That is the way I remember it. Plus there were so many added
advantages, besides small size, to CdS meters like the ability to
function at low light levels and the ability to measure something as
instantaneous as light from a strobe.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On / April 4, 2008 CE, at 2:37 PM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
>
> Wasn't selenium seen as being convenient but not reliable with age?
> (the kind of timescale we'd now in amazing). I suspect that the issue
> became moot when cameras started to 'need' power for all sorts of
> other functions but the Cadmium cells were seen as a big step forward
> at the time.
> Andrew Fildes
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