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, Peter de Waal for notes on Weston Master IV variations, Miguel for the Voss M-6, William Lampman for the Photrix Small-Spot, Mike Dimov for the S&M A-3, Michael Vahldieck for the Gossen Super Pilot manual, Don Graf for background information on the Weston 650, Daniel Lenel for additional information and corrections regarding the Horvex and Metrawatt, Jaap Besterveld for the Carl Zeiss, Lunasix 3, and Yashica YEM-55 meters, Charles Lent for the scanned Cambron (Capital) EF-1 instruction manual, Michael Golubin for corrections and information regarding some Russian cameras and meters, Gary Cowans for an improved copy of my Paton Palec meter instructions, and Richard W. Holzman for info regarding the Sekonic L-164 family of underwater meters.
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
- Photo But More — good info and big, beautiful photos, and the Google English translation is very readable
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