 Bonnie Downes |
how to use a light meter? Okay, this is a silly question, but I received a DigiSix light meter for Christmas and I have been trying to find reading information on how to use this thing. I know that I can hold it infront of the subject being photographed or I can measure the amount of light my off-camera flash gives off. But What do I do once I hold the meter infront of the subject...how do I use it to set my off-camera flash and my camera to give the right amount of light? Or do I have this all wrong?
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
Not a silly question. Sounds like you don't have an instruction manual with it. There should be a button that you push to get a reading for ambient light. And for reading flash, there should be a plug for a sync cord that you can plug in from your flash, and when you push the button I mentioned before, it should fire off the flash so you can get a reading. I have a minolta flash meter and that's how mine is, and it also has a non sync way of reading. That way I don't have a sync cord connected, I push the button on the meter, and it reads the light whenever I shoot off my flash. I'll look up a digisix on adorama and see if I can help by looking at it.
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
Didn't see it but I wouldn't see why any other flash meter wouldn't work the same way.
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Bonnie Downes |
Thanks...So what ever reading I get...say 5.6 I need to make sure that is what is set on my camera?
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
If you're reading ambient light, you should set on the light meter the same film speed that you're using as well as what shutter speed and the meter will give you the correct f-stop. Metering a flash, you should set the film speed the same and the shutter speed somewhere near the same as your cameras sync speed. It dosen't have to be exactly the same when metering a flash, because flash is more dependent on f-stop. But if you have a sync speed at 1/60, don't have the flash meter at 1/500. 1/30,1/125,1/200 won't make a difference.
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