Acnowledgements
I'd like to thank everyone who put so much great information on their websites. Special thanks to Bruce Quick, who kindly scanned the missing pages for the Spectra Combi-500 manual; Lee Brilliant, for letting me use photos of his Rhamstine Electrophot M-S-B; Michael White for his GE Model 213 candlemeter, the Ordover Family for their Bertram Electro Bewi Standard; D C Inall for the Ranger 9 Zone System accessory dial; Chuck Foreman for the great Dorn Prixcolor; Larry Curtis for scanning his rare Harrison Light Corrector Attachment manual; Anssi Puisto for clearing up the nomenclature of the Gossen Ombrux/Blendux; Jack Freymuller for some great documentation and vintage advertising; Pat Walsh for the GE PR-2 tear-down information; Ed van der Aa for Gossen info in particular, among other goodies, Angus Reid for the Leningrad 8 meter documentation in English, Bill McGinnis for the DeJur Critic, Mike Weeg for the General Electric DW-68 manual, John and Nancy Lamz for the Norwood Director B with extra documentation, and Peter de Waal for notes on Weston Master IV variations.
Links - Meters - in English
- John de Vries's Norwood Director site — Tons of information on the venerable Norwood Director. Great info, great photos, but you have to dig (and have sharp eyes) to find things
- Sekonic Light Meters Data — from the company itself: last year of manufacture and battery info on selected (but not all) meters
- Westonmeter.org — a great collection of information on the Weston Master line (and some others)
- Powerhouse Museum Collection: Exposure Meters — a little info and a few pics. But lots of stuff besides
- Gossen's Home Page — the home page for the famous maker. Has some info (in tortured English)
- Gossen Collection — a lot of nice info on Gossen (English and Dutch)
- ExposureMeters.net — a collection of meters from the same person who runs the Gossen Collection (above)
- Photoethnography — great website with some really nice meters and data
- 3106.Photography — summary info on selected German meters
- Argus Meters — the few, the proud, the imported
- Barry Levinson's collection — summary info on his collection
- Vitalspirit's Collection — not much info but nice photos (German / English)
- Scott's Photographica — a good look at the original Weston 617. Also check out his transparent Weston 650 Senior
- Alfred's Camera Page — includes a few Russian meters
- Jan Boettcher — includes some meters
- Anssi Puisto — a nice flickr collection, with an emphasis on European meters
Links - Meters - in French
- Light Meter Museum — Nice photos but not much information
- Meter collection — just a lttle bit of info but some nice photos
- G. Even — a French collection
Links - Meters - in German
- Peter Mischur's Camera Collection — a few German and Russian meters
- Harald Freytag's Camera Collection — includes a few meters
- Austrian Collection — not much info but nice photos
- Vitalspirit's Collection — not much info but nice photos (German / English)
- Selenium Meter Collection — just photos
Links - Meters - in other languages
- Gossen Collection — a lot of nice info on Gossen. (English and Dutch)
- Exposure Meter Gallery — Nice photos, almost no info (I believe this is Swedish)
- My Norwood Director — a site dedicated to the Norwood line (Japanese)
- Russian Photo History (meters) — the best site I've seen about Russian meters (Russian)
Links - Other
- Virtual Camera Museum - graciously provided me with the Zone Dial for the Weston Ranger 9.
- Mike Butkus's Manuals — Butkus.org - free, online manuals on selected models
- Fotolinks - Manuals — Fotolinks.dk - links to all kinds of manuals, books, etc. Some free, some not
- Craig Camera — (out of business)
- Iconomecanophiles du Limousin — Reference books on meters (in French and English)
- Exposure Meters Book — looks good if it's still available
- Converting a Weston Ranger 9 to Use Silver Oxide Batteries — cheap and fairly easy, if you can handle a soldiering iron