Help! Beginner and lens keeps falling off

Crumbs what slow film @ ASA (ISO) 10, 32, 64 there was during that period (the slowest I recall was Kodachrome 25) Is there film of any type still made with that low an ASA ???
 
What a brilliant thread guys, its good to see such helpful replies, especially to a new member (y)
 
Cobra said:
What a brilliant thread guys, its good to see such helpful replies, especially to a new member (y)
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The thread might get even better help in the film section.
 
Box Brownie said:
Crumbs what slow film @ ASA (ISO) 10, 32, 64 there was during that period (the slowest I recall was Kodachrome 25) Is there film of any type still made with that low an ASA ???
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The slowness of the films the camera's designed to take could be a slight problem BUT it's easy to overcome with neutral density filters (ND). Once it's known what speed the thing's set at, just use the NDs to "adjust" the apparent sensitivity.
 
Cobra said:
What a brilliant thread guys, its good to see such helpful replies, especially to a new member (y)
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It's edge of the seat stuff and I know nothing about the camera :D I'm just hoping the OP can get some good use out of the camera :D Hope you get it sorted Samantha.
 
Nod said:
The slowness of the films the camera's designed to take could be a slight problem BUT it's easy to overcome with neutral density filters (ND). Once it's known what speed the thing's set at, just use the NDs to "adjust" the apparent sensitivity.
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I may have mis read some of the above, but if its a fixed 1/40 shutter speed, and automatic metering, won't an ND filter just make the cameras meter compensate for the darker image by still overexposing the film?. E.g. If you have a 3 stop ND, it will just expose 3 stops wider on aperture? The only time an ND will work is if you are already at max aperture however that's going to be some real guess work.
 
woof woof said:
It's edge of the seat stuff and I know nothing about the camera :D I'm just hoping the OP can get some good use out of the camera :D Hope you get it sorted Samantha.
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I don’t but I should as I swapped my then Diax for a Paxette with a telephoto lens in 1957 so right vintage. All the films were badly scratched, might have been sand (Aden) or the local processing but I got rid of it p/x for an Exa 1 :(.
 
On the ISO/ASA front, it's OK to pull films as well as push so a ISO 100 could be shot at 64 and the lab notified to process accordingly.

I'd be more concerned that a light meter of that age is unlikely to be accurate and if the camera is fully auto then it is going to be hard to get any decent shots.
 
sirch said:
On the ISO/ASA front, it's OK to pull films as well as push so a ISO 100 could be shot at 64 and the lab notified to process accordingly.

I'd be more concerned that a light meter of that age is unlikely to be accurate and if the camera is fully auto then it is going to be hard to get any decent shots.
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Agree, and really the OP would be better off with an entirely manual camera of the same vintage I think.

Don't selenium cells die or become inactive if deprived of light for a long time?
 
droj said:
Ha - if you had any. And some sellotape to attach them with?


Hey! We're hardly in the realm of through-the-lens metering here. Slow down a bit.
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You could put the ND filter over the meter ;).
 
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