1 The Director of Photography – an overview

106 Practical Cinematography
Figure 10.3 My own collection of
meters
as you don’t need to choose between a meter with a still photography
or movie type scale, the new meter does both, and it also has the added
improvement of the spot meter reading showing in the viewfinder.
Remarkably, the optical path for the spot meter in these meters suffers
from no discernible flare, the bane of most spot meters, this despite
having a four-to-one zoom facility built in.
Figure 10.3 shows my own collection of meters, which are all in regular
use on a daily basis.They are, from bottom left going clockwise, my
Cinemeter II, the Seconic 508 C Zoom Master, the Pentax Digital
Spotmeter and, though not strictly an exposure meter, my Minolta
Colour Temperature Meter.