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PostPosted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 12:39 am    Post subject: Unusual light meter? Reply with quote
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I assume because it is used by the ABC which is TV,this is a studio light meter...anyone seen one before?


PostPosted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 6:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 11:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
The Collux III is a combined light intensity and colour temperature meter for TV/motion picture studio lighting. As it has a colour temperature meter without absolute readout, probably from the early days of colour television - don't know when that hit Australia.

Nice find if you are into collecting ancient MP and TV technology. But useless otherwise, as it cannot display photo (or even contemporary video) related values like EV, time or aperture. In TV studio use, you did not set the camera to match the light, but set the light to match the camera - generally by flooding the entire studio to 1000lx under meter control. Nor can you use its colour temperature display to determine camera filter factors - it shows only a deviation from standard (presumably whatever lamp type ABC had it calibrated for).


PostPosted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 9:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thanks Sevo...not sure when TV hit OZ.


PostPosted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 10:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sevo, your knowledge is amazing , thank you to being with us!
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