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TTL EXPOSURE METERING WITH NIKON F10?
I'm a newbie dummie but I put the right batteries in the NIKON F10 and when I hit the shutter release no lighted up exposure metering appeared in the NIKON TTL. Do I need to have film in the camera before the exposure metering takes effect. They call the FM10 a manual camera and it mainly is but it has all the unecessary **** on it the Pentax K-1000 didn't have. You can properly expose manually usuing right film speed and aperture and shutter speed without exposure metering. Michael Ragland |
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TTL EXPOSURE METERING WITH NIKON F10?
On Jan 14, 10:24*pm, (Geoffrey S. Mendelson) wrote:
wrote: I'm a newbie dummie but I put the right batteries in the NIKON F10 and when I hit the shutter release no lighted up exposure metering appeared in the NIKON TTL. Do I need to have film in the camera before the exposure metering takes effect. They call the FM10 a manual camera and it mainly is but it has all the unecessary **** on it the Pentax K-1000 didn't have. You can properly expose manually usuing right film speed and aperture and shutter speed without exposure metering. I've never seen and FM10, but the standard for Nikon cameras is to turn on the meter by moving the wind lever out a little bit. It's called a manual camera because the shutter uses mechanical timing (hence the "M" in the name), which means except for the meter it will function without batteries. A similar camera with an electronicly timed shutter and "f stop" priority autoexposure was sold as the FE10, and with other features and an OM lens mount as the OM-30. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel *N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 Visit my 'blog athttp://geoffstechno.livejournal.com/ It doesn't appear to have exposure metering; I did what I was supposed to. I took good pictures with my K-1000 without exposure metering; it was trial and error. Purchased a Nikon E-series 50mm lense; apparently a litttle shorter in focal length a starter. Better than the ZOOM I hope. The NIKON F10 has a self timer 10 seconds which is great if it works because my shutter release nozzle won't depress. Also, it has a tiny rewind film button on the bottom yet a rewind film crank on the top! I think I will use the latter. Will take me a while to get the hang of it and start remembering what I learned in photography class. Michael Ragland |
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TTL EXPOSURE METERING WITH NIKON F10?
On Jan 14, 10:09*pm, wrote:
I'm a newbie dummie but I put the right batteries in the NIKON F10 and when I hit the shutter release no lighted up exposure metering appeared in the NIKON TTL. Do I need to have film in the camera before the exposure metering takes effect. They call the FM10 a manual camera and it mainly is but it has all the unecessary **** on it the Pentax K-1000 didn't have. You can properly expose manually usuing right film speed and aperture and shutter speed without exposure metering. Michael Ragland Michael, You might be a newbie, but I wouldn't say you are a dummy. Asking questions is never dumb. The FM-10 is a all manual camera. It is a basic SLR system for those who are learning or who don't want all the bells and whistles on their camera. It does have TTL metering and it reads in the view finder as - (under exposure) o(correct exposure) or +(over exposure). The two lr44 or ms-76's or the 1/3n battery is there only to power the meter. When you have the film wind lever open and away from the body and the shutter release pushed half way to release the LED's in the viewfinder should light up. The by changing the shutter speed or the aperture ring on the lens you should see the LED's change. Start with your ISO/ASA set at 400 and your shutter set at 200 and the lens at f/16. Now change one and see what happens. As for the little button on the bottom of the camera, it is there to unlock the transport mech that winds the film in one direction. So you can re-wind the film back into the canister by using the re-iwnd lever on the knob. As for your shutter release nozzel, I'm not sure as to what you mean. If I remember correctly there is a lock for the shutter release button to keep it from engaging. This camera is the best way of learning photography, when you are learning in a class. Hope this has answered some questions for you. Draco |
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TTL EXPOSURE METERING WITH NIKON F10?
I put the right batteries in the NIKON F10 and
when I hit the shutter release no lighted up exposure metering appeared in the NIKON TTL. If the FM10 works like most manual Nikons, you have to advance the film counter to "1" before the meter starts working. You should be able to do this without film in the camera by alternately using the film advance and pressing the shutter for 3 or 4 cycles. If you can't then there is probably something wrong with the camera. Try opening and closing the back to reset the film counter first. As pointed out above, you may need to have the film advance lever pulled away from the body to enable the meter, and the button on the bottom is a film rewind release than you must press before using the rewind crank to actually rewind the film. You can probably find an FM10 user's manual with a Yahoo/Google search. |
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