Review 4 of 5
Summary: Shove the Pilot 2 into a small pocket, and you'll never be in doubt about exposure. Match it with an unmetered Nikon F or F2 for absolutely bombproof exposures in tough conditions. You may need a fancier meter (say, for flash work or automatic averaging), but you also need a Pilot 2 for back-up. Considering the price of many electronic meters that do little more than the Pilot 2, it's also a good value. Strengths: Tiny, tiny, tiny! Mine weighs less than 2 ounces by my postal scale, and about 3 oz. in the very sturdy, well-designed hard case. If you have it around your neck without the case, you will quite literally forget it's there.
Dead-on accurate. It matches my Minolta Flash Meter III.
No-nonsense, easy-to-use controls. It may be tiny, but you can manipulate the dial with gloved hands.
Can take both reflected and ambient measurements. Wow!
No battery? No problem! Weaknesses: Like other light meters of its type (using a light-sensitive array to transform light into electrical energy), its low-light performance is limited. Similar Products Used: Several ancient and no-longer functional Sekonics. A couple older Vivitar meters, but my main meter is either a Minolta Autometer IIIF of a Flash Meter III. Customer Service: Never needed.
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