It's hard to tell, but camera may have an oily magnet, which will make
all exposures erratic at best.
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Lukasz Grabun wrote:
> Hello there,
>
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> I was shooting in AUTO mode. Having shot a number of pictures with f/1.8 I
> tried to slow down the lens to f/16 (the maximum aperture). The viewfinder
> lightmeter indicated something about one second exposure time. It was no
> problem since I had a tripod with me and the camera was already mounted on
> so I just pressed the button. The shutter was opened for *definetely* less
> than one second. I'd say it was 1/30 or 1/60 rather; I thought to myself,
> a-ha, something's fishy around here. It looked like as if the camera's
> mechanism couldn't set proper shutter mode. I switched to manual mode and
> make a shot. The image in the viewfinder was darkend for an about one
> second - which was, as I thought, as long as it should be. For the rest of
> the roll I used manual mode almost exlusively, being afraid that AUTO mode
> would spoil the pictures.
>
> I had the film developed today. To my great surprise most of my manually
> set frames were overexposed whereas those taken in AUTO mode - even though
> the needle indicated time ten times longer than one would judge by
> listening to the sound of shutter - are properly exposed.
>
> Here's a sample: the first shot was taken with f/1.8 and corresponding
> time in AUTO mode, f/16 was used on the second one and even though
> lightmeter indicated a time of 1 second the shutter was opened for
> noticably shorter time (still AUTO mode). The last picture was exposed in
> the manual mode. As you can see, even though I conformed to the lightmeter
> indications, the shot is badly overexposed.
>
> http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/4802/exposure8xb.jpg
>
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