Photomètre
N° Inventaire : AP-98-2046
Collection : La Cinémathèque française
Catégorie d'appareil : Photométrie
Nom du modèle : The Watkins Bee Meter
Lieu de fabrication : Hereford, Grande-Bretagne
Année de fabrication : 1914
Copyright photo : Dabrowski Stéphane
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Type de l'appareil
photomètre à papier sensible ; boîtier nickelé ; cadran rotatif
Auteurs
Watkins Alfred
Hereford
Fabricants
Watkins Meter Company
Hereford
Utilisateurs
Watkins Alfred
Hereford
Distributeurs
Watkins Meter Company
Hereford
Sujet du modèle
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Objectif
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Taille de l'objet
Ouvert :
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Fermé :
Longueur : 6.5 cm
Largeur : 4.5 cm
Hauteur : 1 cm
Diamètre :
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Taille de la boîte de transport
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Remarques
Inscrit sur le cadran : "Watkin's Bee Meter".
"Watkin's Bee Mater for correct exposures. This is the invention of Alfred Watkins who has a world-wide reputation as photographic scientist. The Bee Meter insures correct exposures every time, under all weather conditions, in or outdoors, on all makes of plates or films, with any lens. The Bee Meter will pay for itself in a single day's use. It is handsomely mounted in a polished, white metal case with a glass-covered dial ; it measures 1 5/8 inches across the face and 3/8 of an inch in thickness. The manipulation is extremely simple and the results are positively accurate every time. The Meter does not get out of order, wearing indefinitely in the pocket. Supplied with either U.S. or F. System Dials. U.S. Dials supplied unless F. Dials are specifically ordered. Prices : Bee Meter complete in box, with sensitized paper discs for 120 exposure tests, and instructions : $ 1.25. Extra refills sufficient for 500 exposure tests, .25. Bee Meter fitted with a compass in the back, $ 1.75" (Catalog of Cameras, Photographic Apparatus and Supplies, Stereopticons and Enlarging Lanterns 1912 - 1913, Altoona, Penna, William F. Gable & Co., p. 120).
Bibliographie
Catalog of Cameras, Photographic Apparatus and Supplies, Stereopticons and Enlarging Lanterns 1912 - 1913, Altoona, Penna, William F. Gable & Co., p. 120.
British Journal of Photography, 19 juin 1914.
The American Annual of Photography, 1931.
Zoom, n° 47, octobre 1977.