Re: Why doesn't my lens work?

Butch Black said: Gregory L. Hansen wrote: I'm having trouble figuring out why my Kalimar 500mm f/8 reflex lens, manual, doesn't seem to work. Pictures I've taken with it seemed grayish, grainy, low contrast, under-exposed. snip I would do a couple tests. First, take a good look at

Re: Why doesn't my lens work?

Brendan said: The age old grey snow metering error, the camera tried to make the snow ( white ) 18 % grey. The low contrast tho is the lens, the kalimar 500mm F8 is the same as my vivitar 400mm, low not contrasty flat shots, Low contrast lens, huh? I think I'd just about reached that

Why doesn't my lens work?

I'm having trouble figuring out why my Kalimar 500mm f/8 reflex lens, manual, doesn't seem to work. Pictures I've taken with it seemed greyish, grainy, low contrast, under-wxposed. I took pictures of animals in snow and the prints came out kind of dark showing snow texture and animals too dark

Re: Why doesn't my lens work?

Gregory L. Hansen wrote: I'm having trouble figuring out why my Kalimar 500mm f/8 reflex lens, manual, doesn't seem to work. Pictures I've taken with it seemed greyish, grainy, low contrast, under-wxposed. I took pictures of animals in snow and the prints came out Using a TC with a Kalimar

Re: Why doesn't my lens work?

: Re: Why doesn't my lens work? My first question would be, what kind of pictures does it take when used without the TC? When shooting normally lit subjects, i.e. not as brightly lit as snow. As already stated shooting snow is tough anyway and the reflection can fool even the best meters

Re: Why doesn't my lens work?

Gregory L. Hansen wrote: I'm having trouble figuring out why my Kalimar 500mm f/8 reflex lens, manual, doesn't seem to work. Pictures I've taken with it seemed grayish, grainy, low contrast, under-exposed. snip I would do a couple tests. First, take a good look at the negatives. Are they