:cry: i am getting grainy pix with my sears 80-200 lens and ae-1 canon. i do not know much about taking pix. i have tried 400 and 800 speed film. i mostly take action shots of my kids playing sports. please help!
You'll get better and more detailed answers from others here, but my first thought would be, reduce that film speed. What kind of film are you using? If you don't like grain, always try to go for the lowest film speed you can get away with, even if you have to push it. I appreciate you're taking action shots, but that doesn't always mean you have to go for real high-speed film - especially if they're playing outdoors.
I can't speak for the lens quality, but I'm betting it has more to do with film type and speed, for starters.
yeah.. that´s too much... the less sensible a film is the less grain you´ll get. Another thing which may make grain to appear is a non correct exposition