All right, welcome. Today we're going to be reviewing the basic functionality of the Minota incident light meter. We're going to be learning what all these buttons mean and how to set it up to take incident light meter readings for your productions. The first thing we want to do is, of course, turn the light meter on. And in this situation, we see three indicators that tell us how this light meter is functioning. We have our mode, which right now is set to ambient. We have our time, which refers to our shutter speed or our frame rate. And we have ISO, which refers to the exposure index or speed of our film. First, we want to make sure that we are indeed on ambient mode, which is indicated by AMBI ambient. If it doesn't indicate that, say, for example, you power it up and it's on non-C or a cord, you just press the mode button here on the lower right until it gives you ambient. After making sure the light meter is set to the ambient mode, we want to make sure that our frame rate is set properly. Right now, the number 500 refers to a photographic shutter speed, which is not entirely appropriate for motion picture photography. So to do that, we simply look on this side of the light meter and we see these toggle buttons here up and down. And we're going to be going up with that and cycling through the shutter speed settings past 8,000. And then you see that we switched from time to sine. And sine then indicates that we are dealing with frame rates, which is appropriate for motion picture photography. And 24 frames per second is the standard. So we have that set. So now we're in ambient mode, we have our frame rate set. And now we're going to be setting our ISO or exposure index to match the film that we'll be using. To do that, I hold down the ISO button, which is right there. And again, I'm going to go back to these toggle buttons up and down. And that allows me to change exposure index. So if we are shooting with 50D, we see we have 50. We're shooting with 100T, 200T, 250D, 500T, all of those are examples. And when I have it set to my satisfaction, I release the ISO button. And it remains set at that exposure index. Now that we've properly set our light meter to take basic ambient readings for motion picture photography, that includes setting it to the ambient mode, making sure that it's on the sine function, 24 frames per second. And we've also set our ISO to match our film speed. Now we're ready to go ahead and take a light meter reading. And what you do this in a basic way, you use this globe, which takes an average of all light sources, striking it from all angles. So to take a basic light meter reading, you would hold this light meter at your subject, aim the globe toward camera, and press this button on the side. Doing that gives you two sets of numbers. The first number here, 5'6", indicates an aperture setting on your aperture ring. So all those numbers will match to 28, 456, 8, 11, 16, 22, so on and so forth. The second number you see there, an 8, indicates how close or far away that is to the next aperture setting. So those numbers range from zero to nine. In this case, because it's an 8, that indicates to me that it is almost toward a T8 on my aperture. It's just shy of a T8. So it's 80% the way there. So I would probably call this more of a T8 rather than a T5-6. So those were those numbers signify there. You can also hold this button down and move the light source or move the light meter away from the light source or toward the light source. And you see those numbers changing based on my proximity to the light source there. So that's a little added function that the light meter has. And that concludes our basic tutorial on the Minilta Digital Light Meter. Have fun.