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Welcome Spring Equinox
Presently we still have several inches of snow on the ground. So I share a few images from past Spring Flowers…………
Mining History in Pueblo, CO
Pueblo, Colorado was the location of Colorado’s Steel Industry. Oh, you mean that you didn’t know there was, and to a lesser extent still is a stell industry here. Now mostly oriented towards recycling.
They has=ve a wonderful, but very small museum. dont have any photos because I was using my digital camera which decided to malfunction. OK, I deserve that because I am supposed to be a film photographer, so focussing on film for this trip was a major error.
But I did take along a film camera and did make a few good shots.
This was one of the buildings that survives from the old mining history. It now belongs to the Historical Society and is being remodel as a new headquarters and Museum home.
If you want to lesrn more sbout Pueblo’s History, CLICK HERE.
A Door Near Cathedral Rocks, Arizona
The Old Mill House at the Crescent Moon Ranch Park in Arizona, more famous for the Cathedral Red Rocks.
If you look closely you can see the door, especially in the larger image.
COMO DOORS
Sharin sone B&W images fron a stormy dat in Sith Park, Yes there is a real Sotyh Park, but it’s the name of a valley noy a town.
There IS a Ghost Town (not totally deserted) named Como. It used to be a major hub of the Rail Road, Well start with the Old School House, now the Civic Center:
And also the local Church, I believe it is Methodist. Around here that’s always a good guess:
You can see to the left the home of one of the current residents, Most of the inhabitant live in older cottages from the RR days. Visit the links below for more ty[ical views of Como and the Annual Festival.
COMO IN COLOR
Como Doors
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Last Door for 2020: George Town Visitor’s Center
Have a Merry Christmas and Happy 2021!
Home Safe and Sound
We arrived home safe and sound last night. After being stopped by a storm and multiple accidents in NM the day before, with clear rods and skies we decided to make the ~600 mile drive from Galllup, NM to Boulder County last night. Had some snow on the way, but less than an inch and easily drivable.
No, this wasn’t the snow that greeted us last night. This image is from a late snow last Spring. But still a very comforting view of Home……..
An Armory Door?
Part of an Old Armory in Denver, coverted to a B&B:
Through The Glass: The Long Journey Continues…….
Back to the Mayo Clinic after my local Drs agrrd that they had no immediate explanation for my blindness in the keft eye……
Please Keep me in your Thoughts and Prayers…….
Thoughts on the Reveni Light Meter
The Reveni Labs hot shoe Light Meter is the smallest one we’ve found. But adding ‘mini’ to the name was entirely my idea. It was a Kickstarter that my husband joined a few months ago, and I have to say one that I’ve been most pleased with.
The Reveni Light Meter has an excellent downloadable .PDF manual that starts with the basics of metering and proceeds through to the specifics of this light meter’s operation. Each orders includes a certificate as shown above. I’ll spare you the full description, because the manual can be examined before you make a purchase. A summary of the key feature are below:
The Reveni Light Meter has an excellent downloadable .PDF manual that starts with the basics of metering and proceeds through to the specifics of this light meter’s operation. Each orders includes a certificate as shown above. I’ll spare you the full description, because the manual can be examined before you make a purchase. A summary of the key feature are below:
The Reveni Meter has an ambient reflective meter with a 45 degree cone sensor field. It has a bright OLED display with simple menu and controls (shown below). It has aperture or shutter speed priority settings. Exposure compensation can be set in steps of 1/3 stops in a range of -2 to +2.
Example display of f/16 and an exposure of 4 seconds, representing measurement of the red background material.
The Reveni uses a LR44 battery. It weighs 9 grams including the battery. The first battery is provided (at least for the Kickstarter version). The dimensions: 0.92 in (22.5 mm) x 0.86 in (21.8 mm) x 0.71 in (17.8 mm). Now with the basics in hand, let’s get to the testing.
Light Meter Testing
To test the Reveni Meter I first compared it to my recently refurbished Minolta SRT-101, which included a light meter recalibration. I mounted my f/1.7, 50 mm normal lens for the test. I was exposing Kodak T-MAX 400 @ ISO 200 (E.I. 200). Sometimes I held the f/-stop constant and changed the shutter speed and sometimes I held the shutter sped constant and changed the f/-stop. In both cases my results were consistent. The Minolta Meter was 1/2 to a full stop over exposed compared to the Reveni Meter results in medium to dimmer light. The exposure difference could be as much as 2 f/-stops in bright light or with a lot of glare, as with the first example below. The Reveni doesn’t handle glare as well as the in-camera meter
Both meters agree for the wide open landscapes……..as above.
I also happened to have my X-700 loaded with Ilford HP5 @ ISO 400 (E.I. 400) with a roll of film that I wanted to finish. I had been using this camera to photograph my Birthday Bouquet. So I snapped on the Reveni Meter and did a few comparison images. Here is one example below. The X-700 meter showed a full 2-stop difference.
Final Thoughts
In general, I trust my 35 mm in-camera light meters, especially my refurbished SRT-101 and SRT-202, which were both re-calibrated. And the in-camera meters seemed to handle bright light and glare better. That said, I find no faults with the Reveni Meter and can think of two special cases where I will definitely use it. I have two wonderful cameras that are fully manual with no light meters: my Mamiya 1000s (645 format) and my FujiFilm GW690-III (6X9 mm format). Usually I ‘guess-timate’ an exposure using the sunny-16 reference. But, I’m not alway photographing in bright sunlight, and multiple bracketing exposures are not practical for the GW690-III which only has 8-shots per roll. The Reveni Meter also offer a number of meter carrying options for cameras like the 1000s, that do not have a hot shoe. So they have it all covered. Be on the lookout for future works featuring these cameras and the Reveni Light Meter.
Technical Summary:
Speed: 1hr – 1/8000th sec in 1 stop increments
Aperture Range: F0.7 – f1024 in 1 stop increments
Film ISO Range: ISO 1 – ISO 12800, see “Setting Film ISO” for full list
Speed: 1hr – 1/8000th sec in 1 stop increments
Aperture Range: F0.7 – f1024 in 1 stop increments
Film ISO Range: ISO 1 – ISO 12800, see “Setting Film ISO” for full list
EV Shutter Range: EV 2 – EV 19.5 in 0.1EV increments (@ISO 100)
EV Shutter Range: EV 2 – EV 19.5 in 0.1EV increments (@ISO 100)
Note: Hamish Gill has published a detail and technically oriented review of the REVENI which can be found HERE. Turns out he;s friends withe developer and saw earlier models. Oh well, I had a;ready written this and decided to share it with my followers.
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