post Number: 190
Registered: 08-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 - 02:49 am: |
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That's great, Martin, thank you very much!
Adrian |
Msiegel
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Username: Msiegel
Post Number: 39
Registered: 03-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 - 09:54 am: |
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You're welcome! |
Glenn
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Username: Glenn
Post Number: 398
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 - 02:42 pm: |
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I have never paid any attention to this meter. Having become curious, I did a bit of digging. I wonder why Gossen produced this model in 1953? It does not give anything extra in the spec range, when compared to the rest of the models available in the mid 50s. The only real difference is the method of 'computing' the expose - the use of the large rotating 'computer wheel' (Gossen's description) with inner rotating data plates, instead of the small side wheel-as on the Sixtomat range etc.
Clearly the Bisix range, was the starting point for all Gossen meters that are designed around the 'computor wheel' system - ending with the superbly accurate Lunasix 3s. So perhaps they were testing the market with a 'new fangled shape'. From articles in the 1950s photographic press - it appears that photographers of the day, were not very receptive to design changes in their favorite equipment. |
