dang, my GSN post vanished!!!

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I asked a Q in that (vanished) thread: do u find the max speed of 1/500 limiting in broad daylight, esp if u are using ASA 200 film?

i find my pics overexposed and i can't seem to figure out what to do with it?

3 of the members replied (thanks to u) and they suggested that the meter might be broken, which makes sense.

any other thoughts??

Dan.
 
Hi Dan.

RFF attempted an upgrade to the software, which didn't go to smoothly I guess. It looks like the forum was restored to a prior point in time before the update. Sorry for loosing your thread, I am sure we lost a number of posts which were made in the time the forum has been up over the past day or so.
 
DanP said:
I asked a Q in that (vanished) thread: do u find the max speed of 1/500 limiting in broad daylight, esp if u are using ASA 200 film?

i find my pics overexposed and i can't seem to figure out what to do with it?

3 of the members replied (thanks to u) and they suggested that the meter might be broken, which makes sense.

any other thoughts??

Dan.
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Hi Dan,

1/500 was common in a time when fast film was several stops below what it is today... I'm used to my Nikon's 1/4000 and 1/8000, and I use my Bessas' 1/2000 constantly.

If you're under the sun with ISO 200 film, a normal aperture for 1/500 is near f/8... Even ND8 (0.9) filters are not enough for real fast lenses wide open...

1/500 is a huge limit for isolating subjects on direct sun, but a high quality 6-stop ND64 (1.8) filter can solve it, and more common ISO 400 film can be used with it too... But when used with color film, some of those filters can affect color temperature...

Cheers,

Juan
 
Maybe there is dirt covering the diffuser in front of the sensor. When you adjust the aperture on the camera, a light diffuser in front of the sensor lets more or less light contact the meter through a series of larger to smaller holes. The small holes are quite small, and even a few specks of dust can obscure them and give you a bad reading. Dust on the sensor itself can also cause overexposure problems.
 
Juan Valdenebro said:
Hi Dan,

1/500 was common in a time when fast film was several stops below what it is today... I'm used to my Nikon's 1/4000 and 1/8000, and I use my Bessas' 1/2000 constantly.

If you're under the sun with ISO 200 film, a normal aperture for 1/500 is near f/8... Even ND8 (0.9) filters are not enough for real fast lenses wide open...

1/500 is a huge limit for isolating subjects on direct sun, but a high quality 6-stop ND64 (1.8) filter can solve it, and more common ISO 400 film can be used with it too... But when used with color film, some of those filters can affect color temperature...

Cheers,

Juan
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that's what i m thinking, to invest in some ND filters.
 
rover said:
Hi Dan.

RFF attempted an upgrade to the software, which didn't go to smoothly I guess. It looks like the forum was restored to a prior point in time before the update. Sorry for loosing your thread, I am sure we lost a number of posts which were made in the time the forum has been up over the past day or so.
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its all cool, i read in some of the other forums that threads made during the upgrade were lost. i humorously posted this thread again as i wanted some more info for my problem. thanks for dropping a line and taking notice.
 
Frontman said:
Maybe there is dirt covering the diffuser in front of the sensor. When you adjust the aperture on the camera, a light diffuser in front of the sensor lets more or less light contact the meter through a series of larger to smaller holes. The small holes are quite small, and even a few specks of dust can obscure them and give you a bad reading. Dust on the sensor itself can also cause overexposure problems.
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possible, but i guess i cannot clean it unless i open the top assembly, right?
 
to all folks who tried to help:

i developed my second roll from my GSN today and to my pleasant surprise, it came out perfect as far as exposure was concerned. there was some flare (understandably) when shots were directed at the sun. i have the say this tho, indoor portraits with the lens wide open are extremely gorgeous-the lens is great with and i am a little disappointed because prints from my m43 are not this good.

i now have another problem. honestly, before i bought the camera, i did not realize it is going to be that big and heavy. so after focusing when i press the shutter release, the camera usually shakes as it is not steady because of the weight and also because of the way i have to hold the focusing ring. is there a way to change the rotation of the 2 black "humps" on the focusing ring?

thanks,
dan.
 
DanP said:
i now have another problem. honestly, before i bought the camera, i did not realize it is going to be that big and heavy. so after focusing when i press the shutter release, the camera usually shakes as it is not steady because of the weight and also because of the way i have to hold the focusing ring. is there a way to change the rotation of the 2 black "humps" on the focusing ring?
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Great you let to sort out exposure issue itself :)

It's not size nor weight of camera which bothers you....because it has AE, release button travels bown doing some additional work under hood to ensure AE function. This is evil.

Basically you have two options - get a soft release to screw into release button. Strange, but it helps.

Second, most natural option is to get Yashica Lynx 5000 which is fully manual camera (well, it has meter, but not tied to release mechanism). This is kind of camera having buttersmooth and short release travel, just what you want from camera.

Strange, but small bodied Electros have much better release button - this is third option if you want specifically AE. Large G/GS/GSN (and thus also black versions) are inferior to them in this aspect.
 
btgc said:
Great you let to sort out exposure issue itself :)

It's not size nor weight of camera which bothers you....because it has AE, release button travels bown doing some additional work under hood to ensure AE function. This is evil.

Basically you have two options - get a soft release to screw into release button. Strange, but it helps.

Second, most natural option is to get Yashica Lynx 5000 which is fully manual camera (well, it has meter, but not tied to release mechanism). This is kind of camera having buttersmooth and short release travel, just what you want from camera.

Strange, but small bodied Electros have much better release button - this is third option if you want specifically AE. Large G/GS/GSN (and thus also black versions) are inferior to them in this aspect.
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thanks for your help, you made it easy to understand. i really don't want to get a new camera at this point as i am really liking the prints from this GSN, i guess i will look into the soft release. any source/link?
 
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