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That's a fair explanation Huw. However, I still wonder whether there may be another (less technical) explanation for the randomised pattern that didn't appeal to the marquetry people, but was necessary nonetheless.

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I don't think it was a random pattern, I think it was the same on every camera.

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Yes, I'm sure it was, or very similar (depending on how the shutter curtains were made and cut).

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Why shouldn't an apparently random pattern be used, it makes as much sense as anything else?

Surely modern "evaluative" meter patterns work more or less the same way?

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Yes. And at microscopic level, even white dots would have randomly arranged particles of TiO2 in them.