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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
03-04-2018, 07:05 AM
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Hello all. I need some help, I've read myself stupid on the internets (including scouring this forum).
Been rocking my mom's K1000 since my sophomore year of college in the late 90s, but after school I got a job and shooting slowly fell by the wayside. I made decent photographs here and there in my teens/early 20s, but now I want to actually be technically competent versus hoping for one printable negative per roll. I wasn't awful or anything; I shot slide film all over Mexico and years of Tmax 3200, lots of which is displayed in my house. Not that I was particularly good either...enough room for improvement that I recently dug out all my old books and started studying the basics again so I know what I'm doing this time. Or so I thought.
Here's my question: can someone explain stop down metering to me like I am the dumbest person you have ever met? I'd like to use some M42 lenses on this camera, but the more I read about it the more I want to get rid of the M42 paraphernalia I already have. What I have read is heavy on the 'why' stop down must happen but light on the 'here's-how-you-actually-do-it-you-moron.' I need the latter most. I think.
I don't plan on stepping foot in a darkroom ever again; as a public servant, I just can't afford it. Film and processing will be on a budget since I'm in grad school now. I don't plan on taking pictures professionally. I just want to shoot film again because I really enjoyed doing it. I work in the field and feel I see things others might not stop to notice sometimes. The frustration over my kid brother nearly destroying the camera and kit lens (a 55, which I guess is sort of unique) without telling anyone combined with realizing how much I have forgotten -- or maybe never knew to begin with -- is getting seriously depressing.
Like I said, I need some help and would really appreciate any insight.
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