using light meter but still coming out bright

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Hi i hope someone can help.

I use a light meter and set the camera but the images come out alot brighter blow in places.

I do a couple of readings just to make sure. Jpegs looks alright maybe alittle dark but raw are well off (very Bright).

What could cause this??

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There should be no difference between RAW and JPEG.

It's a box with a hole in it and you are just opening the hole to the right size for the right amount of time.

Are you shooting manual and controlling the ISO manually too?
What settings are you using?
 
Do you mean using an external meter, or built in?

Are you measuring ambient, or flash?
 
Check the ISO setting on your camera and light meter match

If they are not identical then the results will be very different than expected
This is one of the most common causes or under or over exposure when using a light meter
 
Thanks for the replies. I measured the flash with an external meter.

The settings were 125, f9 iso 100 like the meter said and this was what was in the camera.

The camera processes the jpeg and i suppose it edits it. The jpeg is defo better then the raw in colour (not blow)
 
This is just a guessing game, but did you accidentally take a reflective light reading instead of the incident light reading that you should have taken?
 
Snapsnap - JPEG will generally look better straight-from-camera because it has settings (saturation etc) applied to it in-camera. The raw file will need adjusting to suit.... however, can't figure out why exposure would be dramatically different between the two?....
 
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Have you set exposure compensation and forgot to change it? worth a look
 
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