Opinions on Soligor/Elicar spotmeter please.

[pete_andrews]

I recently bought an 'Elicar' digital spotmeter, which appears identical to the one sold by Soligor.<br>It seems to agree fairly well, on average, with the TTL meters in my Nikons and with a Minolta auto-meter 3, except that it seems excessively sensitive to the red end of the spectrum.<br>Have any other users of the Soligor or Elicar meter noticed this; and has it ever proved to be a problem in actual use?<br>The meter seems to have a comprehensive array of adjustment pots, hidden under the brand label, and I'm sure that a filter pack could be added to it, and the sensitivity wound up, a la Zone VI, if necessary.<br>But if nobody else has noticed any error, then I won't bother to try and modify it.<br>Thanks in advance.

[chauncey_walden2]

Pete, one thing you might want to watch with these is an apparent

sensitivity to the high voltage of a new 9-volt battery. Both of mine

will read two-thirds to a stop low with a fresh battery. Once the

voltage gets to 9 or below, they will read accurately - well, at least

they will be within one-third stop of my Pentax meters. By the way,

all of my Pentax meters, from the old smokestack 3 degree to the

analogs and the digitals, agree with each other. The Soligors seem a

bit flakey in comparison.

[pete_andrews]

Thanks Chauncey. The battery that came with it now needs replacing.

I'll look for a difference in the reading when I put the new battery

in. Cheers.

[doremus_scudder1]

Pete,

I have also noticed an increased sensitivity to red on my old

Soligor, which I keep as a back-up meter. It is not much of a

problem, however, unless you are metering a very saturated red or

metering through a red filter. If you have meters to compare with,

you could come up with a "fudge factor" of sorts for these

situations, or avoid metering the red parts of the scene. My meter is

only about 1/3 to 2/3 of a stop more sensitive to red at its worst.

Regards, ;^D)