Does the Pentacon Six TL have a built-in light meter?
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I'm looking at a Pentacon Six TL and want to know whether it has a built-in light meter. Does metering depend on which viewfinder is installed? If the camera doesn't have a metered finder, how do you determine exposure?
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The viewfinder on this camera is interchangeable. The waist-level (top-down) finder does not have metering. There are also non-metering prism finders, and version with a light meter built-in — the "TTL metering prism". ("TTL" for through the lens, of course.)
If you did not have a built-in meter, you would either use an external light meter or judge exposure based on experience. (See also: How did people calculate exposure in the pre-light meter era?)
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It depends on the finder fitted to the camera.
The Pentacon Six TL has interchangeable viewfinders. The waist-level finder does not include a light meter, and there are also non-metering prism finders. Some versions were available with a TTL metering prism, which provides through-the-lens metering.
So the camera body itself should not be assumed to have built-in metering in every configuration. If yours has a waist-level finder or a non-metering prism, you'll need to meter another way.
Common options are:
- use an external handheld light meter
- estimate exposure from experience or a rule of thumb such as Sunny 16
In short: a Pentacon Six TL may have metering if it has the TTL prism attached, but many configurations do not.
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