How I Meter Light for Film Photography.

Today I'm showing you how I meter light when shooting film. This is a question I've received so often in the comments that I decided to just briefly break down the process in a short video - I hope this helps you out :)

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[teocrawford]

Hello hello,
I hope this answers a couple questions and can help you out on your film photography journey! :)

Have good rest of the week,
Teo

[pangpengmaster]

teo still has android users in mind, love this broo

[weisserth]

An important aspect missed here is reciprocity failure of films for longer exposures. When shooting night scenes, you need to factor that in, there are dedicated apps for that as well.

[FreeTheFresh]

Been using this app for months, had NO IDEA that you could adjust the exposure when taking the reading, such a good tip!

[sariahfelix]

learning film for the first time so this is super helpful! thank you

[xxlegolas_]

Thanks for sharing this! You have been the biggest influence in me taking interest in film photography and actually doing it. Have a great day!

[KarinaAgapi]

I was feeling so lost about this, this helped me soooo much!

[MoLetalis]

Love how you basically use the mirrorless camera on your phone to meter and preview your composition to shoot analog film.

[psajgal]

An important note on the android app. On some phones the camera reading overexposes by like two stops. If you can, take a reading from your digital camera and adjust the EV tab in the app so you get the same reading (or maybe only like 0.5 over). You could also use the incident feature, if you're doing portraits (in my experience it's way more accurate).

[Wrzlprnft]

Oh, i am looking forward to watching this one. I am still fairly new and just trying various things with my camera and film. i haven't really done much lower light city or fog types of pictures, so i am curious to your approach as i really like your results.

[Mr.ReanuKeeves]

Just like to add something that people might not know of or could be useful but if you're using your built in camera app the "PRO" mode has the manual and auto settings which can also be useful to tell you the light metering.

[mopey]

Thank you for the brief explanation. Your videos are great. 😃

[j.c.]

thanks, Teo, for using a Praktica SLR in this video 👍

[adrians]

Thanks, just got my first SLR few days ago!

[bdeno]

Love these short tech videos, keep ‘‘em coming

[Sara-tpzd]

all the videos I watched earlier were a complete waste of time! Thank you for your help!

[julietaluciaibarra]

teo your voice is so soothing for tutorials

[DerekPhilippon]

DO you set the ISO to the box speed or do you set it to what how your pushing it on the camera? SO if I'm running Portra 400 at 200 on my camera do I have to account for that?

[uskyen]

When you took those shots, did you overexpose your image, or did you just set the settings that the app told you to?

[PTRK]

Do you have alternative light meter app? Because this one you use, Lghtmtr, keeps crashing on my iPhone 12. Very annoying!