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My brother just gave me one for crimbo

my first folder :D

grabbed a manual off internet but whats the score with film speeds am confuddled :S
 
david1701 said:
grabbed a manual off internet but whats the score with film speeds am confuddled :S
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What is it you're unsure about? I'm not familiar with the camera, but I'd imagine all you'll have are aperture/shutter speed settings. You'll need a hand-held exposure meter or the meter on your existing camera.
 
There is no metering on a Coronet Rapide, so as already mentioned you'll need to meter by hand or guesstimate.
The iso is whatever speed of film you load the camera with, ilford delta 100 is iso 100 film, any exposure calculations are done with an iso of 100, once you start shooting at 100 you need to shoot the whole film the same.

you can shoot 100 film at 400 if you want, but you must process the film at 400, this is called pushing.

I recommend the KISS method of shooting film with cameras of unknown accuracy though...:)
 
I meant how to tell the camera it has iso 100 film in

it has no controls but a fixed f11 app and a fixed 1/100 shutter so I went for iso 100 film to give it cloudy f11 (I think thats right)

loading advancing was my other issue but its sorted now I have realised film has numbers all the way along not just in the hole on a 6x6 back
 
With no meter in the camera there is no need to tell it what film speed you are using... you just set the shutter speed and aperture and press fire. Or in this case, make sure you are not filming a bright scene or if you are, take account of that in the developing stage.

Arthur
 
david1701 said:
I meant how to tell the camera it has iso 100 film in

it has no controls but a fixed f11 app and a fixed 1/100 shutter so I went for iso 100 film to give it cloudy f11 (I think thats right)
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Ah, I see what you mean. Well assuming the camera has no built-in meter, then there isn't any need to tell the camera what film you're using. If you had a hand-held meter, you would set this to 100 ISO/ASA and take the reading. You'd then set the camera accordingly.

However, if you're camera has one fixed speed and one aperture, then you are quite limited in your shooting situations. With 100 ISO, then normally it's around 1/125 sec @ f/16 on a sunny day and f/11 for hazy sunshine. If you loaded the camera with 400 ISO, you would be restricted to shooting on cloudy days. In saying that, you do have a reasonably good exposure latitude with negative film, so you would get away with it if you overexposed by a couple of stops or so.
 
and its 6x9 so only 8 shots I intend to shoot in hazy sunshine next few days so loaded 100, will just load what I wanna shoot when I wanna use it, tis a funky thing :D
 
Cool attitude, should get some nice morning/evening wide shots with that size frame.

Arthur
 
david1701 said:
and its 6x9 so only 8 shots I intend to shoot in hazy sunshine next few days so loaded 100, will just load what I wanna shoot when I wanna use it, tis a funky thing :D
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Bearing in mind that at this time of year, the sun isn't as bright as it is in the middle of summer, so you could use your film on a clear sunny day and will get satisfactory results.
 
Carl V said:
Bearing in mind that at this time of year, the sun isn't as bright as it is in the middle of summer, so you could use your film on a clear sunny day and will get satisfactory results.
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I have a sneaky suspicion I'll be using it in whatever the weather is tomorrow and the day after, as we're going up to london :D
 
Proper attitude! Get out there and harden some halide!
 
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