METRAPHOT 2 IN User manual

NOW! A PHOTOELECTRIC EXPOSURE
      METER ONLY HALF AS LONG A9
     YOUR THUMB!
     .    Here,. in one motchbox-smqll meter,       '    ore the onswers to your exposure
       problems by ei,ther incident or  re-        flected lig ht.
      You con corry the tiny (l rlzxlrl4x5ll")
         feother-light (to/e oz.) Meirophot 2 in^ a   one of three conven ient woys  :
           o - otop your comero



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b - honging from the neck strop                c - in your hond
    of comero or  cose.





                                      Whot's more, you con operote  it with
                                 one hond.
                                         Corrying the Meler
                                        Leove the meter right in the comero
                                           occessory clip if you use the evereody
                                    cose wh ich tokes both comero ond
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                                               leother meter cose thof hongs from ihe
                                            neck strop of either the comero or its
                                              cose, reody for instont use. Or, if you

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window toword your subiect. The indi-      Two Methods gf Reading
cotor needle of tlre meter will come        Reflected Light
to rest in one of the series of block          1) Cqmero Position: You con get ex-                                                                                             '                                                       cellent results by using your Model2ond white chonnels lusi in front of  it.
When it does, rotote the shutter-speed              right of comerq position. Just point
diol until the triongulor block pointer            it"toword your subiect, but down
rests in the some relotive position, in               slightly to ovoid including too.much
the sqme chonnel os lhe  indicotor              skylight  if you oreworking outdoors
needle.
Once you hove done this, you will
find thot operiures ore lined up with                                                              -----t)oppropriote shutter speeds. Any of
the resuliing shutter-operture combi-                                                    -'--'notions will give you o correct ex-         'llposure.                                                  \\\\\\\
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                                             Close-up: This is o very occurote
                                       method. lt ist besi for controstY                                                       lighting ond for clo,r work. To use

it, go in close to your subiect.           from its source, rother thon os it  is
  "Reod" the brightest ond dorkest              reflected from your subiect. To do
   ports of it.Then set triongulor block              this, slip the smoll opol odopter
   pointer to o spof in the chonnels             (ottoched to the corrying choin)
   thot is midwoy between the posi-              into the slide fittings on either side
  tions of the ind icotor need le  crt            of the honeycomb window. With
  the brightest ond dorkest reodings.





3) Incident tight                                    incident light odopter in ploce, ond                                              stonding neor your subiect, point
  Where contrqst between bockground            the meier owoy from your subiect
   ond- subiect is very greot, you-incidentmoy           toword your comero ond toke the  prefer to meosure the                   reoding, This will overoge the
   rother thon the reflected light. Thot               light from oll sources illuminoting
    is, to meosure the  light os lt comes          your subiect.

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NOTE: USE THE OPAL ADAPTER FOR       40 seconds. In LUX,|7,5(meter condles)INCIDENT LIGHT WORK ONLY, RE.          the ronge is from     to 21,600 LUX.
FLECTED LTGHT MEASUREMENTS TA-         With the supersensitive element you
KEN WITH IT, OR INCIDENT LIGHT        con meosure os little .os 1,75 LUX.
MEASUREMENTS TAKEN WITHOUT IT
WILL GIVE INCORRECT EXPOSURES.
                                               Supersensitive Element
                                                                                                                                      i     For working in very weok light, you                                 con get the supersensitive elemeni
                                             mentioned obove. Just slip it into the
                                         some sloiyou use for the incident light
                                           odopter, REMEMBER TWO THINGS:


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Meosuring Ronge
The Metrophot 2 hos on extremelY
wide meosuring ronge - l/'1000 sec. to
4 sec. bosed oh f/8 with o film roted
25 ASA. With on occessory supersen-
 sitive element, the ronge extends to

l)When you use the supersensif'lve          Zero Setting. lf the indicotor needle  elemeni use the smoll rectongulor        does not poinf to zero when the
  pointer insteqd oi the triongle;            honey-comb window is  completely
2) All recrdings of the indicotor needle
  beyond the middle of the scqle
  with the block ond white chonnels
  ore unusoble.
For incident light meosurements with
the supersensitive element ottoched
to the Metrophoi 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  itt
                                           Just toke o smoll screwdriver qnd
                                           turn the cou ntersu nk screw wh ich is
                                              in the reqr of the meter housing
                                                 until the needle lines up properly.

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        Guorqnfee                 METRAPHOI 2I R
                                          For Movie Comeros: When using theYour Metrophot 2 is guoronteed for                               MF 2 for movie comeros odiust film
                                                                                                                          6-two yeors.                                          sensitivity os described on poge
                                       Then selbct the desired oction volue
                                  by meons of the triongulor Pointer
                                                                                  volue                                                                  operture                                                    the correct                                              reod[ight Volue Scole                      ond                                                                                                   cer-                                                          con set o                                                      needle.                                               Or You                                             of the
Avoiloble on request for comeros with           toin operture volue of the needle de-
shutters hoving light volue figures.            flectioh ond reod the correcl oction
When using the light volue scole, the         volue off the triongu lor Pointer.
iwo red rnorkings on the outer ond
 inner odiustment ring should be olign-
ed. Now the light volue focing the                                                  Colibrotionchonnel ot which the exposure meter                                                   th-"       When working for the   f irst timeneedle points'shutter is reod off, ondcomero         set for this volue. lf         with colour film, especiolly rever-
should be noted thot in this cose the          sible colour film with o very nor-
 indicoted exposure time figures ore no        row exposure r0nge, ir  is  recom-
 longer of ony volue.                         mended' to gouge the film together                                        with ihe comero ond the  meter.
                                            This is suitobly obtoined by moking
                                                severol triol shots with the operture
                                        volue reod off the meter, os well
                                  os the next higher ond the  next

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                                                                                                                                                                                           iIIlower volue. The best picture will                 ,
then provide the reference volues            tfor the future os regords the setting
of the film  sensitivity ot the ex-
posure meter, whereby the  sensiti-
vity volue moy in some coses differ
from the volue printed on  the
film's wropping. In cose picfures
with the next lower operture volue                         II8 hove come out much better thon                           ftthose with the  indicoted operturevolue  I I   it  will be  necessory,  in        t
future, to set the volue lower by
113 DIN thon thot printed on the
film's wropping. Thus e. g.   12110
DIN only insteod of  l5/.|0 DlN.
Corresponding ASA volues cqn be
reod off the meter, e. g.  in  this
porticu lor cose 20 ASA insteod of
r0 AsA.