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Old April 1st 12, 01:46 PM posted to rec.photo.technique.misc
Alex Monro
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Default first 35mm roll a disaster

Joe Zakko wrote:


Hi, new to this forum. I've shot a lot of 16mm motion, but i just shot
my first roll of 35mm on a nikon fm i just got, and it was a huge
disaster. I have no clue what went wrong, out of 24 exposures only 15
came out, the others weren't exposed. Guy at CVS said that I 'forgot' to
take those ones. I know I took all of them, it's not like i
accidentally skipped nine of them, so I'm not sure what happened there.
Also, there are various things wrong with a lot of the ones that did
come out.
http://tinyurl.com/7s53lbv

Not sure why the bottom half of that is black.

Looks like it could be a tapering shutter (the gap between the shutter
blinds changes as it moves across, due to 1 blind moving slower than
the other). I think the FM has a vertical running focal plane shutter.

Do you remember what shutter speed you were using for the shots that
did and didn't come out? The tapering shutter is likely to be worse at
faster shutter speeds. With a bit of luck, a fairly straightforward
CLA (clean, lube & adjust) service should sort it.
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