Would you all agree that sometimes we all have those days when we are feeling lazy, don't give a hoot and want someone else to do the work for us? I got in the mood to shoot some film without having to develop it over the weekend, and as I had some colour film I'd bought last year that I wanted to use up, I grabbed my Fujica ST705 and Sekonic light meter and a couple of M42 lenses, dumped the batteries out of the camera, threw in some of Lomography's 400-speed colour film (the usual sort, not one of the special funky kinds) and got shooting.
So it was "goodbye" to through-the-lens metering and "goodbye" to any way in which I might influence the exposure once the film was out of the camera. The beauty of the 705 is that it was hello to split prism focusing, a compact form factor (somewhere between a Spotmatic and an MX), and a nice bonus shutter speed (1/1500) for when things got really bright.
For sure, most people who back in the day would have owned one of Sekonic's Studio Deluxe light meters would probably also have developed their own film. However, I was also practising for when a Pentax S1a that I'm getting CLA'd arrives back. It will be interesting to see the results, but it was a liberating and very different experience. (I could also have used the Light Meter app in my cellphone, which has proven to be surprisingly accurate, but I needed the cellphone for other things and it was fun to play around with the - battery-independent - Sekonic in a true "in the field" sense.)
All in all, I had a lot of fun - and now I reckon some of my cameras would (if sentient) be eyeing me rather nervously and fearing for their positions in my collection.
Those of you with fully mechanical* shutters should try it sometime, if you don't already.
* Including LX's, which IIRC have manual reversion on those speeds for which camera shake is not an issue.