Another stupid, stupid, stupid

[Sparrow]

Anybody know what would happen if some fool puts Fuji superia 1600 in a Oly mju/stylus epic? the f2.8 one with the spot meter.

I suspect I’ve done something silly involving the DX coding’s default, rather than the camera being faulty

 

[Ghiom]

If your film had no DX coding The Mju will expose it at 100 ISO...

If it had, I guess there should be no problem.

 

[jonmanjiro]

I know nothing about these cameras, but came up with this after a quick google search. Any help?

http://www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_section/cpg_pressDetails.asp?pressNo=11

Film Speed Range:

Automatic setting with DX-coded film with ISO 50,100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200. For non DX-coded film and film with less than ISO 50, film speed is automatically set to ISO 100.

 

[btgc]

Only issue you could have met is your film is exposed at box speed. If I'm going to use 1600/Mju2.8 combo anywhere except bright sunlight (which I don't) I rate it at 800 (some scratching and taping involved).

 

[Sparrow]

I know nothing about these cameras, but came up with this after a quick google search. Any help?

http://www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_section/cpg_pressDetails.asp?pressNo=11

Film Speed Range:

Automatic setting with DX-coded film with ISO 50,100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200. For non DX-coded film and film with less than ISO 50, film speed is automatically set to ISO 100.

Yep, thanks ... I couldn't find that

So it should have been OK, I have 3 rolls of 1600 that have lots of camera shake and are over exposed and 1 400 that looks normal (for me) all shot at night with the flash off, I thought it may have miss-read the code, but it would seem not

 

[rxmd]

Fuji 1600 has an effective speed of about 1000. 3 1/2 stop overexposure is a lot, but it's a negative film, you might actually still get some usable pictures out of it. Grainy maybe. You can have it pulled a stop or two.

I just got back some Kodak 100 slide film that I exposed at 800 because of user stupidity. I had it pushed three stops and actually got some usable pictures out of it.

 

[Sparrow]

I usually give all dye films an extra stop or so but never bothered with this beeing a DX

I use the camera at night without the flash a lot, with 400 but I do get a bit of shake if I don’t brace it against something, I got the 1600 hoping for a faster shutter-speed to improve the shake but it looks to have gone the other way

I’m a bit of a exposure-slut so I’m not to half a stop, but these are way over 2 or 3 stops.

I probably dropped it once too often

 

[Roger Hicks]

I usually give all dye films an extra stop or so but never bothered with this beeing a DX

I use the camera at night without the flash a lot, with 400 but I do get a bit of shake if I don’t brace it against something, I got the 1600 hoping for a faster shutter-speed to improve the shake but it looks to have gone the other way

I’m a bit of a exposure-slut so I’m not to half a stop, but these are way over 2 or 3 stops.

I probably dropped it once too often

Dear Stewart,

No doubt you know this but I post it for the benefit of others who may not and who are reading this thread:

DO NOT overexpose Ektar 100 by the usual 50-100% (for finer grain and minimally reduced sharpness, but a bigger buffer against underexposure) or the colours go very funny and nasty.

Commiserations on the misbehaving camera.

Cheers,

R.

 

[Sparrow]

It isn’t the camera, it’s the photos that are now thousands of miles away that concern me, I only needed two decent shots!

P.S. Never used Ektar … Yorkshireman