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WESTON MASTER 715 老 老式测光表 机械测光表

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WESTON MASTER UNIVERSAL S74/715
Exposure meter
Selenium

Brand: Weston
Manufacturer: Sangamo Weston Ltd
Country: England (Enfield)
Release year: 1939
Discontinued:
Starting price:
Designer:

The meter, is a device that allows you to measure the amount of light in a scene or that reflected by a person or an object that you want to photograph. With this measurement the exposure meter indicates the correct combination diaphragm / shutter speed.
Although nowadays every camera has a built-in one, for a while the hand-held exposure meter was indispensable for the activity of any photographer or for recording film scenes.


This exposure meter is the first in the series of the Weston Master manufactured since 1939 by Sangamo Weston Ltd in its factory in Enfield Middle**, England. It includes measurement scales that make it equally useful for photography and cinema. It uses a photocell of selenium with which it does not require the use of battery.

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Maker: Weston Electrical Instrument
Model: Master (Model 715)
Circa: 1939 - 1945
Price (new): $30
Cell type: Selenium
Designer: Alexander Williams
US Patent: 2,274,471
Measure type: Reflecting/Averaging (3D incident available as accessory)
click for advertisementThe first of (arguably) the most famous meter line of all. Ansel Adams wrote about them fondly in his books. It played an ironic part in the making of one of his signature images, "Moonrise, Hernandez New Mexico" because he couldn't find his Weston and had to guess at the exposure. Weston Masters were the best of Weston's quality equipment--the Cadillac of meters.

This one came at an unfortunate time: World War II interrupted just about every facet of American life. When it was over, Weston introduced the Master II and hand-held meters took off. At least until on-camera meters changed everything in the 1960s.

I snapped these two up for surprisingly little (I paid a lot more in shipping than for the meters themselves). Of course they were both broken. But I don't see original Masters for sale very often: it's the Master II and Master III that show up most of the time.

How to use it: the film speed is the innermost band on the calculator dial. There's a red panel with a little window and a number should show inside it: that's the film speed on the Weston scale.

There's a slim, rectangular, bare-metal button. It's at the 3 o'clock or 6 o'clock position depending on how you hold the meter (it's at 6 o'clock in the photo above) at the outer edge of the dial. There's also a very small tab on the outer dial, located right by the word "light." Using the fingernail of one hand, press and hold the lock button down and with the fingernail of your other hand, push the tab to rotate the dial. You should see the film speed numbers change. Set this to the Weston speed you want to use. (If you think you're doing everything properly and the dial still won't rotate, it's possible that everything is rusted together, in which case you'll have to take it apart and clean it and put it back together again. Good luck.)

Once the film speed is set, you're ready to go. Look at the calculator dial's shutter speed band (it's got black numbers scribed on bare metal). At each end of this band there are little raised tabs that make it easy to rotate the calculator dial. As you do this, look at the outer edge of the dial where the big pointer is. You should see it point (as you turn) to a series of numbers on the outermost band. These are your "light values."

So what you do is point the meter at your subject and see where the needle falls. This is your "light value." Turn the calculator dial until the pointer on the dial points to the same number on the outer band. Now you can read the aperture/shutter speed combinations on another part of the dial.

Example: I have my speed set to 50. The needle points to 100. I rotate the pointer to 100. That gives me combinations of 1/800th @ f/2.8, 1/200th @ f/5.6, 1/50th @ f/11, and so on.

A couple more important things to note:

1. Unlike most meters which have the cell on the narrow top edge of the box, Weston Masters all have the cell on the broad "back" of the meter. Instead of holding the meter at chest level and looking down to read it, you hold the Weston at eye-level. Hold the meter along the edges (as if it were a pair of binoculars) and take care that your fingers don't block the photocell.

2. There are two levels, one for bright light and one for low-light. On the back of the meter, covering the cell, there's a black panel with holes drilled into it. When this panel covers the cell, you're on the "bright" range. To change ranges, look for the little pin that's on the edge of the panel. Push it down (a fingernail works best) and pull gently--the panel will rock out and expose the cell. There's a hole near the bottom of the meter where that pin will catch, and that will lock the panel open.

To put it back into High mode, gently pull the panel, rock it back into position over the cell, and press it until it locks into place.

The meter automatically changes scales on the meter face depending on the position of the panel, so there are no special compensations to be made.

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雷德 发表于 2021-2-5 22:53
Maker: Weston Electrical Instrument
Model: Master (Model 715)
Circa: 1939 - 1945