Taking pictures with a camera with manual shutter speed, aperture, and sharpness settings is more difficult than a camera with automatic. But even with a little experience using manual settings, you will get better quality photos.
Instructions
Step 1
Focusing in this case is the simplest operation. Here, the photographer's normal vision and the working order of the camera are important. Sharpen the picture on frosted glass. Later models have optical focusing aids. What you see in the viewfinder will match the final image.
Step 2
By adjusting the aperture, you control the luminous flux that hits the film surface. If you decrease the size of the hole, then the amount of light also decreases. And vice versa. Apertures with a value of 22, 16, 11, etc. must be counted as 1/22, 1/16, 1/11. It is a relative value that indicates the diameter of the aperture opening is smaller than the focal length. By changing one aperture value to another, the amount of light changes by half.
Step 3
The shutter speed doses the amount of light that hits the film. A value of 500 corresponds to 1/500 of a second, and so on. To reduce the amount of light by half, you need to switch to the adjacent shutter speed. On the reverse transition, this number increases.
Step 4
If you have 100 film units, then it is better to set the shutter speed to 125, for 200 film the shutter speed is 250, for 400-500. The number indicating the film speed should be approximately the same as the value you set for the shutter speed.
Step 5
The value for aperture depends on the light and time of day. 4 - very dark stormy sky, thick shadow of trees, evening after sunset; 5, 6 - heavy cloudiness, evening at sunset; 8 - medium cloudiness or shade of trees in sunny weather, 11 - sunlight in a haze, evening 2-3 hours before sunset; 16 - bright sun during the day in an open area (beach, for example). Modern films can tolerate excessive or insufficient lighting without much loss of quality.
Step 6
At the beginning of practice with Zenith, take a better film of 12 frames and write down the aperture value and shutter speed for each of them.
