Polaroid METRAWATT Light Meter User manual

is thot sky light is soFIRST, SET METER TO COR.RECT         The reoson for this
SCALE for the picture roll you ore        much more inlense thon light reflected
using    Types 42 ond 32 hove o doy-        from folioge, clothing, etc., thdt the      -light speed           of 200 ond this is fhe scole         meter will give too high o reoding if it
thot should be used on the meter wilh         sees more sky light thon subiect light.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  ,              It isn't necessory (or desiroble) to oimthese film types. Becouse of the fqcf
thot different picture rolts hove differ-          lhe meter loo for downword, becouse
ent speeds, be sure to check the infor-        you will then be reoding too low (be-
motion pocked. with eoch roll.                  couse the ground is usuolly dorker thon
                                               the overoge of the scene). Just oim  il o
Ingeneiol you will be oble to mqke o        few degrees below the level position,
sofisfoctory reoding simply by leoving         os suggested in the sketch .   o ReS.u                                                                                            !the meler clipped to the comero ond
oiming the comero oi the scene You
ore plonning fo photogroph. There is
only one coution to be observed, ond
if you remember  ii you will hove
correctly exposed pictures in prociicolly
every cose. This is the importont fhing:

Aim the (omero ond meter slightly down-
word so thot ir will not see loo mu(h              GROUP ond ICENIC SHOIS
sky lisht.

Although this technique will usuolly         Be sure not to hold the meter so close
give you o sotisfoctory clveroge reod-            to the foce thot it costs its own shodow,
                                      qnd olso be coreful to moke sure thoiing for fhe scene, there ore some kinds
of pictures fhot con "fool" the meter if         the meter window is reolly oimed ot
you use it this woy. lf, for exo.mple, you           the fqce ond does not see post the foce
wish to foke o close distonce picture of         ond into the bright sky.
o person in o while shirt, in bright sun-
light, the mefer will "see" o lorge ex-
ponse of brilliont white' ond will pro-
duce o higher reoding for fhis scene
thon it should. lf you toke the picture
with thqt reoding, the shirt will comeout in o middle to light groY tone in        n
the picture, ond lhe foce of the subiect               CIOSE-UP READINGS OF T ACES
will be loo dork. lt's eosy to solve this
problem simply by moking o close-
up reoding of the foce of the subiect,
so thot the meter "sees" thot port of the
subiect thot you wont to render most          Although you will find greotesf useful-
exoctly. Just hold the meier two to           ness for your meter in oufdoor photog-
three inches owoy from the subiecl's          rophy, it con be use'd indoors os well,
foce   lhe side which You Plon towww.butkus.uswhenever fhere is enough light to mqke     -photogroph             ond moke fhe reoding.          the mefer needle move. Unless you use             -