Watameter

Watameter was a widely-sold German brand of accessory rangefinders. A Watameter II could be used to measure distances between 55cm and infinity. It could be attached to a camera's accessory shoe.

Watameters were produced by the company Edmund Wateler in Braunschweig.

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Super-Watameter was the deluxe version, in which the distance sould be read directly in the viewfinder.

Watameter was also sold under the TELEX brand.

Links

• Watameter user manual (in German) at Butkus.org
• Watameter II at Kurt Tauber's Kameramuseum