Using Your Camera's Built-in Light Meter in Manual Mode

Camera's have many tools to help you figure out what your exposure should be, and this includes the built-in light meter. Your camera's light meter helps you get proper exposures when you're taking a photograph.

The light meter is not only operational during your automatic and semi automatic exposure modes, but in manual exposure mode as well. The video above will guide you in using your light meter to get the exposure that you want.

The light meter reads light differently based on the metering mode that you set it to. You can read more about that here.


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