Struggling with camera light meter

[nixgeek]

Why are you using a light meter? Just bring a digital camera, get it right on the histogram, and use the same settings for your film camera? It's only cheating if you want to make things harder for yourself.

I should have said in the original post that I'm using the light meter in the dslr.

I just have a bar that looks like in the viewfinder....
<----|---->