Response to Enlargment Exposure Meters

My experience is that the most useful meter is one that easily reads shadow and highlight areas and which can be quickly calibrated to your tastes and whose readings are easily tweaked from session to session to accommodate variations in print characteristics. My favorite was the Heathkit-Mitchell, long out of production. It was basically a galvanometer with a sensor wand. I now have an RH Designs Analyser Pro (see theRH Designs web site). Much more complex, It does what it is designed to do but is not all that easily tweaked and still requires my making test strips, especially when printing portraits. However, I haven't as much experience with it as I had with the Heathkit, and this may affect my assessment of it. The meters I found most useless were the little gadgets that merely flashed colored lights as they were placed here and there in the image or which did not meter highlight and shadow separately but tried for some over-all reading.

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