joshua_insel

<p>I did some testing, and I found that there is nothing wrong with the shutter, and the aperture is shutting all the way, but it appears to be closing too slowly.</p>

<p>I shot all these images on Velvia 100 film using a Canon AE-1 in manual mode. For these images, I either used an aperture of f/11 and a shutter speed of 1/250 or an aperture of f/16 and a shutter speed of 1/125. I have been having similar problems every time I shoot slide film, but I thought there was either something wrong with the Automatic Exposure mode or I was using the wrong aperture when doing manual. I have had no problems shooting black and white or color negative film. Could there be something wrong with my camera?<br> http://imgur.com/a/cc3od</p>

If it is an extremely bright day out, shouldn't I need an aperture between f/16 and f/22? On the light meter, that's what the needle points at. When I have it set to a shutter speed higher than 1/500, the meter is above the red line.

<p>No, I have other pictures on the same roll that I took when it wasn't as bright out, and they came out fine. However, I took these photos several months before I had the roll developed. Could that have to do with anything?</p>

Is the light meter reading supposed to change with the ISO setting? It doesn't on my camera. When I use 400 ISO film, I always try to get it around the center or a quarter of the way above, and my pictures always come out fine that way. The strange thing is that once I used Fuji Velvia once, and those came out fine, but I always have problems with Fuji Provia. I even bought a roll of Provia 400 once, and I got overexposed pictures with that. It was a bright, sunny day, and I used automatic exposure and shutter speeds of 1/250 and 1/500.

<p>The meter on the camera appears to be working fine. It registered as very bright when I took these photos. I took most of these using automatic exposure, and I adjusted the shutter speed until the meter was below the red line, which meant doing either 1/500 or 1/1000. </p>

<p>Well, I think I figured out my problems. The Canon AE-1's automatic exposure setting does not work well on very sunny days, and since I am relatively new to film photography, I somehow managed to mix up how f-stops work. I thought the lowest f-stop meant the smallest aperture. I feel really stupid now.</p>

<p>I have been shooting with Fujichrome Provia 100 lately using a Canon AE-1. Whenever I have shot using it outdoors on a bright, sunny day, when I get my photos back, they always appear to be overexposed no matter what I do. Here are a few photos I took recently. I know I shot one of them using 1/1000 shutter speed and f/1.8. What should I do to stop this from happening?</p> <p><img src="http://i59.tinypic.com/4zt8p3.jpg" alt="" /><br> <img src="http://i61.tinypic.com/30mo568.jpg" alt="" /><br> <img src="http://i60.tinypic.com/2m6ketj.jpg" alt="" /><br> <img src="http://i57.tinypic.com/2eeary8.jpg" alt="" /><br> <img src="http://i58.tinypic.com/2rq13ww.jpg" alt="" /><br> <img src="http://i60.tinypic.com/29m585d.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p> </p>