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<p>Thank you so much, I will definitely be doing more regular battery checks; The Walgreens I use develops in-house, taking under an hour each time. So my final query is this: being that i've been shooting exclusively on automatic- which if I understand correctly means the camera does its own metering, setting its own shutter speed; if i'm shooting outdoor as in the blown out examples above (which a 400 ISO roll of film should be more than capable of capturing), do the underexposures mean that my camera is metering the light incorrectly when set to automatic, signaling another problem?<br> Or perhaps I'm setting the exposure when hovering over the wrong part of the image I want to take, making the camera meter a blue sky while underexposing everything else?<br> Assuming those are the only two possibilities for this consistently underexposed roll?<br> Again, so very much appreciated, thanks.</p>

<p>Thanks for all the responses!<br> ASA was set to 400, shooting in automatic (A) (which from reading the manual I assume is the setting for aperture priority because it adjusts the shutter speed by metering + whichever f-stop...?) exposure compensation was set to 0, but the batteries were about a week old, so maybe that was the problem?<br> It's just so odd because it seems to happen sporadically, like i'll get really nice shots like these:<br> http://tinypic.com/r/2njc9bt/8<br> http://tinypic.com/r/2q3yt5u/8<br> and then randomly i'll get a few that look like the above; except for this last roll which was basically entirely underexposed or whatever this odd green/brown blow out is.<br> Again, I really appreciate all the help.</p>

<p>Just purchasing it from any drug store, it all being well before the expiration date. I am definitely getting an image but as you can see in the examples the colors are sorta funky. Not sure if it's underexposure or poor processing?</p>

<p>So,<br> I am in the very embryonic stages of shooting strictly 35mm, and while I love it, i'm having some issues and i'm not sure if it's a camera problem, a processing problem (Walgreens), or something else.<br> Here are a few examples:<br> (1) http://tinypic.com/r/v46vbb/8 <br> (2) http://tinypic.com/r/5v6i5g/8 <br> (3) http://tinypic.com/r/24xmbl4/8 <br> Now for the last few rolls i've developed at the same Walgreens, 90% of them come out as expected with one or two with the weird tones and coloration? However with my last roll, this happened to about the entire roll. I'm not even sure what the problem is, but the color's either blown out like in ex. 1 and 3, or the color's completely off, like in ex. 2. <br> The camera is a Nikon F3 and these were shot on your basic Kodak 400 ISO using a Nikkor 50mm 1.4. The camera and lens were my grandmother's and had been used heavily, but it's just started doing this more frequently so i'm not sure what the problem is.<br> Any help would be greatly, greatly appreciated.<br> Thanks!<br> Jeremy</p>