I’m 62 and my father taught me the “Sunny 16” rule when I was 6 or 7 years old. It has severed me very well for over 50 years.. Negative or slide film. Every time I pull out an actual meter, it just confirms the settings that are in my brain.
Recently I have started using a Canon G10 for a meter when forgot to bring one of my three light meters along with me😢. The Canon works great to both preview and meter a scene.
Of course you handsome! Okay, metering. I use the exposure preview on the Fuji x100, as well as the Nikon Z 6. I trust the light meters of the M6 (those red arrows, now with a center dot in the re-issue) and especially the F3. I use the F3 for 40 years, so I rather feel what her meter tells me. My workhorses are D3, I shoot with them in usually harsh light conditions changing between 1/30 and 1/1000 in one setting a lot. Usually I use three bodies with an 17-35, an 80-200 and a 300, all ƒ2.8 together, which all need their own little tweaking of the meter, usually to about a quarter or a half stop. The most trouble I had when starting 4x5 last year, always underexposing while using a Gossen meter. Reveni labs came to the rescue, with its spot meter. Incredibly it has the zone system built in, next to other modes. And finally I understood what Ansel had in mind ;)) So while there a lot of different tools in the mix, I think it is totally cool to meter with a digicam and be done with it.
Interesting but I won't be metering my film cameras with a digital camera any time soon. It's just not Feng Shui .I meter my film cameras with the inbuilt meter using the Zone system mainly focusing on the shadows . It works for me. Cheers!
Nice topic for a video! Doesn't get talked about enough🙂 I've been shooting long exposures on Provia and Velvia for like 20 years now (yikes) and with those films, I just trust the camera meter or use a small, cheap digital like you. The don't have much reciprocity failure, so that's a good technique. Nikon FE, F3 etc have excellent built in meters for long exposures, I've been using this a lot. And if it's 30 seconds or less, Canon EOS stuff from the 90's.
When you're using your digital camera, do you set your ISO on your camera to be that of the film stock you're using or just go off of whatever ISO/shutter/fstop your digital camera uses?
absolutely. sometimes i will set the exposure compensation plus one or two stops if i’m overexposing the film on purpose. just depends. usually keep the iso set to the iso of the film.
