Minolta Flash Meter IV Help

peterhammond53 · Jul 13, 2012

Hello I have jusr purchased a second hand Minolta Flashmeter IV and need some help.

Firstly if I set the meter up for Ambient and Fno measurements for single reading for say F5.6 when I take the actual reading I get the time value but also the Fno may change to say F5.69 which is nearly F8 I don't understand whats going on here any help would be appreciated.

Also when F5.6 is set in Fno ambient mode once a reading has been taken and say the fno chane to F5.69 how do I get it to read F5.6 again for a new reading I am very confused here. Is the meter faulty?

My left hand side settings settings are fno, fno, norm, and single

Right hand settings ambient,fno

Any help would be appreciated

Thank

tirediron · Jul 13, 2012

I'm not quite sure I'm following your question but this answers what I think you're asking. The Minolta Flash IV expresses and shutter-speed in "whole speeds" that is: 1/60, 1/125, 1/250, etc. If the ambient light measurement is doesn't match that exactly, it will change the aperture value to reflect that (eg: f5.69 vice f5.6).

What is going is that there's just a little more light than the meter considers optimum for the shutter-speed you have selected, so instead of showing f5.6, it reads f5.69 which is NOT very close to f8 at all. I don't think there's anything wrong with the meter at all. You can download a copy of the manual here.

peterhammond53 · Jul 13, 2012

Many thanks for the reply,

I was assuming the small 9 to the right hand side of the Fno (5.6) Display was indicating 9/10 of a stop more than F5.6 hence me thinking its nearly F8

I am obviously being thick here as I was expecting that anything over or under a full stop reading in fno mode would be shown against the Time display rather than the Fno display.