| Julian: I always carried my meter on one of those janitor-style spring loaded key rings that attaches to one’s belt. I used first a Spectra that reads directly in f/stops using the slides that come with it, but it wasn’t sensitive enough for low light and the slides are for 1/48 second so you’d have to compensate with a reflex Bolex by using the “wrong” slide. I later switched to a Minolta Autometer II, which I modified by adding a bright green arrow on the dial at 1/50th of a second, so it was easy to instantly see the stop. (The meter had a motorized dial.) We we’re shooting color reversal so exposures had to be really accurate. However, that was state of the art in 1978. (Jo and I exchanged them as Xmas gifts.) Any incident meter that you can set up to read directly in f/stops is preferable. Incident is preferable, with a design that has the ping pong ball on the same side as the readout. Al Maysles had a Spectra mounted on his camera above the lens, which worked for him. I don’t like meters on the camera. But the spring loaded belt holder is great. Get rid of the key ring part and take some thick stranded wire and solder a loop to the doohickey at the end of the chain. You can hear me use one mid-shot in Rocky & Rocky, since the mic was also in my left hand. Bad form! On Apr 23, 2023, at 12:53 PM, Julian Antos <[email protected]> wrote:
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