phillip_carew

<p>Harry, it was a partly cloudy day, whilst I was taking photos of the coyote there was a cloud overhead. From the responses a lot of the issue seems to come from the scans, and some from my technique/camera so I will continue to experiment and get prints in future. Thank you for the responses.<br> Also, a reference is <em>extremely</em> helpful! Thank you Zoltan. <br> Larry, I will see what I can do with shooting the negatives.</p>

<p>Thank you for the insight, Stephen, what do you mean by meter off a darker area?<br> From your response I suspect I should buy a new film, use it, then see if the "graininess" improves, if it does I'll run with it. <br> Hector, I may have unintentionally bracketed two exposures whilst trying to capture a coyote, all that changed was the angle at which I was holding the camera (see attached photo).</p><div></div>

<p>Bela, thank you for your response, but it doesn't apply to my camera, there is only one dial on the camera to adjust the light meter. The battery is brand new. The description for the light meter is simply "light metering system: TTL full aperture metering using SPC: Evaluative metering, and I don't know how to access it or check it, unless it's suggested that I can take it to a professional to check it or anyone can point me to where I can find information online about how to look at it myself I don't think I can do much about the light meter. <br /> If you are unfamiliar with the camera I suggest looking at <a href="http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/hardwares/classics/eos/eoscamera/750-850/eos750.htm">this link</a></p> <p> </p>

<p>I'm fairly sure there's no metering setting I can change or a display in the viewfinder showing me a meter.</p> <p>Karim, I don't think it has exposure compensation, this camera is from 1988. I have a feeling the film may be the issue given I have no idea how old it is. </p>

<p>I'm new to film photography and having received a Canon EOS 750 as a gift to get me started I set out with the Canon EF 100-200mm 1:45 A lens just to take photos and see how they came out. I'm puzzled with the result after using the recommended DX coded film that came with it (ISO 400).<br> I had the images developed and scanned to a CD so maybe it's the scans combined with the grain? <br> My question is this: what causes a lot of grain in film photography?<br> Everything was in focus, it was a partly cloudy day, there really aren't any settings to play with on the camera, thoughts?</p><div></div>