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Watkins Meter Co

From Graces Guide
September 1912.
1925

Watkins Meter Company, maker of photographic light meters and other accessories, of Hereford.

  • 1890 founded by Alfred Watkins after he received a patent on his light meter. The Watkins Bee Meter was shaped like a pocket watch. It showed a small piece of light-sensitive paper in a slit. The time for darkening the piece of paper was used to calculate appropriate exposure time with the help of calculation scales.

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