I just purchased a Sekonic L-358 light meter. It works great, but I cannot match all my shutter speeds to my camera. My camera can produce a variety of shutter speeds, 100, 125, 160, etc, but the light meter can only produce a limited number of shutter speeds. It jumps from 125/sec to 250/sec with nothing in the middle of thos numbers like 160/per sec. I cannot see anything in the manual to show me how to create these missing f/stops.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

I've got the same flashmeter and found I can sync at 1/200 but the meter gives me 1/125 or 1/250. So I pulled off the back battery cover and changed the dip switch settings on #3 and #4 to the ON position (which is pushed up away from the battery). The #1 and #2 are in the OFF position (closest to the battery). There are markings but give me a yell if it it doesn't work for you. I turned the power off to the meter first, adjusted these two dip switches and BOOM, I have 1/3 steps now--100, 125, 160, 200, 250, etc.



G Holt

Thank you very much! I thought it was the switches, but I could never find the correct combination to give me the shutter settings. I really appreciate your help.

gholt:
I've got the same flashmeter and found I can sync at 1/200 but the meter gives me 1/125 or 1/250. So I pulled off the back battery cover and changed the dip switch settings on #3 and #4 to the ON position (which is pushed up away from the battery). The #1 and #2 are in the OFF position (closest to the battery). There are markings but give me a yell if it it doesn't work for you. I turned the power off to the meter first, adjusted these two dip switches and BOOM, I have 1/3 steps now--100, 125, 160, 200, 250, etc.

:)

G Holt

Sure go and make it easy and ruin the impending math lecture um...does this work on an old Minola V?

Haha... well dip switches are simple math, either 0 or 1 (off or on)

I'm guessing you were thinking of showing how to figure out the F-stop at 200 when the lightmeter jumps from 125 to 250....

Yup. Check out Mark's answer to Larry's quiz for a good start...maybe I'll put together a math article one of these months...oooh...was that a collective groan I just heard????