i think my lovely CANON A-1 Does have a fault with exposure -- using outdated film ( here: 03/2009 Dated ILFORD HP5+ ) usually one should give MORE exposure than 'Box Speed' but to get better quality negatives, not so DENSE I have had to set 1200ASA on the dial -- I also cut development time in FX-4 1+1 from 11 mins to 10 mins and got much better negs. HOWEVER, when I took photos in 'Low Light' situation giving me 1/8th second shutter speed the negs were 'Thin-- UNDER-EXPOSED' but the daylight ones where I got say 1/500th were good. So it seems there IS a fault in the exposure circuit of my A-1 -- Now I have re-loaded the cut film into an AE-1 set to 650 ASA to see what happens ! Here i also changed the LENS to a TOKINA AT-X 28-85mm f3.5-4.5 but it's not the Canon FD lens playing up. 1/8th at f8 Low Light test : 1/8th sec at f8 -- Thin Negative Canon A-1 low light test by Peter Elgar, on Flickr Daylight Test: Faster speed 1/250th at f8 Canon A-1 daylight test by Peter Elgar, on Flickr I DID the infamous A Series 'Canon Squeak' years ago and it is still good. Today took off base=plate with my proper JLS Screwdriver and fired shutter and all seemed well
The first pic seems over exposed especially in the background lit areas, the second looks great to me wonderful composition there.
There is a Drinks Cabinet on Left which is brighter but on a PRINT I did before I burnt that area in -- These are Neg Scans for speed so cannot easily 'burn in 'areas using FastStone Image Viewer as it doesn't have all the 'tools' that PhotoShop has.
