[rollei_list] Re: Lightmeters and Estimated Photography
- From: Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 19:52:29 -0700
Richard,
The first Weston meter, the model 617, came out in 1932.
Jerry
Richard Knoppow wrote:
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> From: "Marc James Small" <msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 5:01 PM
> Subject: [rollei_list] Lightmeters and Estimated Photography
>
> > At 03:44 PM 4/29/05 -0700, Richard Knoppow wrote:
> >
> >> I think there was another photoelectric meter before
> >> the=20
> >>Weston but it was the first popular one and the first
> >>to=20
> >>have a reliable film speed service.=20
> >
> >> I have often used the meter in my Nikon F when
> >> shooting=20
> >>LF because it has a well defined area of sensitivity
> >>and=20
> >>I've found it to be very reliable. I've also found the=20
> >>built-in meter in my Rolleiflex 2.8E to be reliable.
> >
> > Shame on you, Richard.
> >
> > Both Gossen and Metrawatt in Europe were producing
> > photoelectric meters at
> > the same time as Weston. While Weston produced the first
> > branded hand-held
> > meter, it was Metrawatt of Nurnberg which produced the
> > first clip-on meter
> > for the Leitz camera, a rather rare 1939 product. =20
> >
> > But, in the end, any photographer who cannot properly
> > evaluate a sunlit
> > scene and determine the exposure from his own head needs
> > to rethink the
> > process. Using another camera to determine the exposure
> > is less a
> > confession of weakness: it is an acknowledgement of a
> > failure to
> > comprehend the mixture of light and subject which allows
> > us to take
> > pictures. An undue reliance on a lightmeter indicates a
> > failure of
> > understanding.
> >
> > Marc
> >
> > msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx=20
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> >
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> >
> I no longer remember where the first photoelectric meter
> was made, perhaps Germany, but it dated from the very early
> 1930's. There were other photoelectric meters on the market
> by the time the Weston hand held meter came on sale but it
> was Weston's film speed service and good design that
> established it as a standard. Henney and Dudley, in
> _Handbook of Photography_ c.1939 show the characteristics of
> 13 meters including three German made ones and one English
> meter (Avo). This was reprinted from an article in _Photo
> Technique_ Vol.1 No.1 June, 1939. This was a short lived
> magazine published by McGraw-Hill and intended for the
> professional-industrial photographic market. I have about
> two numbers, they are extremely rare. Eventually it was
> merged into "American Photography" ruining both magazines.
>
> ---
> Richard Knoppow
> Los Angeles, CA, USA
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