Perhaps a silly question but...

I've recently bought an old mamiya C220 medium format camera but I don't have a light meter or any experience using one. What I do have in the way of film is a Nilon F65. Now my question is this...Could I use the F65 as a kind of meter for taking evening/night shots? At least until I'm used to using the Mamiya? I have them both loaded with fuji velvia 50 so if I use the F65's meter reading for my Mamiya exposure, then perhaps bracket around it, will it get me close to a good exposure?

Basically, will the F65's meter suggestions transpose to the Mamiya? I'm not sure if there's any difference between ISO 50 135 and 120 film.

Any advice greatly appreciated

Yes, your hunch is right on the money. Nilons have very good meters. Exposure is constant across formats, excepting shutter quirks by individual lenses, etc.

JBrunner said:

Yes, your hunch is right on the money. Nilons have very good meters. Exposure is constant across formats, excepting shutter quirks by individual lenses, etc.

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That's great, thanks for confirming this guys. Off our tonight if the weather holds so I'll hopefully shoot a test roll and see how it comes out.

Cheers!
Ian