Another Canonet QL17 question...

[mr. mohaupt]

your battery is too high voltage -just set meter on 320 aa instead of 400- it shoud be ok... i use it that way when i use meter on canonet...

Ok this seems odd. I just checked my Luna Pro to my mkII and they jive, less than 1/3 of a stop difference. When I put my film speed on my QL17 to 320 I got results no where close to what they should be.... Under. When I put it on ISO 700 (2/3 above 400) They were almost right on (1/3 over which I will take).


Oddity?

~m

 

[zuikologist]

It might be worth trying a 1.4v battery.

I think the error response from the meter to a 1.55v battery is non-linear, so may give the results you are seeing. There is lots of information about this on the net.

 

[nzeeman]

Ok this seems odd. I just checked my Luna Pro to my mkII and they jive, less than 1/3 of a stop difference. When I put my film speed on my QL17 to 320 I got results no where close to what they should be.... Under. When I put it on ISO 700 (2/3 above 400) They were almost right on (1/3 over which I will take).


Oddity?

~m

well that is strange if you had underexposure with 400 setting.
for example if on 400 setting your camera shows 1/250 and f/2.8
then on 200 setting it should give more light so 1/125 f2.8
and on 800 it would be 1/500 f/2.8 which mean less light.
so basically putting asa higher lead to more underexposure...