A scroll of mail from Collin Brendemuehl
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sun, 18 Mar 2001 18:01:11 -0500
Read it? y
>I believe you'll find all of the pure mechanial bodies
>to be stepless. The detents are in the dials only, and not
>in the mechanism. The linkage is linear between them --
>there are no gear swaps like in a transmission. The net
>result is that, if you want an exact result based on a
>spot meter reading, a particular film and developing method,
>and a particular paper (for those who are into this precision),
>then you can get it here.
So these things are analog computers? That makes a lot of sense. Are
newer camera meters digital and lacking that smoothness of response to
light?
dave
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