domenico_foschi Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 I am going in Italy and i need to buy a second spot meter ..Has anybody heard of the Cambron ?It is made in Japan , and sounds like Cambridge camera has something to do with it ,,Any opinion ? http://www.dfoschisite.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_feldman2 Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 Here's a picture from a current e#ay auction. It's a Soligor with a Cambron name badge. Soligor made them for several brand names. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob. Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 I have the "Panagor" branded digital one. A few people have complained about flare on these meters but experience with mine shows you need the sun shining directly on the lens to have any real problem and I can't think of any meter that would not have problems in that situation. One suggestion was to take the thing apart and matt-black paint the inside but I have not bothered. The centre spot is quite accurately defined and testing the meter against my Canon's built-in meter in spot-mode showed very close correlation too. I guess the bottom line is: they work quite well but do not expect Pentax or Minolta build quality. Perhaps if anyone has a top-line spotmeter and the Soligor, they can do a direct comparison? Cheers, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marco_frigerio Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 Ciao Domenico I have a Soligor spotmeter that I bought new two years ago here in Italy for 250 euro...Soligor is in Germany and they are imported by Il Fotoamatore, near Pisa...I'm very happy with this meter, it's accurate, reliable and very intuitive to use (it's very similar to the more famous and expensive Pentax)...feel free to contact me if you need more informations (uburoix@tiscali.it) so we can write in italian, anyway, here we go!!!: l'ho portato con me dovunque e in tutte le condizioni climatiche e non ho mai avuto problemi...btw, can I contact you privately? I'll come to USA in august and I need some informations... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pat_kearns1 Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 Domenico, I bought a used cambron spot meter about 7 years ago and have used it without any problems. The instruction manual listed the manufacturer as Capital. It looks like a soligor with different name plate on it. I haven't any complaints with mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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