Ash
Selflessly Self-involved
Mine wants to buzz at everything from 1/50 to B. The shutter appears to work solidly however.
So it's a bad day for everyone.
People I know have done everything from walk into doors, to my tripping UP the stairs.
I load my film into the contax, make sure it's spooled correctly, wind up the slack so that I know the film is travelling correctly.
I arrive at my girlfriends having taken a whole 4 photo's on the way there, and here's where it all goes wrong. I shoot off a roll from various speeds, although my Leningrad tells me there is practically NO light - so the film needs to be pushed at least 3 stops. That's problem number...however many things gone wrong so far.
I run through the film, run out just as I think of a great few poses/expressions to get her to pull. So I rewind the film. Chugging along and I feel some tension "ah yea film's rewound *opens camera back* SH*T no it hasn't".
Almost the WHOLE film was wasted. Really not happy. fortunately 19 shots WERE saved, of which 2 or 3 look ok from the neg.
I'll have to shoot another roll tomorrow around West Swindon (oh joy).
So what I know so far, at 1/125 or 1/50 there appears to be no shutter capping. The lens LOOKS like it's in focus from the neg, but may be slightly out from one shot at closest focus. The camera does NOT have frame spacing issues at the end of the roll, and it's heavier than a Kiev. And also the parallax is an obvious setback.
So far a positive experience when I ignore how I had to push to get a result, and that I lost nearly 2/3 of my film!
So it's a bad day for everyone.
People I know have done everything from walk into doors, to my tripping UP the stairs.
I load my film into the contax, make sure it's spooled correctly, wind up the slack so that I know the film is travelling correctly.
I arrive at my girlfriends having taken a whole 4 photo's on the way there, and here's where it all goes wrong. I shoot off a roll from various speeds, although my Leningrad tells me there is practically NO light - so the film needs to be pushed at least 3 stops. That's problem number...however many things gone wrong so far.
I run through the film, run out just as I think of a great few poses/expressions to get her to pull. So I rewind the film. Chugging along and I feel some tension "ah yea film's rewound *opens camera back* SH*T no it hasn't".
Almost the WHOLE film was wasted. Really not happy. fortunately 19 shots WERE saved, of which 2 or 3 look ok from the neg.
I'll have to shoot another roll tomorrow around West Swindon (oh joy).
So what I know so far, at 1/125 or 1/50 there appears to be no shutter capping. The lens LOOKS like it's in focus from the neg, but may be slightly out from one shot at closest focus. The camera does NOT have frame spacing issues at the end of the roll, and it's heavier than a Kiev. And also the parallax is an obvious setback.
So far a positive experience when I ignore how I had to push to get a result, and that I lost nearly 2/3 of my film!
