What Your Light Meter is Trying to Tell You, Pt. 1 Get Started With Film Photography

In order to properly expose the film in your camera, you need to know how much light is falling on the scene you are trying to make a picture of. You can use your camera's built-in light meter, a hand-held dedicated meter or even your own eyes to determine that amount of light but measuring that light is only part of the story. In this episode, I discuss how to use the data from the light meter to get the right exposure settings to your camera. Most of the time, you can simply transfer the readings to the shutter speed and aperture controls but sometimes you need to adjust those readings. I will tell you how in this episode. 

Toward the end of the episode I talk about a device called a gray card. Here is a link to one on B and H Photo's website:  

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1039483-REG/dgk_color_tools_dgkr27xt_dgkr27_xt_digital_grey_card.html

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