Are rangefinders suitable for beginners?

[gb hill]

I'm still in the first roll, wasted about half of it trying to figure out the metering system (thank god it was given to me by my sister because they don't shoot film anymore, and it's expired years ago anyway), and now think I'm ready to seriously experiment with it.

The meter, however, shows that it's underexposed most of the time, don't know if my shooting indoors has something to do with it, I'll try it in the open air to see how that goes. Anyway, thanks for the input guys, it's been of great help, I really appreciate that.

If the film your sister gave you was 100 or 200 asa film speed then it will be underexposed indoors unless you have good light coming in from windows. Go to your local library & check out a book on basic photography. If your libraries are like ours here in the states there will be basic photography books from back in the 70's. If they have the Time Life series of books read them. Stay off the internet, too many opinions that will confuse you. Don't waste money on a photography class that will be too focused on digital. Get the books, I guarantee within a week of reading a basic book on photography you'll find it's not as hard as you thought & you will be way far ahead of your friends who seem to not care to study to get ahead.