Okay this is probably a dumb question, but I'm a beginner. I took my lens off my canon ae1 to clean this spec off and while the lens was off I accidentally pressed the shutter button. Did this ruin my film I had shot that was in the camera ?
Thank you so much!It would only have exposed one single frame of your film.
This means that when you finish the roll of film, you should have 35 frames with images and one frame that is blank. Presuming you have a 36 frame roll of film in the camera, that is.
Pressing the shutter button when doing what you are doing certainly does happen, usually a safer way to clean a lens is with it on the camera. By keeping a lens on the camera body you have less chance of dust and other stuff entering the camera innards. Another way to do this is to have a lens body cap, which replaces a lens and keeps your camera innards safe and dark, so that if you accidently press the shutter button, you don't waste a frame; instead you utulise the multiple exposure mechanism (if your camera has one) then merrily go on your way.
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Mick.
Does the AE-1 have a shutter lock switch?
There was no lens on the camera, so the lens mount acts as a large pinhole: everything is in focus! The sharpness may not be up to very demanding standards however.likely out of focus,
Try it yourself, even with a digital camera...nothing is 'in focus', even if exposure is proper.There was no lens on the camera, so the lens mount acts as a large pinhole: everything is in focus! The sharpness may not be up to very demanding standards however.
You don't say. I was employing irony, prompted by your cautious language: "likely out of focus" (emphasis mine).Try it yourself, even with a digital camera...nothing is 'in focus', even if exposure is proper.
Irony does not come thru readily on a written medium unless you use a smilieYou don't say. I was employing irony, prompted by your cautious language: "likely out of focus" (emphasis mine).
Grainelevator is right in that way that there is no plane of focus, as it being basically a pinhole, though as he indicated at such aperture of the hole there will be no decernible image at all, so the focusing characteristics will no longer matter.Try it yourself, even with a digital camera...nothing is 'in focus', even if exposure is proper.
Can't call a hole as big as the lens mount a pin hole. He will get just an exposed piece of film and no image. The exposure isn't likely to be correct either as the AE-1 only has shutter priority and with the lens off there is no aperture to control.Grainelevator is right in that way that there is no plane of focus, as it being basically a pinhole, though as he indicated at such aperture of the hole there will be no decernible image at all, so the focusing characteristics will no longer matter.
One shot wasted,
All earlier shots made to whatever level of quality (or not). not effected by abpve shot
- likely underexoposed or overexposed,
- likely out of focus,
- likely not of any subject for which you have any interest
If the lens throat on an AE1 was used with an 11x14 camera, it might behave a little bit like a lousy pinhole.
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