There's a pop-out lens which looks out at the scene, so you aim it at what you want to measure and read the light level on the meter. It looks like a make-up compact you pop open the top and hold it in the palm of your hand at waist-level and look down on the meter face.

Bertram Kamera, also marketed as Bertram Lensmaster Camera in the US. An earlier version simply says 'Electro Bewi' on it, and is pre-World War II.

Bertram Meters Bewi Piccolo, Chrolon, Electro Bewi, Senior Bewi, Tele-Bewi Biddle, J. In the United States, Bertram Bewi exposure meters were imported and distributed by Gem-Klein Photo Corporation, which was acquired by GAF and merged into another GAF subsidiary, Lenco. Super Takumar, Super Takumar, Super-Takumar, 135 mm, Takumar. Bertram Bewi Super L Light/Exposure Meter & Leather Case, Light, Box & Manual eBay. (Rumpoldin would leave for Agfa in 1956.) Tokina Manual Focus Wide Angle DSLR Camera Lenses eBay. Later Ernst Rumpoldin came to the company from Linhof, and helped develop an unusual press camera, called Bertram Kamera, released in 1951. The first model sold (in 1930), the Bewi, was designed by Ernst Bertram (1886–1974) the Elektro-Bewi of 1935 was designed by Ernst's brother Wilhelm Bertram (1903–1990).Īt some time in the mid-century, Paul Will left and Wilhelm Bertram moved in, thereby forming E.

Leiner left in 1928, and Paul Will took over the company in the same year, adding the manufacture of light meters. Leiner & Bertram was started in 1919 by Ludwig Leiner and Ernst Bertram, as a workshop making camera shutters.

Ernst & Wilhelm Bertram, also known by its brand name Bewi, is a German light meter manufacturing company.

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