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<p>OK, still haven't mastered loading more than one photo at a time.<br> Patience.</p>

<p>I do, and therein lies a tale.</p> <p>I became facinated by photography several years before I was able to purchase my first camera. Fortunately, during that time, I was able to borrow one camera or another from friends or relatives. During that period I studied every photo magazine I could find, to help me decide how to spend the dollars I was saving for my own first camera. I came to two conclusions. To get the best bang for the buck I should look in the 'previously owned' market. Second, in the 35mm format the best quality was found in German cameras and lenses; this in spite of the fact that we were, at the time, still at war with that country.</p> <p>On a family trip to visit relatives in New York City I took my savings (paper route, lawn mowing) which, to the best of my recollection, amounted to about $20 - $25, and set out to make my purchase. The year was 1943. I headed straight to Willoughby's Camera Store whose ad's I had studied thousands of times in various magazines. I can still recollect how kindly I was treated by the salesman, and how patiently he explained the pros and cons of literally dozens of choices. Eventually he suggested one camera whose quality was much better than one would expect in my price range, but with a singular disadvantage that brought the price down. <em>I would have to load my own film.</em> The Agfa Karat uses a different cassette system with one-way travel from the unexposed film to the takeup cassette. Film in this format was no longer sold in this country. Fortunately he provided several empty cassettes with the camera. When I learned that 35mm film could be purchased in bulk at a substantial savings, lemons became lemonade.</p> <p>This then was my first and only camera for the next ten years. In 1953 I blew a few months of Army pay on a Contax IIa at the PX in Korea. I still use that camera, but the Agfa has long since been retired to the display case.</p> <p>The requisite camera porn, followed by a photo of my dad and one of me.<br> 　</p> <div></div>

<p>If this is due to wear and tear of the film advance mechanism causing slippage, one would expect to see overlap of frames rather than a larger than normal gap between frames. Still, the problem must lie somewhere in the advance mechanics. A trip to a competent repair facility is in order.</p>

<p>I wish to make a strobe lit photograph (with my D800) using my Nikon SB-26 in manual mode. I wish to determine the exposure using my Seconic Meter in non-corded flash mode. According to the meter's instructions I enter the shutter speed and ISO and then fire the strobe at the meter. The meter then displays the proper aperture.<br> <br /> I have run some tests and I am confused. Note that the tests have been conducted where there is essentially <strong>no ambient illumination</strong> (as will be the eventual photograph). I begin by setting the shutter speed to the maximum synch speed of my camera (1/250). The flash is set to 1/8 power. The recommended aperture is f/11. If I then enter a shutter speed of 1/125 on the meter and repeat the test, the recommended aperture is f/16. Thus my confusion.<br> <br /> I was under the impression that, when the flash provided essentially all the light for a shot, the shutter speed was of no consequence (provided it was at or below the maximum synch speed). Yet this test seems to suggest otherwise. Can someone please tell this tyro where he has gone astray?</p>