English Language Teaching in Japan
Light meter and View Finder
| This is the first and most important thing to help you use the A (aperture), S (shutter speed), and M (manual) settings on your camera. Luckily, it's easy. |
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| The image below shows you basically how an SLR might look through the viewfinder. Despite all cameras being different, they are all pretty much almost the same. First, in the image below, can you spot the light meter? Can you guess what the other numbers are? |
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| The numbers are Shutter Speed, and
Aperture respectively. The scale, 2 -1-0-1-2 is the light meter.
Interestingly, on my
first camera, the light scale was a needle pointing on a scale of - o +. On this scale, to the left is too dark / not enough light; to the right is too much light. And of course '0' means 'just right'. |
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| On this light meter, we see a small bar just above it. Here, it shows that there'll be too much light coming in. So, to fix this, we could reduce the shutter speed until the bar is close to 0, and perhaps the aperture as well (more on this in later pages). |
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| Now, click on these to see clearly the results of the pictures taken with these light meter settings: |
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| Click on the picture, right, to see how
to adjust aperture on this camera. Have a look at your camera and try it out. When you do, have it set to either, S, A, or M. |
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> For eventually switching to M for Manual, use 'A' or 'S' for a while, and get to know what settings are used to adjust the light meter, and in what light conditions. |
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