I just looked at your contact sheet. I bet you are
getting a lot of light into the meter from the
viewfinder side. Several exposures are severerly
underexposed.> --- john yeo <jonnieo@thegrid.net>
wrote:
> A few days ago I made a pinhole body cap for my
> canon AE-1. I made the pinhole as small as I
> could,
snip
> > After looking through the viewfinder for a few
> > seconds, it's pretty easy to see the image. I
> have
> > a rubber eye-cup that really helps block out
> excess
> > light. For my first roll I used delta 3200.
> Using
> > the sunny 16 rule, I figured out exposure to be
> > about 1/15 sec. I have since made a dial
> > calculator, and it says it would be between 1/11
> and
> > 1/8 sec. Looking at the negatives, they could
> have
> > used the extra stop. Flare didn't seem too bad
> > through the viewfinder, but it is awful on the
> > negatives. I don't know what the vertical line is
> > on some of the frames (17,18,28,29) Maybe some of
> > you can provide an answer to that.
> >
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