Leica Meter 2 User manual

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Nowr A PHororrrcinrc EXposuRE
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i    Here, in one motchbox-smoll meter,
I   ore the onswers to your exposure
I    problems by  either incident or  re-     flected  lig ht.
   You con corry the tiny (lr,'zx1ri+x5le')
     feother-light (loiu oz.) Leico-Meter 2 in
    one of three convenient woys:
       o - otop your comero

prefer, you con carry the nreter by            First, you set the film speed disc bY
hond. An ingenious plostic retoiner          lining up the flot edge of the littleplote on o choin occepts the meter          metol"finger"one of which is on either
foot. The free end of the choin clips to       end of the disc beoring lens oper-
the incident light odopterwh ich is thus          tures. The left-hond film roting scole
olwoys hondy should you prefer this             is DlN, the right ASA. Use the corres-method of exposure reoding.                ponding "finger" to set the roting, then
                                                                                                                                              f orget it  u ntil you swiich io o                                                iustUsing the Leica-Meter 2                 film with onother roting.
The Leico-Meter 2 is excepiionolly sim-          You'll find you con operote the meterple to  use.                                    eosily with one hond. Finger pressure
                                on either side of the shutter-speed
                                                 (outer) diol will bring the poinier in
                                                     position.




                                            Here's how to toke o reoding by re-
                                                 flected light: Point the "honeycomb"

window toword your subiect. The indi-     Two Methods of Readingcoior needle of the meter will come       Reflected Light
to resf in one of the series of block          l)'' Comera Position: You con get ex-ond white chonnels iust in front of  it.             iellent resu lts by using your Model2When it does, roiote the shutter-speed             rioht ot comerq bosition. Just poini
diol until the triongulor block pointer          it"toword your subiect, but down
rests in lhe sqme relotive posifion, in             sliohtlv to ovoid including too much
the some chonnel os the indicqtor      "it      skilight  if you oreworking outdoors
need le.
Once you hove done this, You will
find thbt opertures ore lined up with
oppropriote shutter speeds. Any of
the resu lting shutter-operture combi-   )notions will give you o correct ex-
posure.                                            \------
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                                              2) Close'uP: This is o verY qccurote                                        'me'thod.                                                                                  lt  ist best for controsty,
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f.  g9' il  close to your subject.           from its source, t.'orn"r. thon os it is   "Reqd" the brightest-ond dorkest               reflected from your subiect. To do             it.Then    ports of                      set triongulor                                   block                  th                                                          smo ll                                                                    opo I odopter                                                            is, :lip the   pointer          to         o spot                                                 (ottoched                       in thl chonnels                                                               corrying                                                    to the   thot is midwoy between the posi-              into the slide fittings on eiiherchbin)side   iions of the ind icotor need le ot           of the honeycomb window. With   the brightest ond dorkesi reodings.
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3) lncident light                                   incident light odopter in ploce, ond                                             stonding neor your sub[ect, poin]
  Where controst between bockground           the meter owoy from your subiect
  ond subiect is very greot, you moy           toword your comero ond toke the  prefer to meqsure the incident           reoding, This will overoge the
  rother thon the reflected light.Thot               light from oll sources illuminoting    is, to meosure the light os it comes           your su biect.

1) When you use the supersensitive         Zero Setting. lf the indicotor needle
  element use the smo ll rectongu lor        does noi point to zero when the  pointer insteod of the triong le;            honey-comb window is  completely
2) All reodings of the indicotor needle
  beyond the m idd le of the sco le
  with the block ond white chonnels
  ore unusoble.
For incident light meosurements with
the su persensitive element ottoched
to the Leico-Meter 2, o speciol odop-
ter is supplied. lt fits into the slide
fitting ot the window of the super-
sensitive element.



                                          covered, you con eosily odiust  it.
                                          Just toke o smo ll screwdriver qnd
                                           turn the countersunk screw which is
                                           in the reor of the meter housing
                                                until the needle lines up'properly.

volue reod off the meter, os well
os the next higher ond the next
 lower volue. The best picture will
then provide the reference volues
for the future os regords ihe setting
of the   f ilm sensitivity ot the ex-
posure meter, whereby the sensiti-
vity volue moy in some coses differ
from ihe volue printed on  the
film's wropping. In cose pictures
with the next lower operture volue
8 hove come out much betler thqn
those with the indicoted operture
volue  I I   it  will be necessory,  in
future, to set the volue lower by
I l3 DIN thon thqt printed on  thefilm's wropping. Thus e. g. 12110DIN only insteod of  l5/.|0 DlN.
Corresponding ASA volues con bereqd off the meter, e. g. in  thisporticulor cose 20 ASA insteod of
IO ASA.