Bob Peters 61
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- May 27, 2017
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- Nashville, TN
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I just got an old Chinon SLR (yes, that's the brand and model names printed on the camera body.) that looks like it came from the 1970s. Just the type of camera I want to get serious about film with rather than automatic stuff. Hoping it'll force me to develop a "seat of the pants feel for" exposure settings and have my camera ready to go in the lighting I'm using.
When I got it, there was a bad mess of dust the consistency of cardboard accumulated below the body inside the lens, in front of the mirror. Knocking that down, and cleaning it off, I got some on the mirror and made the mistake of cleaning off the mirror and focus glass with a an old t-shirt dampened with window cleaner. I think I took some of the silver off because the viewfinder which was slightly dim in a nice way is now slightly dimmer than it was. I can deal with this but I wonder one thing:
The only place I can figure out for the light meter sensors to be would be using that mirror, so will this dimness affect the over-under metering of the camera? Seems to me like it might start calling for over-exposure.
When I got it, there was a bad mess of dust the consistency of cardboard accumulated below the body inside the lens, in front of the mirror. Knocking that down, and cleaning it off, I got some on the mirror and made the mistake of cleaning off the mirror and focus glass with a an old t-shirt dampened with window cleaner. I think I took some of the silver off because the viewfinder which was slightly dim in a nice way is now slightly dimmer than it was. I can deal with this but I wonder one thing:
The only place I can figure out for the light meter sensors to be would be using that mirror, so will this dimness affect the over-under metering of the camera? Seems to me like it might start calling for over-exposure.