Seconic Light Meter—Need Manual: I have two Seconic Light Meters, Model L-28 c2. I am wondering if anyone might have an extra instruction manual for this model they would part with.

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

I have two Seconic Light Meters, Model L-28 c2. I am wondering if anyone might have an extra instruction manual for this model they would part with.

ALSO one of the meters is missing three itty bitty tiny screws that hold the nameplate to the back of the meter OR know the size and where I might obtain the appropriate screws (3).

I have not checked with Seconic yet but thought someone might have these items.

Dennis

AndyH Loc: Massachusetts and New Hampshire

See Mike Butkus's amazing page of orphan manuals.

https://www.butkus.org/chinon/flashes_meters/sekonic_l-28c2/sekonic_l-28c2.htm

Leave him three or four bucks if you download it. He's a good guy and does the photo community an amazing service.
Andy

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

AndyH wrote:

See Mike Butkus's amazing page of orphan manuals.

https://www.butkus.org/chinon/flashes_meters/sekonic_l-28c2/sekonic_l-28c2.htm

Leave him three or four bucks if you download it. He's a good guy and does the photo community an amazing service.
Andy

Thanks very much. I would prefer an actual manual but this is a good start if I can’t locate one.

Dennis

AndyH Loc: Massachusetts and New Hampshire

You see them on eBay from time to time, but they're pretty expensive - some of the rarer ones go for as much as fifty bucks, which ought to buy you the meter itself. Since Mike's are available in PDF form, I can print them out and staple together a copy if I want a hard copy. I actually like the PDF form, because I can download it onto my iPhone and always have it with me. I have hard copies of many manuals, but the PDF versions are with me all the time, and I can enlarge them on my screen to read the finest print.

Andy

Quixdraw Loc: x

AndyH wrote:

You see them on eBay from time to time, but they'r... (show quote)

Note: you can also load them into a Kindle which is very good for travel. All your manuals and library as well.

AndyH Loc: Massachusetts and New Hampshire

quixdraw wrote:

Note: you can also load them into a Kindle which is very good for travel. All your manuals and library as well.

True. Most every portable device will allow you to read PDF files. The "P" in PDF stands for portable, after all.

Andy

BebuLamar

dennis2146 wrote:

Thanks very much. I would prefer an actual manual but this is a good start if I can’t locate one.

Dennis

Unless you collect them there is no need for the paper manual. The meter is simple enough so that after reading the manual you wouldn't need it with you to use the meter.

AndyH Loc: Massachusetts and New Hampshire

BebuLamar wrote:

Unless you collect them there is no need for the paper manual. The meter is simple enough so that after reading the manual you wouldn't need it with you to use the meter.

The tables are useful. That's why they're always with me on my phone.

Andy

Notorious T.O.D. Loc: Harrisburg, North Carolina

PDFs are also searchable. I have the manuals for all my gear on my iPhone and iPad. As I test I also at one time had all the Boeing 747-400 manuals on my iPad, some 9,000 pages... Isn’t technology great...

billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont

dennis2146 wrote:

I have two Seconic Light Meters, Model L-28 c2. I am wondering if anyone might have an extra instruction manual for this model they would part with.

ALSO one of the meters is missing three itty bitty tiny screws that hold the nameplate to the back of the meter OR know the size and where I might obtain the appropriate screws (3).

I have not checked with Seconic yet but thought someone might have these items.

Dennis

https://www.butkus.org/chinon/flashes_meters/sekonic_l-28c2/sekonic_l-28c2.htm

Morning Star Loc: West coast, North of the 49th N.

dennis2146 wrote:

Thanks very much. I would prefer an actual manual but this is a good start if I can’t locate one.

Dennis

Had quick peek: it's a pdf format. You can always print it out, take the sheets of paper to Staples and have them put a spiral in to make it "an actual manual".
I too prefer paper manuals over digital, because I make my own notes in them.
For just about all manuals, 2 pages on a letter-size sheet is still large enough to read.
Then I add a blank sheet at the end of each section or chapter for my notes.
If you do go this route, I suggest you ask for a spiral, rather than a comb.
Advantage of the spiral is that you can fold the book all the way back, a comb you cannot.

mborn Loc: Massachusetts

AndyH wrote:

See Mike Butkus's amazing page of orphan manuals.

https://www.butkus.org/chinon/flashes_meters/sekonic_l-28c2/sekonic_l-28c2.htm

Leave him three or four bucks if you download it. He's a good guy and does the photo community an amazing service.
Andy

BebuLamar

Morning Star wrote:

Had quick peek: it's a pdf format. You can always... (show quote)

I love paper manuals too. But since I love them so much I rarely dare to use them afraid of damaging them. I never make notes in any manual or books.

amfoto1 Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA

AndyH wrote:

You see them on eBay from time to time...

And very often the manuals selling on eBay are just reprints someone has done from Mike's digital files or some other source.

You can print it yourself and get the same results. I recently printed out a manual for Mamiya C33 TLR that I bought and am restoring.

BebuLamar

amfoto1 wrote:

And very often the manuals selling on eBay are just reprints someone has done from Mike's digital files or some other source.

You can print it yourself and get the same results. I recently printed out a manual for Mamiya C33 TLR that I bought and am restoring.

Yeah unless I can't get the manual in PDF, reprint manuals are of no value to me.