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Weston Master III exposure meter

Photographic Technology

1959

Weston Photronic Exposure Meter Model 650

Photographic Technology

1935

Avo exposure meter, damaged, made in England by AC

Optics

Primus printing gauge

Photographic Technology

1910-1920

Actinometer watch-type meter, full size, in engine-turned silver case. Hallmarked AW 'X' for 1897. Round meter with white face and insturction booklet.

Wynne's Infallible Exposure Meter in silver case

Photographic Technology

1897

Original enamel tin packing for Wynne's Infallible Exposure Photographic Exposure Meter, with chamois leather pouch, card of plate speeds and instruction book, marked 'June 1921'.

Wynne's Infallible Exposure Meter in silver case

Photographic Technology

1897

Watch type actinometer in solid silver case hallmarked for Birmingham. Gothic in style 't', 'A.W.' 1893. Back engraved with crowned A monogram and the Prince of Wales feathers. With rose, thistle and shamrock decoration. Wynne.

Queen Alexandra's Wynne's Infallible exposure meter

Photographic Technology

1893

Watkins "Standard" Exposure Meter

Photographic Technology

1890-1900

Leon Warnerke's patent actinometer, photographic e

Photography

1895-1905

Avo Exposure meter model 1, made by the Automatic

Optics

1950-1959

Actinograph

Photographic Technology

1888-1895

Wellington exposure meter, plastic disc mounted on card by metal rivet. In cloth envelope. Made by Wellington & Ward Ltd., Elstree, Herts.

Wellington exposure meter

Photographic Technology

Avo Smethhurst High Light Exposure Meter in leathe

Optics

1940-1959

Exposure meter and shutter unit for polarising binocular microscope

Microscopes

Wynne "Infallible" exposure meter, with metal case

Photography

1913

Watkins exposure meter, made by R. Field and Co. Birmingham. Cylindrical form; pendulum cap. Actinometer from carrying long strip of sensitive paper under tinted disc. Calculator on body - 6 scales, 4 rotating, two fixed.

Watkins Exposure Meter

Photographic Technology

c. 1895

Camera body for polarising binocular microscope

Microscopes

Watkins "Bee" Exposure Meter

Photographic Technology

1915-1925

Zeiss-Ikon Diaphot exposure meter. Extinction type; flat disc with rotating continuous wedge. Calibrated f.3.5-25 1/2000-12 minutes.

Zeiss-Ikon Diaphot exposure meter

Photographic Technology

Avo light meter model 3, made by Avo Ltd., Dover,

Optics

1970-1979

Made in Austria. Visual extinction meter, telescope type. Focusing eyepiece. Preset series of figures, the brightness of which is affected by rotating wedge calibrated in apertures. In leather case.

Cinophot Exposure Meter Mod 8

Cinematography

Watkins Eikronometer with a single minute hand and dial calibrated to 10 minutes. Preset hand adjusted from front. Minute hand adjusted from back. Winding key missing. Two brass calculator band around body for factorial development calculation. Watkins Meter Co.

Watkin's Eikronometer

Photographic Technology

Wynne's "Infallible" exposure meter complete with instructions in original tin case; ( works by darkening of light - sensitive test paper), c. 1912.

Wynne's "Infallible" exposure meter

Photographic Technology

1912

Two hinged metal plates, the upper with a square aperture 19 x 19mm. The one silvered below. The pin in the top plate enters a hole in the bottom plate when closed. To take a 4cm square test paper, enabling four exposures, to be produced in quick succession. Provisional patent. 5093/45. Johnson's of Hendon Ltd. 1945.

Johnson exposure tester

Photographic Technology

1945

Zeiss-Ikon Diaphot exposure meter. Extinction type; flat disc with rotating continuous wedge. Calibrated f.3.5-25 1/2000-12 minutes. In leather case.

Zeiss-Ikon Diaphot exposure meter and wallet

Photographic Technology

AVO exposure meter, BP 450546. Photoelectric meter, match needle type. In original carton with instructions.

AVO Expsoure Meter

Photographic Technology

Book type actinometer with slide rule calculator. H & D speed numbers 5-600.

Imperial Exposure Meter No 1

Photographic Technology

Mascot exposure meter made by General Electric Co. Lynn, Massachusetts. Type PR-35. Photoelectric meter; rotary calculator dials calibrated: film speed 10-400? ASA, f1.9-32; 1-1/1000 sec. Exp. Values 5-18. If shutter speed is preset, aperture is directly read.

Mascot Exposure Meter

Photographic Technology

1955

Photo-electric exposure meter two ranges 25-1600 and 2 to 50. Hinged perforated baffle, covers photo-electric cell under honeycomb lens. Calculator calibrated Weston speeds .3-800. Faulty. Sangamo Weston Limited.

Weston master II exposure meter

Photographic Technology

Wynnes Infallible Shutter Speed Tester. Made by The Infallible Exposure Meter Co., Wrexham, 1895-1915

Wynnes Infallible Shutter Speed Tester. Made by The Infallib

Photographs

1895-1915

Metrovick exposure meter. Metropolitan-Vickerrs. PE meter dual range.

Metrovick Exposure Meter

Photographic Technology

1937

Weston photronic exposure meter model 617, made by Weston Electric Instrument Corporation, Newark, NJ. Photoelectric exposure meter. Scale calibrated in light values, 0-1300. Two photocells, one switched out of circuit by pressing button - scale readings then divided by 10. Rotary disc calculator 4-48 film speeds; f1.5-32; 1/800 - 64 seconds; LV 1-1300.

Weston Photronic Exposure Meter No 617

Photographic Technology

1932

Circular form photoelectric exposure meter. The photocell is protected by spring loaded doors, opening automatically when the lid is opened. Single scale, numbered 0-15. Rotating calculator, f/scale 1.4-22, speed scale 6-200ASA with DIN and Sch.0 scales. Shutter scale 1/1600 sec - 4 minutes. Cine exposure time scale in lid. With ribbon strap. No. B 514853. c.1952

Bertram Chronos exposure meter

Photographic Technology

1947-1957

Slide rule type calculator in form of small booklet. Scales for light values, weather conditions, H&D sppeds, subkects, stops ad shutter speeds. With book of light tables and instruction book. Imperial dry plate co ltd.

imperial exposure reckoner

Photographic Technology

1907-1917

Watkin's Bee exposure meter in box, with instruction leaflets. Leaflets dated July 17, 1920; April 19th 1934

Watkin's Bee exposure meter in box

Photographic Technology

1920-1934

Wellington exposure meter, made by Wellington and Ward. Extinction type, card carrying disc with 13 apertures before blue filtered viewing hole. For antiscreen plate. (M1569)

Wellington exposure meter

Photographic Technology

A set of 3 actinometers from Primus printing gauge for printing platinotype, carbon, ozotype papers etc. Plated holder for strip of POP paper with 12-step wedge.

3 actinometers from Primus printing gauge

Photographic Technology

VS 19 Justophot extinction exposure meter. Dream - Dr.E.Meyer patent, three adjustable scales for flimspeed, aperture and shutter on cylinder containing focussing lens.

Justophot extinction exposure meter

Photographic Technology

Smith Automatic Exposure Meter, made by Dr J H Smith & Co, Zurich. Slide rule calculator with slider or printed pink linen. Calibrated for: plate type; aperture; time; tables for subject and time of year and day. (M38)

Smith Automatic Exposure Meter

Photographic Technology

1910

Watch type actinometer in solid silver case hallmarked for Birmingham. Gothic in style 't', 'A.W.' 1893. Back engraved with crowned A monogram and the Prince of Wales feathers. With rose, thistle and shamrock decoration. Wynne. With leatherette case.

Queen Alexandra's Wynne's Infallible exposure meter

Photographic Technology

1893

Wynne's infallible print meter for printing platinotype and carbon prints. Series of numbers and letters under masks with graduated holders and opal glass diffusers. The Infallible exposure meter company.

Wynne's infallible print meter

Photographic Technology

KD 56 Weston Cine Exposure Meter. Photoelectric exposure meter; calibrated 'relative brightness scale' 0-19. Emulsion speed range 1.5-250.

Weston Cine exposure meter

Photographic Technology

Kodak Exposure Calculator, made by Kodak Aktieselskab, Copenhagen. Slide-rule type calculator, bookform.

Kodak Exposure Calculator

Photographic Technology

Justophot exposure meter, model 4. Extinction type meter. Brightness of of four figures: 1/25 1/5, 8, 2 varied by adjusting ring. Telescope form focusing. Aperture, shutter and filmspeed scales.

Justophot exposure meter model 4

Photographic Technology

Norwood Super Director Exposure Meter. Made in Japan. Incident light meter, No 1043. In everready case.

Norwood Super Director Exposure Meter

Photographic Technology

Made in Japan. Miniature photoelectric meter for camera shoe fitting. Scales: ASA 3-3000, f/1.4-32, 1/200-30 secs, EV 1-17. Hinged flap with slots for bright light. In leather case.

Capital exposure meter - Avigo M1 meter

Cinematography

c. 1963

Chronoscope PAP exposure meter, made by Lumiere France. Cylindrical actinometer with lens forming image of scene on POP on paper in filter with standard tint surround.

Chronoscope PAP exposure meter

Photographic Technology

1907-1917

DIN exposure guide, a circular aluminium disc calculator. With 3 DIN speeds 16, 18, 20 / 10 degrees, aperture scale f/1.5-32, time scale 1/4000 2 secs. Agfa

Agfa exposure meter

Photographic Technology

Photoelectric exposure meter. Two scales calibrated 1/10/-1/500 sec, 30 sec - 1/10sec selected by pushbutton. Calibrated for f/8 and 23 degrees. Conversion scales provided for alternative apertures for 17,20, 23, and 26 degrees. With additional scale for 29 degress. Hand engraved on scale holder. Cel with oval convex lens. No.c2152.

Ombrux exposure meter

Photographic Technology

1935

Gossen Sixtry meter in leather case. Made in West Germany.

Gossen Sixtry meter in leather case

Photographic Technology