Digital BW, The Print

I used a Gossen Labosix enlarging meter for 20+ years with moderate 
success.  But they are long obsolete, depend for adjustment on a rheostat 
(I think) which wears out over time and cannot be replaced, and are not 
that sensitive.  A little over a year ago I bought a new enlarging meter 
which is absolutely fabulous in its functionality and accuracy.  It is the 
Zone Master II, comes from RH Designs in England, and meets all of your 
criteria except for price.  But it is the first enlarging meter that I've 
used on which I can routinely get a great print on the first exposure.

RH Designs has a web site at 
http://www.rhdesigns.co.uk/zonemaster.html.  (This is the link to the 
individual unit - you can look around at other products from there as 
well.)  This site has some fairly extensive discussion about how these 
meters work, as well as instruction manuals that you can download and 
peruse.  As I say, this is not a cheap unit, but if you figure in the cost 
of paper saved you might find that overall it is more economical than other 
things you might try.  In addition, it allows you to produce more (or save 
time, depending on your perspective) so there's a payback in time as well.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Kip

At 5/18/2003 05:54 PM +0000, Scott wrote:

>can anyone recommend an enlarging meter?  B&W or course.  Needs to be
>useable (readable) in fairly dim safelight, ideally with an illuminated 
>readout,
>not phosphorescent, and moderately economical would be nice