What is match needle?
Jun 9, 2021 08:47:18 #
tcthome
Loc: NJ
burkphoto wrote:
Match needle metering… Line up a pointer with a circle in the viewfinder (or on top of some cameras) to balance ISO, aperture, and exposure time. It was how we achieved “correct” exposure before automation. It requires some knowledge of how the three variables interact, as well as what type of meter is in the camera (spot, average, center-weighted, matrix…).
Beyond that, you had to understand light and reflectivity and what to meter.
Beyond that, you had to understand light and reflectivity and what to meter.
As soon as read NEEDLE/METER , I think of the light meter in my Canon AE-1 or in digital putting the exposure on the o in the viewfinder. If I didn't own the Canon film camera I wouldn't have any idea.
Jun 9, 2021 08:47:26 #
Jun 9, 2021 09:01:41 #
CHG_CANON wrote:
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Jun 9, 2021 10:20:00 #
Ysarex wrote:
Minolta SRT
Pentax K1000
Canon Ftb
Retina Reflex III
Pentax K1000
Canon Ftb
Retina Reflex III
Add to that list the Petri FT.
Jun 9, 2021 11:22:36 #
Ysarex wrote:
Minolta SRT
Pentax K1000
Canon Ftb
Retina Reflex III
Pentax K1000
Canon Ftb
Retina Reflex III
Jun 9, 2021 11:24:17 #
Jun 9, 2021 11:26:07 #
fetzler
Loc: North West PA
burkphoto wrote:
Match needle metering… Line up a pointer with a circle in the viewfinder (or on top of some cameras) to balance ISO, aperture, and exposure time. It was how we achieved “correct” exposure before automation. It requires some knowledge of how the three variables interact, as well as what type of meter is in the camera (spot, average, center-weighted, matrix…).
Beyond that, you had to understand light and reflectivity and what to meter.
Beyond that, you had to understand light and reflectivity and what to meter.
I remember match needle metering well. Indeed, My Olympus cameras (and likely others) can be used this way by placing the camera in manual mode and and adjusting the aperture. ISO and shutter speed are preselected.
Jun 9, 2021 12:09:27 #
JFCoupe
Loc: Kent, Washington
Also the Fujica 701 and 801 bodies from the early 1970s. The Fujicas were almost clones of the Pentax bodies of that era.
Jun 9, 2021 12:54:09 #
Jun 9, 2021 13:05:53 #
burkphoto wrote:
Match needle metering… Line up a pointer with a circle in the viewfinder (or on top of some cameras) to balance ISO, aperture, and exposure time. It was how we achieved “correct” exposure before automation. It requires some knowledge of how the three variables interact, as well as what type of meter is in the camera (spot, average, center-weighted, matrix…).
Beyond that, you had to understand light and reflectivity and what to meter.
Beyond that, you had to understand light and reflectivity and what to meter.
So, to add: way back, cameras didn’t have built-in light meters. You either used an external light meter or the guide from a book: based on ISO, you could pick a shutter speed and then select aperture according to light conditions.
Late 60s/early 70s, light meters started being incorporated into cameras. Based on the selected ISO (also called ASA or DIN back then), pick a shutter speed or aperture and then line up the meter with the circle in the viewfinder. So yeah…ISO and shutter speed were linked electronically to the meter. First generation required you to actually manually stop down the aperture to get a reading (a while back, someone posted a picture of a Canon TLb found in a lake…a large lever on the face, probably on the right side, to foster good lens support habits with the left hand), adjust aperture, then shoot. Cumbersome? Yes…but less so than a handheld meter.
Next generation had contacts in the lens to report selected aperture, so you didn’t have to do the stop down thing, but still had to match the needles. Oh yeah…somewhere in there was introduction of lenses that were usually wide open, and a lever from the camera would close to the selected aperture when the shutter was triggered.
Then the food fight began between shutter priority and aperture priority…
Jun 9, 2021 14:15:31 #
Jun 9, 2021 15:09:58 #
I think this goes back to many of the 70's era film camera. I learned photography in the military (1971) We used Pentax slr's model ? It was fairly simple; you a bracket with a pointer (needle) in the view finder You had to set the ASA then chose mode; AP, SP, Man, or B. If you were in say AP, you would select the aperture, then adjust the shutter speed until the needle was in exact middle of the bracket, if needle was high in bracket you were slightly over exposed and low under exposed Fairly simple!
Jun 9, 2021 16:12:41 #
CHG_CANON wrote:
Al, consider a mirrorless body for your FD lenses.... (show quote)
i might be getting in touch with you for more details. I have a HUGE collection of FD lens. I'd like nothing better than to bring my FD collection out from the closet to reuse them. Intriguing idea. Thanks
Jun 9, 2021 16:27:41 #
Jun 9, 2021 16:28:42 #
no12mo wrote:
i might be getting in touch with you for more details. I have a HUGE collection of FD lens. I'd like nothing better than to bring my FD collection out from the closet to reuse them. Intriguing idea. Thanks
The posts are only occasionally 'labeled' as specifically FD lenses, but here's a recent post with my most recent FD addition.
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-696718-1.html
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