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35mm camera guide

SarcasticDwarf

SarcasticDwarf

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I'm going to be taking some pictures tommorow with my 35mm camera that I have not used in about 4 years. Are there any online guides for what the settings are? All the searches I do return digital camera crap.
 
Originally posted by: WinstonSmith
What's the camera in question?
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Offhand I couldn't tell you. I will have to pick it up from storage in the morning. It's the classic Nikon camera that's about 20 years old. Pure manual. I just need to find out what all the settings do (there's the one for the film type and speed on the top plus the ones on the lense).
 
There is something called the Sunny 16 rule. Shooting in full sun you set the camera to f16 and the shutter speed to the reciprocal of the film speed.

Example: ASA 400 speed film

1/400 of a second. Now you don't have that, but you have 1/500 and that's close enough.

For open shade or light overcast, increase exposure by one stop.

For a cloudy day two stops.

BTW, you may know this, but I'll throw it in anyway. Opening the f-stop by one whole stop is the same as doubling the time the shutter is open.

So, f16 at 1/500 is the same as f11 at 1/1000. F8 at 1/250 is the same as f11 at 1/125.

Hope this answers your question
 
You just play with the dials, and start swinging it around while you twist the thing and press the doohickey. That's really all there is to it.

Oh yeah, remember to take the lens cap off.
 
Originally posted by: Wallydraigle
You just play with the dials, and start swinging it around while you twist the thing and press the doohickey. That's really all there is to it.

Oh yeah, remember to take the lens cap off.
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a 20 year old nikon? humm its prom a FA of some kind, they are great, one dial is film speed and the other is shutter speed, shutter speed one will look like this b,2,4,8,15,30,6,0125,...1000 those are the shutter speeds as in 1/2 second to 1/1000th of a second

the film speed one shoudl look like this 50,100,200,400,800,1600, IDK how high they go but that should do it. thats the ASA or ISO of the film you are useing

the apature is on the lens itself and you rotate it, remember BIGGER number = SMALLER apature, itll go like this, 1.4,2,2.8,4,5.6,8,11,16,22,32

as you look throuth the viewfinder you should see a needle on one side that moves between 2 bars, that is your light meter, im just guessing that a 20 year old cam still has the needle type light meter

when you point it at something you adjust the apature and shutter speed so that needle is in the middle, focus by turning the lens and press the button to take the pics, wind and repeat

thats based off how my 35 year old Nikkormat works, yours prob has more functions but that should help you
 
Hopefully the lesson won't be "don't leave battery in camera for extended storage" and that the battery hasn't corroded and ruined the camera.
 
Originally posted by: Yellow Dog
Hopefully the lesson won't be "don't leave battery in camera for extended storage" and that the battery hasn't corroded and ruined the camera.
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More likely I left it in there with the light meter on. I did that all the time.
 
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