Nick Cooke

I'm thinking of buying this light meter; Tecpel DLM-530 Light Meter This will give me my light reading in Lux right? Is this suitable, before I spend my cash? Am I right in thinking that that approx (rounded); 1000Lx is equal to F2, 2000Lx is equal to F2.8, skipping on a bit 50,000Lx is F16? etc... Obviously this would require a lot of maths when working out the stop, am I right in my madness. Is there any easyer way? Thanks, Nick

Thats a great help thanks, i'm going to get out and try a few test shots, really cleared things up for me. Nick

I've recently ventured onto using film, as opposed to DV, and have realised that my basic understanding of the way the Digital camera works, doesn't help me when shooting on film. So I wondered if you could help me clear this up... I think I'm close, just getting digital techniques and stills film mixed. For example if your shooting a close up of a face with a small depth of field example 2.6, seperating the face from the background, then you switch to a wide shot of 22. How do you get the two to match with out the exposure being completely different but still keeping the depth of field the same? I believe the answer is in an ND? As you can see I'm a little lost, thanks, Nick