Photography questions

[charlie8575]

Charlie....Do not spend $120 on your AE1.....the foam shields are on the door edges....a narrow ribbon of felt will work....use pliobond to cement it down. In the thousands of AE 1s I serviced....repairs were normally not needed...well made and well timed camera..the release magnet (MG2) was the biggest problem. When it was bad...the camera will not set the mirror tension and self trips...

Good to know, Mike. The rest of the camera does work well, I was just thinking that were it's 30 years old, a little preventitive maintenance wouldn't hurt. I'll try the felt/Pli-O-Bond repair.

Mike D.- as long as I've been taking pictures, I never really got into the technical side of things too much, and then, I always found it hard to remember what does what- all I know is my pictures come back from CVS nicely-developed and I'm happy. I have a couple of basic photography books I keep around for reference, though, and sometimes these questions come up that I'm not thinking too much about until the matter is brought up by somebody else.

With the leaves turning soon, I'll be heading over to the old stone church in West Boylston on the Wachusett Reservoir and taking some pictures there. That will make a beautiful back-drop. For added drama, Dad has a Russian-made camera that's set up for taking panoramic shots (16 pictures for a 24-shot roll of 35mm film, which would work nicely for the side of a display case.

Charlie Larkin

[MikeMc]

Charlie, and others....this is a DOF scale....easy to read and understand....A great "photography book" is the USN Photographers mate 3 and 2.....10.00 used book stores...explains mosteverything you might want to know..

[charlie8575]

Of course.....

Now I really feel silly! For whatever reason, I never made the connection.

Off experimenting tomorrow after class.

Charlie Larkin