I am so glad I found this! Not very many people explain meter needles, let alone the canon at-1. Really appreciate it!

Great video. Your pacing, wording, and visuals all make it super easy to understand.

Irecently got into 8mm and super 8 and now Ive picked up my first 35mm cameras and your videos are super helpful to understand and usefull for the people that are just gettng itroduced to these old formats. Thank you for your videos

the absolute best video on youtube for this. Thank you!

5:42 I look forward to that. I originally came to this video to ask about them. Good stuff

Thank you for all the helpful explanation! I really love your video, you explained it so clear and easy to understand😊

You are doing an awesome job on this channel! I am surprised that you don't have more subs tbh

I inherited a Nikon 8008S from my late grandmother. I've always wanted to try photography with a real camera not on my phone. Thank you for all your videos. They are very interesting and i've found myself binging through them lol.

I was finally able to get some batteries for 35mm camera's I've purchased this year and using the internal light meters for each camera is actually confusing. So I always look for videos on your channel and you've pretty much have covered all of the topics I needed help with so far. Thank you.

Thanks, Noah, that was a very clear explanation of how the match needle meter works.

Thank you, very informative, simple and direct explanation.

Dude this is great. I kind of intuitively knew this but your vid helped clarify things. And showed me that there is a little circle on my camera's light meter, I just never noticed it before! Only saw the line moving around

your videos are a blessing. you are a blessing

Thx exactly what I was looking for

Great video thank you

Thanks for great tutorials!

From my previous comment (I just started film photography (actually photography in general) last week. I have bought Minolta Hi-Matic AF which is a PNS just for me to get useg to it coz I never ever used my phone for photography or any digital means and doesn't know a single digital. Then after finishing one roll with PNS, I used Zenit TTL for manual experience and I just shoot it to my heart's content only using the focusing part to make sure everything is not blurred. Thanks for this basics that I will try applying this to my shots. ) This is very helpful because the Zenit I have has TTL and it is hard to understand what it is for.

amazing video!!

Thanks for the vid very helpful

Thanks, You just answered my question(s) about using the light meter inside the camera in conjunction with that indicator with the circle on the end of it... At 2:22 you said that if there is a lot of light the meter reading indicator points to the extreme top of the meter range and in a dark situation, it points to he very bottom of the meter. One way one could resolve this problem is to make sure one purchases the correct ISO of film (100, 200, 400....) for the time of day you are shooting at. It would not make sense to purchase a 400 ISO film (or higher) For daylight photos Nor would it be practical to use the opposite in a dark location.

Subbed man I’ve just bought a canon AE-1 and I really wanna get better at it so far I’ve been a bit hit and miss and very blurry so thank you sir 🙌🙌🙌subbed!

thank u !!

Thanks for useful info! I got a Fujica with not working light meter and tried "Light Meter" app on iPhone, surpassingly the pictures came out very good. Now I'm not worried about cameras with broken meter and don't have carry to much stuff with me

Good, very good video.

I'd love to see you do a video on Super 8 Light Meters which i've found to be quiet the confusing mess online.

yaass!! minolta x700!! haha great video thank you!

My Olympus OM10 has the same light meter as the Minolta one shown in the video. Could anyone help how to use it? Like there's no needle indicating which is the right exposure, it's just a couple of numbers and a red light.

Thank you for bringing up a very important subject. Unfortunately the culture of auto everything digital has dumbed down photography to such a degree, that some fundamentals of photography have been lost on at least one generation of ' photographers '. IMHO, the first step in understanding what an exposure meter does is to realise, that a meter interprets a subject as an 18% grey. This is how all meters, no matter how simple or sophisticated have been calibrated. It follows that a dark scene needs more exposure to look like an 18% grey card, and vice versa a light scene needs less exposure. The second step is to understand the pattern of light gathering of the sensor. An average meter just averages the scene as 18% grey. A center weighted meter, places more emphasis on the central portion and less on the surround ( For example, a Nikon F3 is heavily center weighted as opposed to a Nikon FM which is much less so ), a spot meter just reads from the central 10, 5 or 1 degree of the scene. Matrix metering, evaluates different zones and comes up with a value and so on. Once the concept of the 18% grey calibration is understood, it is then a lot easier to decide how much lighter or darker a subject would look with different exposure values.

Thank you! I just sub

please, discuss the light meter on the Practica MTL 5 camera. I have a hard time reading it, thank you

If my camera has Aperture check, should I match both needles activating Aperture Check for right exposure?

late comment, i’m new to photography and i would like to know how to set the correct iso on my Nikon F if possible, my viewfinder is the one with the eye at the top left if that info helps ya’ll help me.

Detailed info. : )

Can you do a video on the Canon TLB?

I can't see the light metre. Could you explane how to get it up? Nothing through the view finder. Ugh wish I just got a pentax.

when aligning the circle thing to the needle, should i adjust aperture first and then shutter speed? Or is it the other way around. Or does this not matter?

I have used P&S, SLR's, and Rangefinders. What you say regarding the exposure meter not properly interpreting, for example, a high contrast scene, is very true; especially with the P&S camera's. What sucks is if doesn't have and exposure compensation button. I've also experienced something quite similar using my SLR's. I've taken photos at the beach in A, S, and P modes that were underexposed. The only saving grace is the ability to override the internals and shoot M whole using your own judgement. These fully and partially automated programs are iffy at times. Or at least they appear that way. Lesson learned. For me at least. Some of my better outdoor images were actually taken with my Rangefinder using Sunny 16. Completely manual. Film photography can be fun. But it's sometimes quite the challenge.

I totally forgot how the light meter works for slrs. I'm not sure why but I have no two needles for the AE-1. I only have the straight one but not with the circular one for this camera.

I think my konica autoreflex t3 has a pretty interesting light meter. It has a needle that points to the F number it thinks you you should use. (Unless you have it set to automatic in which case you don't have to touch it.)

3:15 isn’t it the other way around? Don’t you move the indicator up to over expose and down to under expose?

the music background should be slightly low... but hey I loves your video... thanks for the tips

Now does the needle have to always be in the middle, or does the camera get a "perfect exposure" once the needle and ring line up?

What about AE-1 Program? There isn't a needle and its all made with LED's.

Wait so with the Minolta x-700 how do I use the light meter, all I know is it goes up and down

should i do this mach every time im shooting with the same roll of film? cause it changes the mach of the shutter speed and the aperture the camera indicates me to use

my light meter doesnt have the ring-needle. its a canon ae-1. is that a defect or mine just functions in some different way? i understand the red light at the bottom flashes when the light is too low. but nothing happens when its bright? i dont understand how to interpret it.

A light master is built in a camera . it tell you you need to be right in center. Sometime you need more bright because it darker some time you need lessight because it lighter.

I dint get it there's no light metre. How do I turn it on to check?

My Pentax MG don't have this :(

Okay, but what if I don't have the circle thing? I only see the needle. Is something wrong w my camera?

My Aw-1 camera does not have a need with a circle

Hey, good explanation! You could've used a better camera, though... (Tell me why I don't like -mondays- Canon) I didn't know that the AT-1 is a FTb, already. Monster battery for that itsy bitsy lightmeter BTW.

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I don't see an indicator with circle on it.

Anyone else’s meter flipped?

Damn hipsters.

This actually totally wrong The circle only moves when you move the F stop ring on the lens The light meter bar moves with Different lighting Different ISO settings Different Shutter speed settings

Ok, maybe it's just me...but! Your voice type and that loud bass line isn't doing it for me, and the worst part is I want to hear what it you are sharing but that bass is too loud!