hot shoe exposure meter

[himself]

Mornin'

was wondering if these exist?

I was sat wondering the other day, trying to decide between my hi-matic 7s or my zorki 4 and was disappointed not to choose the zorki, which I prefer, my reasoning was thus - in a pinch if I need to meter the minolta has it and I wont have to reach into my bag for the hand-held meter.

and as wondering tends to do, I was led to a place where I figured there must be a simple fix for this problem, to take away the need to choose, a little meter I could fit to my zorki hot shoe and never need to consider this again.

does such a wonderful thing exist?
cds or battery powered?

anything?

[Sirius Glass]

I used to hove one. There should still be some working ones around.

[himself]

what am I looking for, did they have a specific name, manufacturer?

[Rudolf Karachun]

As i remember Cosina used to manufacture them for Bessa. Check out Cosina dealers, they may have them.

[DWThomas]

The currently manufactured Gossen Digisix has a threaded insert in the bottom and there is an optional shoe mount adapter (which costs about twice what it should) available.



I don't recall the model, but I believe it was Voigtländer that had a very small meter that mounted on an accessory shoe.

[rawhead]

Cosina/Voigtländer has the VC meters. They go for a pretty penny on Ebay these days.

[AgX]

The currently manufactured Gossen Digisix has a threaded insert in the bottom and there is an optional shoe mount adapter (which costs about twice what it should) available.

Just get a flash socket, flash adapter or whatever of that kind you can grab at a fleamarket ar alike, and mount the socket proper by screwing or glueing to that Digisix.

The historic mount-on ones I can remember were selenium ones. But there are some sites on the net devoted to historic exposure meters, maybe you find there something apt to look for then.

[himself]

thanks very much...

any that go for an ugly penny?
not looking for something too bells and whistles-y, just something to use in a pinch

[thegman]

Could get a Leicameter MC, cheaper than the Voigtlander, and probably less accurate. I've used both, prefer the Voigtlander, but it's quite pricey.

[Aron]

Easy solution: keep your handheld meter in your pocket or around your belt so it will always be within easy reach. To me incident meters are fundamental accesories and I wouldn't want to trade mine for an accesory shoe mounted one that one would inevitably use mostly in reflected mode, if it's got an incident option at all.