William Kane wrote:
> You're my new best friend!! Wahoooooo! That did the trick.
> I couldn't figure out how to advance the frames, and had some
> idea that that might be why it wasn't working properly.
Cool - sounds like it may be a good, albeit beat-up, one :^)
> Shutter speeds SOUND as if they are working correctly, so my
> next step is obtaining a lens and some film.
The shutter is electronicly controlled, so it may be fine.
The non-metering prism is fine - see below for incident metering.
That said, I as often as not remove the prism and use the full
screen below it - especially when I have the body stabilized.
> If I like this, I'll probably opt for a prisim and maybe a handheld
> meter. (Guess I'll need to actually read a book on metering too!)
I picked up (at a rediculous bargain!) a Minolta AutoMeter III,
my first incident meter. Using it makes things so simple! Just
hold it up into the light and transfer the settings to the 6x7.
I wnet for a short jaunt down the Coast to Florence on Sunday
and finished off my last roll of Lumiere down thru the Cape
Perpetua area. Used the tripod on some, but most were either
handheld (f8ish @ 1/250th) or w/ the 6x7 nestled into the
"rice-bag" from some solid support surface like the stone walls
supposed to keep errant autos from plunging over the edge to th
sea far below - anti-pollution controls, I suppose.
It is uncanny how the mass of the 6x7 makes for easy handheld
shooting - 1/125th thru 1/1000th. It will certainly be w/ me
next weekend (11/12 May) at the 3rd Glastonbury Faire here,
Probably E-100vs and the Fuji 400F slide films, though (to add
to another thread) I'll have a few Portra 400NC's as well. But,
the inability to get decent color prints here and the time-lag
for my outlab have me using E-6 in the 6x7 for the vast majority
of what I shoot w/ it - Nine transparancies fit nicely into some
"baseball card" pages available in the department stores.
Bill
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Bill D. Casselberry ; Photography on the Oregon Coast
http://www.orednet.org/~bcasselb
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