Samoca light meters
Samoca and later Samoca Camera made various Samoca branded exposure meters. Some are hand-held and others are mounted on a camera's accessory shoe.
 
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| Samoca II mod B bakelite exposure meter images by Simon Spaans (Image rights) | |
 
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| Samoca exposure meters images by Steve Chatfield (Image rights) | |
 
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| 'Clip on' Shoe light meters on Samoca cameras images by Steve Chatfield (Image rights) | |
 
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| Handheld Samoca DeLUXE meter and Samoca Adviser meter images by Steve Chatfield (Image rights) | |
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| Samoca exposure meter images by Nakagi Tsuguhide (Image rights) | |
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| Samoca shoe meter on a Gelto camera images by Steve Chatfield (Image rights) |
Samoca shoe meter (2nd version) on a Samoca camera images by Simon Spaans (Image rights) |
In 1955, the Samoca Automat exposure meter was sold in Japan for ¥5,200, including the leather case.[1]
 
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| Column and advertisement showing the Samoca Automat in Photo Art no.80, June 1955. scanned by rebollo_fr (Image rights) |
Samoca Automat images by Simon Spaans (Image rights) |
Notes
Bibliography
- Photo Art rinji zōkan: Kamera akusesarī zensho (フォトアート臨時増刊・カメラアクセサリー全書, Photo Art special issue: All the camera accessories). June 1955, no.80 of the magazine.
- "Denki roshutsukei" (電気露出計, Electric exposure meters). Pp.102–3.
- Advertisement by Hattori Tokei-ten on p.124.
