sverdlovsk-4 cds light meter
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The
Sverdlovsk-4 is a compact CDS-cell meter.
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The meter
works by illuminating a little LED light just at the point where exposure
is correct as you turn the thumb-knob on the top right-hand corner.
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At that point, the shutter speed gauge is lined up with appropriate
apertures along the aperture gauge. It is thus a one-handed operation,
and a functioning copy of this meter would certainly be very handy to
use, given its compact size.
There is also a little flip-down
light diffuser to take incident light readings.
Update:
Just when I thought I'd read everything there is to read in the massively
informative Alfred's
Camera Pages, I stumbled across another important tidbit I'd missed
from his in-depth
Sverdlovsk 4 page: how to callibrate this meter! Thanks to Alfred,
my '4 is now working perfectly. Following the callibration steps described
there involves playing twister with your fingers as you try to hold
down this, press that, and twist the other thing... but the end result
is well worth it.
