The "New Find" has required getting serious about Sunny 16 and related matters, as I had intended with the K1000 of two years ago. But the thing about crutches is that if they are in reach they will be used and the K1000 did have a built-in light meter
Built in light meters are like those motorized shopping carts at Walmart. Plop and Click. Lay-Z
But the K4B has absolutely no light meter. None. Zip. It's "Synchro-Compur" is not a chip but one of those little spiked wheel thingies... i think they're called "gears". No motor cart here.
Moreover the little hieroglyph on the back was not what one would call "pellucid"
So back to ISO and EV charts and the whole mumbo jumbo of wheels and triangles... during which i came across a nice blog by some guy who's main interest is to simplify things and who is a devotée of
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| Leica M3 (photo Brian Johnson) |
OMFG. That is so beautiful. And there is more. LUST.
That 's the same year/generation as the Rolleiflex and they would make a great duo.
