Dennis
[size=2]Hello everyone!
I’m writing to those of you who still occasionally consult the [color="#006400"][font="Impact"]Weimarlux CdS light meter[/color] :) :)
It was simply my first light meter back when I was fifteen, and it almost never let me down, except......
Over the years, it happened time and again that the spring steel wire which drives the light-limiting pinhole aperture (range selector) would slip out of the small hole in the aperture intended for it. So I’d unscrew the meter, thread the wire back in, and that was that for five seconds, five days, or sometimes even five years.
Today, this repair didn’t work out so well. After all these years of intensive use, and despite being ‘lubricated’ about 10 years ago with the stearin from a tea light, the aperture simply no longer slides as smoothly as it should in its plastic groove – which has obviously become somewhat worn over two and a half decades of use.
So what to do? Based on experience, Belis’s advice was of little use to me in the semi-darkness anyway. Consequently, I simply threw the pinhole aperture out altogether, thereby doing away with the “daylight metering range”, and now have a thoroughbred twilight light meter. :ph34r:
Why am I telling you all this? Well, I don’t really know.
Perhaps it’s meant as a thank you to the GDR photography industry for the quality product, combined with some belated suggestions for improvement :D
For the sake of completeness, and so that this fact is finally made public:
You shouldn’t simply throw the Weimarlux down from a height of 7 metres from illegally climbed hunting hides. That’s exactly what happened in 1990 to a mate of mine. That incident marked the abrupt end of his Weimarlux CdS.
How much did it cost? Something like 65 East German marks?
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michael-kielgmxnet
Yes, the Weimarlux was my first proper camera too, and it served me well. However, I did eventually replace mine with a newer digital model.
Wolf_XL
...well, the Weimarlux certainly isn’t a bad thing – it’s just that you really ought to avoid any rough behaviour. The interior is so delicate – once you’ve seen it, you wouldn’t even dare to cough in the presence of a Weimarlux... ;-)
