My New Baby

[ThePlague]

I came to New York (Albany, not the city) today, and a package was waiting for me. It was a camera my Uncle said I could have. At first I thought it wasn't going to be that great, but i've been using it all day, and pretty much went through one roll of film (22 out of 24 exposures). I had to buy the film, and the battery (fuck it was 17 bucks :| ), but it came with 6 lenses, the manual (I know right), external flash bulb (or whatever it's called), and a few other little things. It was actually pretty easy to pick up and use, and being able to adjust everything is really cool.

Anyway, pics:
http://johnflasser.scifi-frontier.com//storage/pictures/My%20New%20Baby/IMG_1894.JPG
http://johnflasser.scifi-frontier.com//storage/pictures/My%20New%20Baby/IMG_1896.JPG
http://johnflasser.scifi-frontier.com//storage/pictures/My%20New%20Baby/IMG_1898.JPG
http://johnflasser.scifi-frontier.com//storage/pictures/My%20New%20Baby/IMG_1900.JPG

Once this roll of film is done, i'll post how the pictures look.

I have a few questions though, what should I clean the lens etc. with? I have a cloth to clean glasses, and it seems to work fine, but i'm not sure if it's going to do harm to them or not.

Also, should I go to walmart to get the photos developed, or somewhere else? I've never done anything like this, because my other camera is digital.

This is one step closer to becoming a complete photography nut.

e: just wasted a day for nothing, none of the film was captured.

[InnerGoat]

Whoa grats~

Clean the lens with the cloth you use for the glasses it should be fine. Take the photos wherever you want I guess? All the stores here run them through a machine in 15 minutes anyways...

You reminded me that I need to finish the roll in the Contessa and get it developed :-3

[Timo]

The cloth should be fine as long as it's not anti-fog (will leave nice big smears across the lens). Good luck, and I hope you've got a bit of money lying around for film and development, that shit is expensive v_V

[ThePlague]

Yeah, I have some money for developing stuff. I have one last picture on my first roll, and I feel like doing light painting. What's a good shutter speed for that?

[Futzy]

However long it takes you to make what ever you want to do. You can set it for longer than what you need and cover the lens with a black cloth when you are done

[ThePlague]

e: guess what I found out, because i'm retarded; the film never moved through the camera, and I just wasted a roll of it by seeing if there were any negatives :\

[Cojafoji]

Mmmmm that is one hella nice camera plague. Can't wait to see some of the photos you start pumping out lol. Also, that sucks about the roll getting wasted. Only had it happen once, and it sucked.

[sleepy1212]

That looks a lot like my 1960's Mamiya. Takes great pictures. I liked it lot better before the school shut down our dark room :\

keep an eye on that little knob on the rewind. mine had a little screw in it and it fell off...

[ThePlague]

Alright.

How can I clean out the inside of it? because there's smudges and stuff. I tried just the lens cloth, but it just makes it worse.

[ThePlague]

I took some pics today, but they all came out like this:
-taken with 80-200 mm lens (the big one I has)
http://johnflasser.scifi-frontier.com//storage/pictures/wtf1.jpg
-taken with 50 mm lens, and a 49mm skylight front lens thing.
http://johnflasser.scifi-frontier.com//storage/pictures/wtf2.jpg

One was fine, but the others all came out like that. wtf? halp.

[sleepy1212]

did you stretch the film or something? I have never seen this but my first instinct is double exposure or bad film

[ThePlague]

I didn't, unless the people developing it did.

Could it be because I use 400 film, and was taking pictures at a shutter speed of 1000?

[InnerGoat]

The people developing it could have messed it up, or your camera is letting extra light in somewhere. I'd put another roll through it and take it somewhere else to be developed :-3

[ThePlague]

Mmk. I ddin't really trust walmart anyway...

I'll try CVS :)

[Cojafoji]

Yeah, they don't tell you this, but people at photo centers (walmart, cvs) actually fuck with the way your film is developed (a friend of mine worked in one). It also might have been the machine. Are the negatives messed up as well?

Edit: and no, taking a photo at ss1000, with iso400 wouldn't mess up the film.

[ThePlague]

Yeah, the negatives are fucked too.

[Reaper Man]

Looks like a light leak to me. Check the film door.