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Selenium photocell Meter made between 1938 - 1947 in Manchester UK
Cost about £3.18/6 in 1939
the box is about 2" square by 1" deep
Caracteristicas:
- Diâmetro da Boca: 1"
- Potência RMS (W): 75
- Potência Prog. Musical (W): 200
- Impedância (ohms): 8
- SPL 1 W @ 1m (dB): 107
- Resp. Freq. @-10 dB (Hz): 400 a 9k
- Peso do Ímã (g): 332
- Diâmetro da Bobina (mm): 51
- Freq. Corte a 12 dB/Oit (Hz): 1000
- Corneta Usada nos Testes: HL14-25
- Material do Diafragma: Fenólico
- Conexão com a Corneta: Rosca
- Material da Tampa/Base: Alumínio
View from the top of Minnehaha Falls, looking towards the gorge beyond.
(I'm in love with the selenium tone option in Adobe Lightroom, as you can no doubt tell.)
Pentax 645 / Hassy 110mm/2
Acros / Germain 1:3 7.5min
Durst L1200 / CLS 500 / EKTAR 75mm
Bergger Silver Supreme
Selenium toning
This is my new elegant beautiful classic camera: Canon Demi half-frame 28mm f/2.8 lens (5 elements in 3 groups), match-needle selenium exposure meter which use a behind-the-lens light value program for accurate metering. Dimensions & Weight: 115 x 68 x 37mm 380g. It arrived today and is full working, almost new, lightmeter is working, new light seals with a skylight filter! It is ready to use, I will post soon some pictures.
Shot in the rain in June. Tachihara 4x5, Acros in Pyrocat, Ilford MG fiber paper with light sepia and selenium toning
It is an AE rangefinder with around-the-lens selenium censor and has similar red flag thing as Olympus Trip 35, preventing the shutter when there is not enough light.
Some other specs (from manual) :
Asa : 10-200
Lens : Hexanon 40mm f/2.8-f/22
Shutter : Seiko 1/30s-1/250s
Flash sync at 1/30s.
Manual over ride at f/2.8 and 1/30s.
(Shot with expired Polaroid 664 with Polaroid 600SE + 127mm @ f/4.7)
We did a lot of the stand here and do this, touristy shots. The goal here was to get the water skier in the background.
This trail circled the entire lake, and met up with other branches. Needless to say I now have a great appreciation of Madison.
DERELICTION - a derelict watchmans hut standing on the Old Pier, Pier Head, Liverpool. The hut was finally destroyed during a fierce storm in 2018. Printed on HP Advance paper, selenium toned in Photoshop and hand-painted with acrylics.
Serial Number: MOP-0004
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Rangefinder Kiev 4 (KNEB subtype 2a)
sn# 5922914 with Jupiter-8M (ЮПИТЕР-8M) f/2 50mm sn #5930926
manufactured in 1959 by the Arsenal factory in Kiev (Ukraine)
The selenium light meter still works and is quite accurate!
Contax copy, made in 1959
Subtype 2a rarity: 3 out of 5
© Dirk HR Spennemann 2011, All Rights Reserved
Small amounts of remaining selenium on steel loop oxidizes readily when heated and the vapor burns in contact with aerated butane flame with a bright blue flame, forming acidic fumes of selenium dioxide. Selenium does not continue to burn when the gas flame is removed.
The solar bar of the calculator conatins the element Selenium.
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Nikon FM, Nikkor 28mm f/2.8 AI.
Ilford HP5+ @ 125EI, developed in Ilfotec LC-29 1+29.
Kentmere Fineprint VC FB glossy paper, developed in Ilford Multigrade 1 + 9.
Harman Selenium toner 1 + 3 for 60 seconds
I put this in this folder to compare a conventional print to the lith version. Most prefer this or a cold tone version. I like the lith...go figure....Forte Polywarmtone toned in selenium, 35mm Tri-x
The Gossen Bisix Lightmeter.
Up front there is a big selenium cell which powers the needle in the meter.
No battery needed !
There is only 1 range so i guess this was ment to be a low-cost meter designed for the amateur photographer.
The Filmsensivity scale goes from 12 ASA (12DIN) till 1600 ASA (33DIN).
The Shutterspeed Scale goes from 1/1000 till 15 Seconds.
The Aperture Scale from 2 till 22.
Spiratone Type NE-1 selenium Exposure Meter manual. The manual can be downloaded here. Spiratone NE-1 Exposure Meter MANUAL (8 page manual, 14 MB)
Lith Print
Paper: Kodak Ektalure X (tweed texture) 8x10, expired 1983
Developer: Moersch SE5
Toner: Ilford Selenium 1:4
Camera: Bronica SQ-A, 80mm 2.8
Film: FP4+ in ID-11
Lighting: only a 200 watt clear incandescent light bulb
I'm not entirely happy with this. I wanted a somewhat softer look. I may have sharpened too aggresively.
Seen and taken at Langstone with canon 7D2 and the 500mm prime. Yet to decide whether I prefer the tinted version or the original !
A selenium meter made by Dr. Siegfried Guggenheimer AG in 1933 in Nuremberg, Germany.
(More pictures of this and other meters on my site www.kolumbus.fi/puistot/collection.)
The colour has been leached from the berries by the red filter, and from the leaves by reflected infrared light. Albino holly?
Nikon FE with Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 AI, medium red filter.
Kodak HIE High Speed Infrared developed in Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 for 8 minutes at 20C.
Printed on Kentmere Fineprint VC Glossy FB developed in Ilford Multigrade 1+9 for 90 seconds.
Harman Selenium toner 1+3 for 90 seconds.
Hasselblad 50mm Distagon, SFX in eco film developer
Some technical stuff again
The tone of Adox Nuance and Fotokemika EMAX is more or less greenish in Amidol depending on the antifog agents
Adox Nuance in two tray Amidol (Benzotriazole and Sodium bromide) 75 secs & Catechol (1+9 5ml Finisher Blue per liter working solution) 20 secs
some like greenish tones, others not
to achieve a homogeneous selenium picture tone from lights to shadows, a pretoning with thiourea is required
MT3 Vario Schwefeltoner and MT1 Selenium toner
bleach 1+100 30 secs, toner MT3 (A) followed by selenium 1+20 30 secs
If the selenium toner is omitted, the hue is only lightly warmer
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I see this tree almost every day on my way back home from work. Last week I finally manged it to go there with my camera. Shot taken with the 503CW on Kodak Tri-X@400 developed in Xtol. Print prepared on Forte Polywarmtone RC with Moersch SE1 Sepia, MT1 Selenium and MT3 Sulphide toner.
Another portrait for you today that was taken in the training session. Comments would be appreciated! :D
The Shot
- Canon EOS 1Ds MK III
- Cannon 24mm - 105mm L Series @ 55mm
- ISO 100 | f314 | 1/125 | Auto Focus
- Bowens Soft Box In front Top Right
The Processing
- Selenium Filter added in Adobe Lightroom 3
- Exposure and Black levels applied in Adobe Light Room 3 (Beta)
- Dodging & Burning
- Curves Adjustment (For Contrast)
- A little Unsharp Mask on the Background Layer