A camera question: I have an old Konica SLR that's done me good service for the last twenty years. It has a battery for the onboard light meter, but that's it (low tech, I love it), but that battery's long dead. It's been a long time since I was au courant with photography, but I'm thinking the basic function of a camera should be unaffected by the onboard light meter not working, if I just set the exposure and everything myself. Am I wrong? I was going to get a disposable to take to the concert tomorrow, but a roll of film is cheaper
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Connie Neil - Jul 15, 2005 6:52:13 am PDT #247 of 10002
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DXMachina - Jul 15, 2005 7:02:24 am PDT #248 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
That should work fine. As you say, you'll just have to estimate the exposure.
Or buy a new battery.
Tom Scola - Jul 15, 2005 7:03:05 am PDT #249 of 10002
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20 years old? How many megapixels did cameras have in 1985?
tommyrot - Jul 15, 2005 7:06:17 am PDT #250 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
How many megapixels did cameras have in 1985?
Silly Tom. Cameras didn't have megapixels then. A tiny pterodactyl looks through the lens and then uses its beak to etch the image onto a slab of stone.
Connie Neil - Jul 15, 2005 7:15:23 am PDT #251 of 10002
brillig
1985?
Huh, it's older than that, I bought it in 1979 for college, I'd forgotten.
A tiny pterodactyl looks through the lens and then uses its beak to etch the image onto a slab of stone.
Actually . . . many, many years ago, a tiny bug crawled into the works of the camera body and died, leaving its body inside the mirror-viewfinder mechanism. When you look through the viewfinder, you see a bug corpse in the middle of the picture, but it doesn't show on the pictures. I love lending my camera to people who don't know about Buggie, because they always jump when they look through it.
Volans - Jul 15, 2005 7:29:52 am PDT #252 of 10002
move out and draw fire
I just watched Pitch Black again, and it's three suns. They talk a lot about the lighting and film color-correction based on which sun/s are in the sky at what angle. (Commentary track).
shrift - Jul 15, 2005 7:37:03 am PDT #253 of 10002
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Gudanov - Jul 15, 2005 7:38:22 am PDT #254 of 10002
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I just watched Pitch Black again, and it's three suns.
For some reason I was thinking there was just two suns in that little model of the solar system. I must have misremembered.
Volans - Jul 15, 2005 7:41:04 am PDT #255 of 10002
move out and draw fire
I just went and checked IMDb to make sure my memory wasn't going (post first and ask later, that's my motto), and their blurb says "a planet that has three suns orbiting around it."
So my confidence is shot - if they don't know what orbits what, can they count?
sarameg - Jul 15, 2005 7:48:16 am PDT #256 of 10002
shrift, at least it is moderately innocuous. Several years ago, I got one with the gist of people get the government they deserve.
Why yes, it was right around the time of some local elections.