I use a Sekonic L-208, which comes with a cold-shoe mount and fits comfortably on top of the Bolex. It’s an incident meter, but the diffuser slides away and it can operate as a reflected light meter as well. It’s kind of like a dumbed-down version of the Studio Deluxe, and I find it’s pretty simple and very fast to get a reading. It only has photo camera speeds marked, but since a Bolex shutter is 1/65th of a second at 24fps (right?), the mark at 1/60 is a fair approximation.
The only down side is that the right-side button is a little hard to access when it’s mounted on the camera, but otherwise it’s great — and relatively cheap. If you had a 90-degree shoe adaptor to mount it sideways, it would be even better. -Nathaniel > On Apr 24, 2023, at 4:32 AM, Todd Eacrett <[email protected]> wrote: > > > There are a plethora of modern shoe-mount meters out there, but they're > generally designed for view- or range-finder 35mm still cameras (Leica, etc) > and too wide to fit on a Bolex. > > Not exactly "modern," but how about the 60-year-old Gossen-built purpose-made > Bolex meter? It sits in the cold shoe and is calibrated for the reflex light > loss. I still use one (accurate according to my fancy digital meter) and it > works as well as "sunny 16" when I'm in a hurry. > > > On Sun, Apr 23, 2023, at 10:50 AM, Julian Antos wrote: >> Does anyone have any recommendations for a small, modern light meter that >> could be mounted to a Bolex (or any other 16mm camera, for that matter)? >> My current setup for my "home movies" is either a Sekonic Studio Deluxe II, >> which is wonderful and accurate but I still fumble around with if I need a >> reading in a hurry, or my iPhone with the Cine-Meter app, which is accurate >> enough for my purposes when calibrated to the Sekonic meter, but again is >> still a bit of a nuisance to use if I need a reading in a real hurry. >> >> The answer is probably just that I should get quicker at using these >> devices, but it also seems that the perfect solution must have been devised >> for this. Also curious to hear what other people may be using. >> -- >> Julian Antos >> Chicago Film Society >> www.chicagofilmsociety.org <http://www.northwestchicagofilmsociety.org/> >> 773 827 8991 >> >> >> >> -- >> Frameworks mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org >> <https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org> >> > > -- > Frameworks mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org > <https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org>
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