Greetings from a new reader and first-time poster,
I am a ~2 month novice in the world of 35mm film, and I am having basic difficulty in making it 'work'. If this is not the correct area to post, I apologise. I tried to find some answers through this site's Search function but I did not use it effectively. This was largely because I would really appreciate some guidance in the right direction to find out what exactly I am doing incorrectly in the first place.
Here are four images from a roll of film I had developed today. I have shot two previous test rolls in the past few weeks, just daytime photographing trees or general open outside spaces which were hard to get wrong. But it is these four images (the 'best' of the whole roll, all similar in condition) where I am coming unstuck.
HMA27 - Imgur
- Canon AE-1P
- Canon FD 50mm lens
- AgfaPhoto 200 Vista Plus
I can tell you that for the whole roll of film I set the camera's ISO to 200 (what I assume was the correct thing to do), I set the shutter speed to value 125 (I read this number had to be at least the reciprocal of the 50mm lens?), and rotated the lens aperture ring before taking each picture to the value as close as indicated by the tiny number that appears in the viewfinder when the shutter button is half-pressed. When looking through the viewfinder it mostly said 1, so the lowest I could rotate it was 1.8, etc.
I think I have two main issues, but again I am still very much the novice so any input will be greatly appreciated. (1)There are the very obvious and unsightly lines running lengthwise across each photograph, and (2) there is the very bad quality of the photographs themselves.
(1) The lines across each photograph, are they because I took such bad photographs? Has the developer (Boots, if you live in the UK) had to do something very drastic in his process to enable me to see anything? Or is the developer terrible at his job and making his own developing mistakes over my photographs?
(2) Is it right to say, these photographs are "underexposed" or "overexposed"? Again, I am hoping someone with knowledge can properly diagnose what I'm doing! If I've been setting the ISO and the aperture as they ought to be set, is my shutter speed my weak link?
That is my train of thought, but if it's wrong it's wrong. But if anyone has any thoughts on any of the above and can give input to steer me in the right direction,
I will be very thankful.
HMA27
I am a ~2 month novice in the world of 35mm film, and I am having basic difficulty in making it 'work'. If this is not the correct area to post, I apologise. I tried to find some answers through this site's Search function but I did not use it effectively. This was largely because I would really appreciate some guidance in the right direction to find out what exactly I am doing incorrectly in the first place.
Here are four images from a roll of film I had developed today. I have shot two previous test rolls in the past few weeks, just daytime photographing trees or general open outside spaces which were hard to get wrong. But it is these four images (the 'best' of the whole roll, all similar in condition) where I am coming unstuck.
HMA27 - Imgur
- Canon AE-1P
- Canon FD 50mm lens
- AgfaPhoto 200 Vista Plus
I can tell you that for the whole roll of film I set the camera's ISO to 200 (what I assume was the correct thing to do), I set the shutter speed to value 125 (I read this number had to be at least the reciprocal of the 50mm lens?), and rotated the lens aperture ring before taking each picture to the value as close as indicated by the tiny number that appears in the viewfinder when the shutter button is half-pressed. When looking through the viewfinder it mostly said 1, so the lowest I could rotate it was 1.8, etc.
I think I have two main issues, but again I am still very much the novice so any input will be greatly appreciated. (1)There are the very obvious and unsightly lines running lengthwise across each photograph, and (2) there is the very bad quality of the photographs themselves.
(1) The lines across each photograph, are they because I took such bad photographs? Has the developer (Boots, if you live in the UK) had to do something very drastic in his process to enable me to see anything? Or is the developer terrible at his job and making his own developing mistakes over my photographs?
(2) Is it right to say, these photographs are "underexposed" or "overexposed"? Again, I am hoping someone with knowledge can properly diagnose what I'm doing! If I've been setting the ISO and the aperture as they ought to be set, is my shutter speed my weak link?
That is my train of thought, but if it's wrong it's wrong. But if anyone has any thoughts on any of the above and can give input to steer me in the right direction,
I will be very thankful.
HMA27