kristjan_s

<p>Everything with the camera looks like it is working perfectly, including the meter. I think even if it does die in the future I will be able to estimate using the EV dial. It is quite unfortunate that there is no manual override but I'm not going to complain. </p> <p>I found it quite fun to shoot with. My grandma thought it was pretty neat I was using a 50+ year old camera, and everyone was very impressed by the quality of the colour and detail when I emailed out the scans - although maybe their expectations were also very low! </p>

<p>Oh that's rather unfortunate that the EV dial doesn't seem to do anything without the working meter. I'm not holding my breath but hopefully the meter on this one is still working. I'll get it and run a roll through and see what happens anyway. I'll have another camera there of course - just thought it would be fun to try out the Ricoh for this special occasion. </p>

<p>Russ, the camera is an "auto" meaning there are no manual controls to set f-stop and shutter unfortunately. But as I mentioned above I think that I can still do the same using the EV dial. </p>

<p>Thank you for the response. The camera doesn't show aperture or shutter speed values - there is an EV dial from 6 to 17 - but I think I can apply the same technique with EV15 set at 100 ISO. I don't have a light meter that displays EV, but I've found some EV charts so that could be a decent enough work-around if the meter is dead. </p>

<p>Hi, I am new to this forum and to TLRs - I recently found out that my mom has my grandfather's first camera: a Ricoh Auto 66. I don't actually have it in my possession yet, but am quite excited to try it out. I had my mom look at the light meter and she says that it does respond to light. She sent me pictures and it is quite dusty but otherwise it looks pretty tidy.</p> <p>My grandma is turning 90 at the end of the month and thought it would be neat to take some family photos with this camera. I'll only get the camera that day so won't have time to test it out first. I looked at the other posts on this site about the Ricoh but still have a couple questions. </p> <p>How can I know if the light meter is actually accurate, since it is only auto with no control over aperture and shutter unless in bulb or flash mode? Is there a way to check? I suppose I could also bracket my shots just to increase the chance I get something correctly exposed. Do modern flashes work with these cameras?</p> <p>What film would people recommend? I was thinking of Porta Pro 400 or Ilford XP-2 400. </p> <p>Any other tips would be also appreciated. <br> Thanks, <br> Kristjan</p>