Bewi Super L Meter

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• May 23, 2013

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I'm thinking of buying a Bewi Super L light meter but before i need to know if it gives exposure values of more than 30 minutes.
I've tried to look for this information but nothing so far, hope anyone here can help me.
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The scale of the Bewi Super goes up to one hour, but this alone does not say anything about its sensitivity.


http://www.jollinger.com/photo/meters/images/ads/Bertram/bertram-bewi-super(1965).jpg

 

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hm...
I'm going to photograph with ektar 100, inside a camera obscura

 

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In general, a lightmeter will not give you directly exposure times in 10's of minutes. Neither will it have provisions for the f-numbers of a pinhole camera (camer obscura). But that is the easy part: say, meter indicates 1/125 f/16.
"Equivalent" (read below) exposures: 1/2sec f/128, 1sec f/180, 2sec f/256, etc... but only a starting point.

The hard part is reciprocity law failure. And the meter won't help, even if it has markings up to 30min and f/256.

 

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the link you sent is for the Bewi Super, the one i am talking about is the Bewi Super L...

 

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yes, the reciprocity failure is yet another thing i'm trying to solve. can't find experiments on more than 5 minutes exposures

 

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bernard_L said:

In general, a lightmeter will not give you directly exposure times in 10's of minutes. Neither will it have provisions for the f-numbers of a pinhole camera (camer obscura). But that is the easy part: say, meter indicates 1/125 f/16.
"Equivalent" (read below) exposures: 1/2sec f/128, 1sec f/180, 2sec f/256, etc... but only a starting point.

The hard part is reciprocity law failure. And the meter won't help, even if it has markings up to 30min and f/256.

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I'm am shooting with a Sinar, inside a camera obscura (my room) so the f-numbers are not the pinhole. I just needed to know if the Bewi Super L would work in such a weak light...

 

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-) to my knowledge (Internet...) the Super and the Super L have the same metering circuit

-) I don't know the sensitivity of that meter. Someone could check against one of those most sensitive meters. But that won't help you as you don't know yet the luminance in question...

 

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AgX said:

-) to my knowledge (Internet...) the Super and the Super L have the same metering circuit

-) I don't know the sensitivity of that meter. Someone could check against one of those most sensitive meters. But that won't help you as you don't know yet the luminance in question...

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i'm not really pro in this photographic concepts: what do you mean with luminance?
I've already made some photographs in the dark room but with digital, i know to relation between the sensitity of the digital to the analog is not very diferent (except in the reciprocity failure thing), i am now simullating with the digital what may happen with the sinar...but it still isnt very accurated

 

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Luminance = "Brightness" of your subject (in this case the reflection from your chamber wall.

For proper working of that meter you need a mercury battery. Have you got one??
(Or a well made electronic substitute?)

I just checked my sample:
the needle starts to move about 1/2 stop outside the range of that red digit one has to operate (which I intreprete of sign of good working condition).
And that most extreme position is equivalent to

1h @ f32 @ 100ASA

The sensitivity of that meter would thus be EV +2 .

 

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AgX said:

Luminance = "Brightness" of your subject (in this case the reflection from your chamber wall.

For proper working of that meter you need a mercury battery. Have you got one??
(Or a well made electronic substitute?)

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No, one more thing to buy...
Right now with digital I am shooting at ISO 100, f.10 and 1h30m
if the meter only gives 1hour, with ISO/ASA 100 it would probably give f5...no?

 

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It seems that Bewi Super meter is still within your range...