How do I get my light meter to work?
Hold your meter in front of your subject, pointing towards light that is illuminating them (not towards the camera). Now simply press the metering button to read the light measurement. With multiple lights sources, you can measure them individually by pointing the meter towards each one.
What is a Minolta Auto Meter?
The Auto Meter III was the first fully electronic version with LCD display and measurement-result memory. The Auto Meter series was succeeded in 1983 by the Minolta Auto Meter F series which extended functionality of the Auto Meters to flash exposure measuring.
Do light meters need to be calibrated?
Calibrating your light meter is necessary, as the accuracy of the measurements drop over time and can eventually lead to an out-of-tolerance condition.
How do you test a light meter for accuracy?
To test any reflected meter for accuracy, you can go outside on a sunny and entirely clear day, near the middle of the day. Meter a grey card in direct sunlight, with the card at a 45 degree angle to the Sun; make sure the card is free of glare and shadows. Fill the metering pattern entirely with the card.
How do you test a light meter?
Hold the grey card up in front of a subject and shoot it in black and white. Find a comparable tone with the grey card and meter both that part of the subject and the grey card and see what you get. You can then meter up and down zones and see how they fall by comparing to some sort of zone strip.
What light meter reads light that bounces off the subject?
An incident light meter measures the light falling on the subject, and will be the same no matter what, unless you change the intensity of the actual light. A reflective light meter, on the other hand, measures the intensity from that 1,000-watt light after it’s been reflected off of the subject.
What is an analog light meter?
Analog light meters work the same way that digital light meters do, except they give you readings on an analog measurement scale rather than on a digital screen. You can purchase analog light meters that will take incident light readings, reflected light readings, or both.