Hi folks,
Got back yesterday from a ten day trip, mainly to Wyoming (Yellowstone
Park) but with some time also spent in Utah, Idaho, and Montana. My
walking around camera was an OM-2n loaded with Fuji Superia 200 and I also
traveled with an OM-4 loaded with Fuji Velvia (50 ASA) for landscape shots
using a tripod.
I wanted to only risk the film being zapped once as carry-on luggage on the
airplane so I planned to mail the exposed rolls back two at the time to a
local processor. Well, when I started to load the third roll of film into
the OM-4 I noticed that it was set for ASA 80, not 50. I thought about
this for a few minutes and finally decided that, in a careless moment, I
had set the speed incorrectly when I loaded the first roll of film on the
trip. So, I added a note with the first two rolls asking the processor to
push it 2/3s stop and dropped it in the mail hoping that I had guessed
right about the source of the problem.
Only four or five shots into the third roll I glanced at the ASA dial and
it was off the 50 setting again! This time I remembered that I had just
added one stop of compensation when taking a picture of a waterfall so I
tried rotating the dial again and, sure enough, the film speed changed. I
fiddled with the dial a little more and found that, most of the time, I
could set the exposure compensation normally but occasionally doing so
would change the film speed.
So, has anyone else experienced a problem similar to this and developed an
easy cure? OK, I know I can discipline myself and check the film speed
anytime I make exposure compensation adjustments but I'd rather concentrate
on other things. I'm hoping that someone has found that something like the
judicious application of a drop of oil will fix it.
BTW, I'll be scanning the photos from the trip over the next several
days. It doesn't appear that I got any real "wall hangers" but I'll post a
few of the more interesting ones to a web site anyway. Some of the List
members from overseas might find the Yellowstone area interesting.
Later,
Johnny
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Johnny Johnson
Lilburn, GA
mailto:jjohnso4@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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