Topic: Latest light meter technology...

[Pete_R]

Well probably was decades ago.

This was amongst a bunch of light meters I bought as a job lot. Seems to work fine but I had to take the top off to see what was making all the noise inside.

(click on the image to see the video - not sure why it doesn't play here).


MVI_0440 by Peter Robinson, on Flickr

[Bryan]

What is that thing doing?  Does it control something on a camera?

[Terry]

Spotmeter with a motorized zoom?

[Kayos]

Thats fantastic, my guess was going to be it moved the sensor to cover a bigger area?

[Kai-san]

Could it be a remote controlled spy camera disguised as a light meter?   
I'm quite sure I've seen that contraption before, but I cannot remember where. Does it have a brand name?

[Francois]

What surprises me is that it still works!

[Pete_R]

It's a spot meter. Minolta Auto Spot 1. I guess the motor moves a potentiometer until a bridge is balanced. The needle in the viewfinder moves too and wherever it stops, that's your reading. But it only reads in Foot Lamberts. I think it's a movie version. There was another version that gave a EV reading I think.

[Indofunk]

Foot Lamberts

[hookstrapped]

Foot Lamberts

Band name

[Indofunk]

Foot Lamberts

Band name

Horrible band name. Better insole technology name.

[Terry]

That's one hell of a big needle!

[Francois]

Foot Lamberts

Band name

Horrible band name. Better insole technology name.

Somehow makes me think about a local cough syrup

[Indofunk]

Foot Lamberts

Band name

Horrible band name. Better insole technology name.

Somehow makes me think about a local cough syrup

Buy the full line of Lambert products! Sirop Lambert, Foot Lamberts, and of course the combination salad dressing, body lotion, and paint thinner - Multi Lambert!

[Francois]

All available in the same great taste of used motor oil and fir oil...

[Pete_R]

I'm sure you all know this anyway but for the record...

"The lambert (symbol L, la or Lb) is a non-SI unit of luminance named for Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728–1777), a Swiss mathematician, physicist and astronomer. A related unit of luminance, the foot-lambert, is used in the lighting, cinema and flight simulation industries. The SI unit is the candela per square metre (cd/m²)."

So anyone from the lighting, cinema or flight simulation industries interested in buying a fully working dinosaur light meter?

[Adam Doe]

Just add vermouth and an olive for a Lambertini.

[Francois]

I'm sure you all know this anyway but for the record...

"The lambert (symbol L, la or Lb) is a non-SI unit of luminance named for Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728–1777), a Swiss mathematician, physicist and astronomer. A related unit of luminance, the foot-lambert, is used in the lighting, cinema and flight simulation industries. The SI unit is the candela per square metre (cd/m²)."

So anyone from the lighting, cinema or flight simulation industries interested in buying a fully working dinosaur light meter?

I thought the measure involved pouring 1 foot of Sirop Lambert on a table and using the meter to check out the measurement... or something like that...

Maybe you could re-scale the meter to make it useful?

[Indofunk]

I'm sure you all know this anyway but for the record...

"The lambert (symbol L, la or Lb) is a non-SI unit of luminance named for Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728–1777), a Swiss mathematician, physicist and astronomer. A related unit of luminance, the foot-lambert, is used in the lighting, cinema and flight simulation industries. The SI unit is the candela per square metre (cd/m²)."

So anyone from the lighting, cinema or flight simulation industries interested in buying a fully working dinosaur light meter?

I thought the measure involved pouring 1 foot of Sirop Lambert on a table and using the meter to check out the measurement... or something like that...

Maybe you could re-scale the meter to make it useful?

No no no, you rub Multi Lambert onto your foot and judging from how far you jump up in pain, that's your reading.