Andy's Handy Mini

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Aperture

Shutter speed
Exposure Calculator
cut out
How to make it
ISO

Recommended tools: a sharp craft knife

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and a metal ruler.
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Fireworks
Streetlights

Bright streetlights
Floodlit buildings

night interior
Average home

interior
Bright night

Stage shows
Indoor sports

Bright day interior

Floodlit stadium

Spot-lit subjects
Neon lights

sunset
Immediately after

Sunsets
Open shade
First cut out the windows and score
the folds - it's easier to do this before
you've cut the parts out from the
page. The back of your knife blade is
handy for scoring the folds.

score here
Cut out the two parts of the exposure
Bright day interior
Bright cloudy day

Immediately after
Bright sunny day

Heavily overcast

Spot-lit subjects

Floodlit stadium
(hard shadows)

Hazy sunshine
(soft shadows)

calculator. Glue the tab then fold and

(no shadows)
sand or snow
Bright sun on

Open shade

Neon lights

assemble the main part. When the

Sunsets

sunset
day

glue is dry, fold the sliding scale and

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slip it inside the main part. Make sure
ISO

to get the sliding scale the right way

score here
Shutter speed

round as the two sides are different.

Aperture

cut out
The sliding scale on this page has its
2000 1000 500 250 125 60 30 15 8 aperture scale graduated in 1/3 f-
stops. If you prefer half f-stop
glue here
graduations, use the alternative scale
on the next page.

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How to use it
4.5

3.5
6.3

1.8

22 16 11 8 5.6 4 2.8 2 1.4

Establish the brightness (EV) of your
800 1600 3200 400 200 100 subject, using either your hand-held
light meter or the descriptions on the
320

160
125

calculator. (Note that the descriptions

score here

are only a guideline - if you're working

from them you may wish to bracket
night side
your exposures.)
Slide the sliding scale so that the ISO
value of your film lines up with the
appropriate EV value. Then you can
read off aperture/shutter speed
day side combinations from the lower pair of
scales.

This version of the calculator is

64

125
160

320

25 50 100 200 400 800 1600 reversible. Use the side with EVs 8-16
for bright conditions, and the 3-11
1.4 2 2.8 4 5.6 8 11 16 22
side for dim light.
1.8

6.3
3.5

4.5

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This is the optional aperture scale graduated
2.4 1.7
in half f-stops. If you prefer 1/3 f-stop
22 16 11 8 5.6 4 2.8 2 1.4 graduations, you don't need this page.
800 1600 3200 400 200 100

320

160
125

score here
night side

day side
64

125
160

320

25 50 100 200 400 800 1600

1.4 2 2.8 4 5.6 8 11 16 22

1.7 2.4