From: Johnny Johnson
> ....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....
>
Coincidentally yesterday I took some photos of a job i had recently
completed and when I got home and reloaded the camera I noticed that the
ASA setting was way off, 1600. Now I only have been using 200 or 400
speed film so it couldn't have been forgetting to reset the dial when
changing film. I believe that the change occurred during the last few
shots when I was changing the compensation dial because of lighting
conditions. The camera was up high on the tripod and I couldn't see the
ASA setting. I'll have to wait and see how many shots were ruined. I
guess this is a good reason to use spot metering rather than the
compensation dial.
Mike
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