I know the gist of the Zone VI meter mods, and still have and use the Pentax meter I had modified when this conversion was first introduced. But Zone VI is gone, I don't know (because I've no need to check) whether Calumet still offer the service, and besides the mod was always restricted to a very few models.
The other day I was looking at B+W filter curves and noticed the 486 filter, which was developed for digital cameras with excessive IR sensitivity. It's an interference filter with a sharp cut just above visible red and another in the UV, and is relatively flat across the visible. Has anyone played around with this as a possible "poor man's Zone VI conversion"? It might duplicate at least some of the corrections, and would be applicable to almost any meter. Or not, like I said in the title, this is all idle speculation over morning coffee.
Does anyone have a copy of the transmission curve of the Zone VI filter pack?
If they weren't so expensive I'd buy a 486 filter and experiment...
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