Hey. I have a sudden urge to go buy some B&W film and take out my dad's film SLR camera and try it out. I'm a complete newbie at this obviously, so I know nothing about SLR's really. So do I need batteries, which I'm assuming yes, so what kind and where do I get them? Is there anything I can do that will break the camera that I should avoid, besides dropping it of course. Any links to sites that explain would be good, I can't find anything that's not selling me a camera instead of telling me how to use it.
Okay I found this on the Canon Camera history site that my particular camera takes One 4G-13 6 V mercury oxide battery or 4LR44 alkaline battery where can I get this, at what price and what does it look like so I'll know?
Okay I found this on the Canon Camera history site that my particular camera takes One 4G-13 6 V mercury oxide battery or 4LR44 alkaline battery where can I get this, at what price and what does it look like so I'll know?
Less then $5.00, but looks like you can find it for about $2.00-$3.00.
It looks like that one might work without a battery since it has manual rewind, but you need a battery for the light meter to work. If you don't have one, you can probably just go out and use the sunny f/16 rule (Shooting a frontlit subject on a sunny day at f/16, set the shutter speed to the closest corresponding number of your ISO - with ISO 100 film use 1/100th of a second). If it's not sunny I wouldn't know what to do without a meter, except maybe expose by one stop higher?
You might be able to get a battery at Radio Shack, I found one for mine there. It was like 15 bucks though.
Okay I found this on the Canon Camera history site that my particular camera takes One 4G-13 6 V mercury oxide battery or 4LR44 alkaline battery where can I get this, at what price and what does it look like so I'll know?
Less then $5.00, but looks like you can find it for about $2.00-$3.00.
It looks like that one might work without a battery since it has manual rewind, but you need a battery for the light meter to work. If you don't have one, you can probably just go out and use the sunny f/16 rule (Shooting a frontlit subject on a sunny day at f/16, set the shutter speed to the closest corresponding number of your ISO - with ISO 100 film use 1/100th of a second). If it's not sunny I wouldn't know what to do without a meter, except maybe expose by one stop higher?
You might be able to get a battery at Radio Shack, I found one for mine there. It was like 15 bucks though.
Okay I found this on the Canon Camera history site that my particular camera takes One 4G-13 6 V mercury oxide battery or 4LR44 alkaline battery where can I get this, at what price and what does it look like so I'll know?
Less then $5.00, but looks like you can find it for about $2.00-$3.00.
Where?
I googled the battery and a couple places had it at that price.
I think these people have the4LR44 Its cheep
link If the camera works w/out the batteries, I think there is an insert w / the film that suggests apature shutter combos for basic situations.
My photo prof made us hand in our batteeries for the first 2 weeks of the semester, so in 1981 most cameras functioned without them. I had a Minolta compleely manuel. don't know which model.
In some older manual cameras, the battery powers the light meter.
Most stores that sell cameras would have the batteries. You could order online but you would probably pay more in shipping than what the cost of the battery is.
Thanks for all your replies guys. I've rumaged through the camera stuff and have found the manual. Surprisingly enough there is a battery in the camera and it's working, I didn't expect that since it hasn't been used in more than a year.
Also, I don't buy anything online at all - My mom won't let me get a paypal account and I have no credit cards, lol.
So yeah, if anyone has any sites that explain film slr usage rather than just specs, that would be great!
Do you have a Walgreens near you? I have found bats for my Canon AE-1 Program and my Wifes Old Minolta both there. I believe the price ranged from 4-8 dollars the minolta bat cost double the price of the other.
Do you have a Walgreens near you? I have found bats for my Canon AE-1 Program and my Wifes Old Minolta both there. I believe the price ranged from 4-8 dollars the minolta bat cost double the price of the other.
Do they have Walgreens in Canada? I've never seen one before.
Do they have Walgreens in Canada? I've never seen one before.
never seen a Walgreens here -
RadioShack was bought out by "The Source" which i thought was a Cnd arm of Circuit City (still over priced junk but a good stock of batteries)
problem with old cameras that require Mercury cells is ,,, they don't make them anymore .. you have to find a proper replacement since the ones that are aprox. sized may have slightly less/more voltage whihc will mess up your metering ...
