Posted by rick oleson on May 23, 2000 at 06:28:13:
In Reply to: help with canon ae1 light meter posted by stephen clover on May 23, 2000 at 05:07:52:
The Canon AE1 is an exceptionally lousy camera to use in the manual mode, but it can be done.
With your lens set to manual aperture settings, but the depth-of-field preview off, the meter will point to the aperture that the camera thinks is correct. But you can't see what the lens is set to, so you have to take the camera away from your eye, select the aperture , recompose and hope the lighting hasn't changed (this is the way it was done in the 1950's, but pretty tedious by late-1970's standards).
If you engage the depth-of-field preview, I think there's an index mark near the f/5.6 position on the meter scale, that you have to align the meter needle with. This is more convenient for metering, but if you're working at a small aperture the finder can get pretty dim.
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