Film Photography Canon EA-1 Program

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Anyone that started out with shooting film knows that it can get rather expensive. Not to mention all the anticipation to get your pictures back. What if they are blurry? What if they have bad exposure? It hasn't been easy I'll tell you that much. However I felt that starting with film will help to better educate myself with camera settings. Much of the information I know now comes mostly from various articles and manuals I have read. I just would really like to look at something and be able to manually pick the right exposure. Does anyone have any useful tips concerning settings that go well together? Or just different techniques to try out? Using a Canon AE-1 Program
 
I've moved this to the film and conventional section... you're more likely to get answers in here - I doubt that many beginners these days start out shooting film :)
 
Hi Ernesto.....it's difficult to make a cockup using film as it has a great tolerance to errors, you can go about 5 stops over exposure and about 4 under and still get an image...of course best results are near correct exposure (the same as digital). Best to get out and start shooting and after a few rolls you will get to know the camera and the only problems with exposure or the same with any camera e.g. black cat against a white background and snow scenes etc etc
 
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I think you need quite a bit of experience to be able to pick the correct exposure off the cuff, and be right more times than wrong.

However, you can follow a few rules like sunny 16, or study the exposure calculator, or just shoot at night when you can virtually eliminate over exposure or at least a good bit of it...lol.

If you were to carry a lightmeter, maybe you could familiarize yourself with exposure settings for different lighting conditions, but you could do that with a metered camera if you took notice of the settings it used when shooting.

B/W film is the most forgiving when it comes to exposure....not slide, nope don't guess slide :)
 
In for info as i've just got myself a Canon EF-M..

I did have a Zenit 11, but it's chewed up both rolls of film i've shot through, so it might go in the bin..
 
Have you viewed all the YouTube videos online ?

Lots to learn on line
 
BennyBoo said:
In for info as i've just got myself a Canon EF-M..

I did have a Zenit 11, but it's chewed up both rolls of film i've shot through, so it might go in the bin..
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They've good at that, you might be able to get an adapter for the lens so hang on to that if you do chuck the body.
 
steveo_mcg said:
They've good at that, you might be able to get an adapter for the lens so hang on to that if you do chuck the body.
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yeah, they Definitely do that. Don't chuck the body, get it weighed in - have you seen the price of scrap iron these days...
 
steveo_mcg said:
They've good at that, you might be able to get an adapter for the lens so hang on to that if you do chuck the body.
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Yee I've got 2 Helios' that I use on my 5Dii..

TheBigYin said:
yeah, they Definitely do that. Don't chuck the body, get it weighed in - have you seen the price of scrap iron these days...
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Well, I hear the QE2 needs a new anchor, so i'll get in touch with them if I decide to throw it..
 
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