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Out of the case. The case has a hole at the end for the lanyard loop and a metal clip across the bottom which engages into two holes to hold the meter in - very effectively.
See also cased view for more description.
Bought this from a gentleman around the corner who later turned out to be a good friend. I have no idea how this works, just what it states on the case. I don't work with selenium rectifiers much so it's basically a dust collector. As always, the day I get rid of it, I'll need it.
Managed to save this beautiful camera. Everything is working now, even the selenium cell. However, it seems, that the values are a bit pessimistic, resulting a lot of over exposure during the first test roll (or may be I was not checking the temperature close enough during development on a hot night... :) ). I like the 2.8 Tessar and the sound of the leaf shutter.
Leica m7, Summicron 35 asph, neopan 1600. XTOL stock, 6´. Fomatone MG WT Glossy 131. Selenium+gold toning. Scan from print
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The original print of this 4x5 negative was a little disappointing. Some plugged shadows, a lot of muddy midtones and a featureless sky. It was suggested to me to treat with Selinium to richen the midtone. The side benefit is the selenium found some sky detail to tint, All in all I like this a lot. Vignette was added later in lightroom
A color temperature meter with scales for color filter correction. Production started in 1957 with the white model, followed by the black and later the grey models.
Adox Variotone in Fatman - MT3 - MT3 & MT1
middle: bleach somewhat stronger as usual to illustrate the toning effect
1+40 45 secs, toner 25+7+500ml 45 secs
right side: followed by a strong selenium toner 1+10 2 mins
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(more informative links in comments below)
Remember, if your camera comes with selenium light meter like the Olympus Trip 35 (think Agfa Optima or Silette, certain Voigtlanders, Werras) they need to be kept in the dark or it will exhaust the cell.
Never buy one on display in a bright counter without a lens cap. The meter will most likely be on its last legs.
The camera won the 1968 Good Design award.
The Olympus write up on the camera goes:
The Olympus TRIP 35 is a full-sized compact EE camera based on the Pen EES. It first went on sale in 1968. The name reflects its suitability as a convenient camera to take on trips. The TRIP 35 became very popular as a camera that combined ease of use, reliability and a low price with superb photographic performance. It remained a best-seller for many years, and over the next 20 years over 10 million were produced.
Minolta Autopak 500 ~1966
Rokkor 1:2.8 f38mm
Shutter speeds 1/90, 1/40 in flash mode.
Double stroke film advance.
Zone focus by means of metal knob on the camera side.
Selenium meter controls the exposure aperture or the auto flash mode, if a flash cube is present. The aperture is coupled to the focus zone in flash mode.
Uses 126 film cassettes.
A simple look but loaded of features.
Selenium in sandstone from New Mexico, USA. (SDSMT 3909, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Museum of Geology, Rapid City, South Dakota, USA)
A mineral is a naturally-occurring, solid, inorganic, crystalline substance having a fairly definite chemical composition and having fairly definite physical properties. At its simplest, a mineral is a naturally-occurring solid chemical. Currently, there are over 4900 named and described minerals - about 200 of them are common and about 20 of them are very common. Mineral classification is based on anion chemistry. Major categories of minerals are: elements, sulfides, oxides, halides, carbonates, sulfates, phosphates, and silicates.
Elements are fundamental substances of matter - matter that is composed of the same types of atoms. At present, 118 elements are known (four of them are still unnamed). Of these, 98 occur naturally on Earth (hydrogen to californium). Most of these occur in rocks & minerals, although some occur in very small, trace amounts. Only some elements occur in their native elemental state as minerals.
To find a native element in nature, it must be relatively non-reactive and there must be some concentration process. Metallic, semimetallic (metalloid), and nonmetallic elements are known in their native state.
The rock shown above is from a "roll front deposit", in which native selenium occurs along a redox front in fluvial sandstone (see Granger & Santos, 1982).
Stratigraphy & age of host rock: fluvial sandstone, Westwater Canyon Member, Morrison Formation, Upper Jurassic
Locality; Section 23 Mine, Ambrosia Lake Mining District, north of Grants, New Mexico, USA
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Reference cited:
Granger & Santos (1982) - Geology and ore deposits of the Section 23 Mine, Ambrosia Lake District, New Mexico. United States Geological Survey Open-File Report 82-207. 70 pp.
Cemetery next to a green church somewhere in the Western Fjords of Iceland
Hasselblad with 150mm+tubes, Acros film, printed on Ilford MGWT plus selenium
String Lake @ Grand Tetons National Park.
Canon 50D w/Tamron 18-270mm @ f/10; 1/40; iso-400; 130mm . Selenium-Sepia Toned via Topaz Labs B/W effects.
As Murray Walker once said "It's raining and the track is wet" - It's raining today and the shed is wet, as would I be if I'd left the house. I have a man cold, as such, I wish to just mooch around feeling glum, for a change.
To brighten the day my father found some mid 20th century exposure meters, these are Selenium powered and as such require no batteries, hoorah. This CP Prixcolor has a flip over incident cover. Film speed from 12 up to 3200 ASA (ISO), shutter speeds from 1 to 1/1000th and was made in West Germany in 1977.
He found the instruction book later on ^_^
slavich bromportrait 80 grade 3, selenium 1+1+9,
arista premium liquid lith 1+1+24+old brown, bessa r2a, yellow-green #11
hc-110, neopan ss ei200, heliar classic 50/2.
Seattle Skyline as viewed from North Lake Union at Gasworks Park. Kodak Tri-X 400 film, tripod. Neg finalized in Selenium toner. This shot got me cash, and lots of web hits. 2003 I think.
Monica Denevan, "Braiding, Burma," 2006, from the series "Songs of the River: Portraits from Burma;" selenium toned gelatin silver print, 10 x 10." Edition of 20.
Yashica FX-3 Super 2000. Ilford multigrade IV RC Deluxe. Warmtone developer, slightly selenium toned.
A selenium meter for mounting in the accessory shoe. Dimensions: 31mm diameter at the end of the hood, 39mm long (1 1/2 x 1 9/32 inches).
Shoe mount (foot?) is hidden on the other side.
Slightly unusual in having a concentric circle pattern on the cell window, rather than the conventional honeycomb .
My grandparents' old GM Model B Standard Exposure Meter. It's got a slide rule on the back for you to determine your f-stop/shutter speed. I learned from a friend today that this is, in fact, powered by Selenium! And it still works!
Note: Another neat fact: This is from around the 40s! And you can get one for, like, $20!
Inspired by the fascinating test strips of Pierre Cordier in the shadow catchers show and using the denser of my Gum negs I contact printed on silverprint proof paper under the sunbed for about 25mins
Fixed, and toned in selenium 1:15
fomaspeed variant III mg 312, rollei lith, selenium 1+1+9, neopan ss @200, heliar classic 50/2, yellow-green #11, bessa r2a, hc-110.
scanned negative: www.flickr.com/photos/501rf/2517383190/in/set-72157605200...
The Robin Illuminometer 5200 is a copy of Sekonic's 246 Handy Lumi. Scale in Lux. Made in Japan by Sekonic. Around 1965.
My new baby girl whe she was still in the hospital.
I can't find many (if any) reference images for before/after toning of various papers and I can't find a copy of Tim Rudman's book on toning, therefore I am creating tests and will try to publish them here for the rest of the darkroom users out there!
Top: Kodak Polycontrast RC glossy paper
Middle: Forte Polywarmtone FB paper (added white vignette)
Bottom: Forte Polywarmtone FB paper, toned in Harmon Selenium toner
All prints developed in rather used Ilford warmtone developer and 2 bath fixed to eliminate toning stains.
Tmax 400 film, shot at iso 800, developed in Tmax dev.
I decided to use selenium to create a blue tone on this one to bring out the tonality of this ignition image. Thoughts welcome.
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Here's a photo from 18 June 2014, when Collings Foundation brought their B-17, B-24 and P-51 to Skagit Regional Airport. My photoset is here.
3/4-rear view of “selenium*” rectifier lamphouse power supply for the RCA Arc 400 carbon-arc 16mm movie projector, showing the AC input, pilot light, and DC output.
*That's what the specification plate says; a peek through the grille with a flashlight reveals this unit was retrofitted with a pair of high-current silicon diodes mounted in heat sinks along with a large electrolytic capacitor to smooth the DC output.
Compact 24x36 courant en France. Exemplaire n° 833268, objectif fixe, 45 mm, ISCO Color-Isconar, f:2.8(22), mise au point sur l'optique, 1m-infini, obturateur central Gauthier (AGC) Prontor 300 à lamelles métalliques, vitesses 30-300 + B, cellule sélénium non couplée en façade et disque de choix du couple vitesse d'obturation / diaphragme pour la sensibilité de film affichée (ASA / DIN), viseur interne fixe, collimaté. 128 x 90 x 70 mm, 430 g, Une évolution du Dignette 300, modèle sans cellule.
Vide-grenier du 7 octobre 2012, Brindas (Rhône)
Sekonic Auto-Lumi L162 selenium cell light meter, used by the photographer to set exposure on 6 of his cameras (which either don't have LM's or don't have working LM's) and to check the light meters on the cameras that have them! This model was the first light meter used by me, but a different sample than his first one. (...which was lost, stolen, or died; I don't remember which!) Yellow tape measure is in inches. Taken in Albany, CA by a Nikon D40x with a Nikon 18-55mm non-VR kit lens. (at 55) Camera's on-board flash fired.
The meter has three modes: bright light (as seen), reduced light (what the dial is set for... the little lid on the front opens up) and dim light. (which has the reduced light lid up, and a booster pops down from the bottom of the meter... which doesn't work on this sample, as the booster doesn't release.)
Meter is set for the film speed most used by me, particularly in medium-format cameras with lenses in the ƒ 3.5 range! (ASA is the same as ISO, for newer photographers out there...)
The red dial is for use with a movie camera, and is the reverse of the black still camera dial - in the still camera's area, the shutter speeds move with the match needle; on the movie camera the f-stop moves...
I'm not sure why this light meter goes all the way to ƒ 1, as only one lens (the Canon 50mm ƒ 0.95, only available for the Canon 7 rangefinder...) had even come close to that figure, at the time this meter was in production! (1969-72...)
A cute little Russian oddity, complete with Cyrilic text. I believe this was released in around 1983, though my case is marked 1992. This would have been outdated technology when it was released in 1983. That's the Soviet Union for you...
Adox Variotone in SE6 Blue
steps from left to right
1. MT3 Vario - bleach 1+200 30 secs, toner 25+7+500ml
2. MT1 Selenium 1+10 3 mins
3. MT7 Iron Blue 2,5+2,5+7+3+900ml 3 mins, clearing bath 2 mins, ammonia 0,01% sol 20secs
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Yashica FX-3 Super 2000. Ilford multigrade IV RC Deluxe. Warmtone developer, slightly selenium toned.
Posemètre (cellule sélénium) pour la photo ou le cinéma fabriqué par Dorn, Neustadt / Weinstrasse Plus d'infos. Vendu par FNAC (Lyon) le 12 juillet 1974.
L'étui est en pur simili.
Decaying smoke stack at the Herring factory in Djupovik, Iceland. Printed on Ilford warmtone with selenium
Scanned Silver Gelatin Print
Ilford Multigrade Paper
Triple Band toned in Sepia/ Selenium
Shot with Ansco Rediflex on 620 film
Not sure why they left this one.....
Hasselblad, 50mm lens, Acros in Pyrocat, printed on Ilford MG fiber with light sepia then complete selenium toning
Posemètre (cellule sélénium) pour la photo ou le cinéma fabriqué par Dorn, Neustadt / Weinstrasse Plus d'infos.
Un exemplaire plus récent est présenté ici.
Brocante du 3 mars 2013, Montrottier (Rhône)