Light meters calibrate to middle grey (18%).
Digital cameras calibrate to prevention of highlight clipping, a moving target at times.
So, it might match or it might not depending on the conditions.
Scene selection also dramatically impacts a digital camera and therefore the correct settings.
If your camera offers "raw" that is the lowest contrast and a reasonable match to the DR of a negative given the limitations mentioned above.
I have a manually exposure capable P&S that gets me in the ballpark for really low light (Canon G12) but in daylight it can be fooled easily and my spot meter is much more accurate as to what shows up on film.
I found my film Nikons (F5) more accurate than my digital Nikons (D2x) for use as a meter, especially with transparency film.
bob
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