My sympathies on this. Sometimes the digi-camera is a great guide but often it's misleading. For one thing, my Nikon D90 has an overbright display. So when I use it I tend to get an underexposed film image. Reducing the LCD screen brightness helps. The other difficulty is that I'll view the LCD in a sunny environment or a dim studio and get different impressions of how bright the image is. After several disappointments I've arrived at a recipe of giving my film 1/2 to 2/3 stop more light than my D90 indicates I should need. Usually this works. Mainly, I trust the digital camera to help me get studio lights correct, and then bracket for safety. Outdoors I just trust my spotmeter and leave the digi-crap at home. Remember using Polaroid film? It was a hassle, but totally reliable.
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