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Can you supply us with a backlit digital photo of the negatives themselves, with the edges and the space between the frames clearly visible.
Something like this, please.
(thanks to foc - I borrowed this from one of his posts).
Your negatives will, of course, be orange coloured colour negatives.
For the backlight, a window or a blank tablet/computer/cel phone screen works well, and the digital cameras in cel phones can usually do this too.
Be mindful of the file size limits when you upload,
First check that the batteries are fresh and that the battery contacts are clean. Then compare to Sunny 16 [Bright Sun light check the meter at f/16 and the shutter speed should be approximately 1/[film ISO]. If not then the meter needs to be adjusted.
Hi Matt,
I don't have the negatives unfortunately as I didn't opt to have them sent back to me from the development lab - will do so next time.
Fair warning - many of us here are absolutely aghast that labs are even offering not to return the negatives.
Negatives will always be the most complete record of your results. And the scanning process that is the most common way today to turn them into positives can be done very well, or very poorly, so not having the negatives can leave you with poor results from good photography, and with no way to fix the problem.
It is really, really hard to diagnose many problems from scans.
All of which is to say, it is important for you to have the negatives.
There are a few people here who have the knowledge, experience and equipment to do their own very high quality scans, and do elect to discard their negatives afterwards. Some of us consider that heresy.
We are happy here to help you as best we can, but those scans don't give us a lot to work with!
Hi, yes i set the shutter speed and aperture according to the recommendations. Metering method was aperture-priorityForgive me for asking, but when you say you were using the camera's meter plus another meter, did you set the camera's shutter speed and aperture according to the meters' recommendations?
Now you've got me confused. Aperture Priority isn't a metering method. It's an exposure mode. You set the aperture and the camera selects the shutter speed.
Is that what you were doing? You had the camera set on "Auto" and you selected an aperture on the lens and let the camera select a shutter speed?
Hi, yeah i'm confused myself. As I said it's my first time using a film camera so I'm learning from scratch/stuff I am reading online!
Basically (and apologies if i'm not explaining this in the right terms), I set my ISO to 200 as I was using Kodak Gold 200. I selected my aperture myself and the meter inside my camera indicated the shutter speed I need to set and tells me whether i'm over/underexposed. Or at least that's how I'm understanding it.
Sounds like you need to do a search for "BUTKUS CHINON CE-5", and read the manual. Don't bother to take it to a "shop". You can't use a camera correctly unless you know how to use it. That's what BUTKUS if for.
READ it and let us know if you still have problems.
https://www.butkus.org/chinon/chinon/ce-5/ce-5.htm
I would have said what xkaes said in a slightly more welcoming way.
Mike Butkus' site has a huge quantity and variety of instruction manuals on it, is a valuable resource, and his requested donation is excellent value.
And it is always an excellent idea to have and learn what is in the instruction manual - xkaes has provided the link.
Hi Matt,
I don't have the negatives unfortunately as I didn't opt to have them sent back to me from the development lab - will do so next time.
About the negatives - it might be the case that you had perfect exposures and the lab completely screwed up the scans. The only way to know for sure is to have the negs yourself. But hey, it's just your first roll.
Hi, yeah i'm confused myself. As I said it's my first time using a film camera so I'm learning from scratch/stuff I am reading online!
Basically (and apologies if i'm not explaining this in the right terms), I set my ISO to 200 as I was using Kodak Gold 200. I selected my aperture myself and the meter inside my camera indicated the shutter speed I need to set and tells me whether i'm over/underexposed. Or at least that's how I'm understanding it.
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