[rollei_list] Re: Selenium Light Meters

I guess if AA had given Weston a copy of Morgan & Lester's "Correct Exposure
In Photography" the out come might have been different.
This book was at the time (1944) the definitive work on Weston meters. 
Jonathan


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Marc James Small:

> Richard
> 
> You are apparently too young to have been properly trained on selenium
> meters <he grins> , but the proper method is to wave them around a bit to
> obtain an average. (snipped)


Adams supposedly witnessed Weston operating a meter in this manner...
pointing it up, pointing it down, pointing it in, then pointing it out...
after several minutes of observing this hokey-pokey, AA finally asked what
the hell he was doing, and Weston alleged said "damned if I know" and put
the meter down for about twenty years...


Eric Goldstein
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