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From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>)
Newsgroups: net.rec.photo
Subject: Re: \"Match-needle\"
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Date: Tue, 7-May-85 12:30:15 EDT
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Posted: Tue May  7 12:30:15 1985
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> The term "match-needle" was applied to cameras where you matched a needle
> against a single index mark long before there WERE cameras that displayed,
> for example, a shutter speed scale in the viewfinder with a green bar
> indicating the "recommended" exposure.  I suppose this newfangled innovation
> could legitemately be called match-needle, but it ain't what the term
> originally meant.
> 
I always thought it was originally applied to the center the needle on
the bullseye paddle that some camera used because the correct exposure
position on the meter varied.  I don't know what moved the bullseye. I
never had one of these.  My old PENTAX took the film speed into account
and you always cenetered the needle rather than trying to match it.

-Ron