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Well, if you're more than 'just-beginning-and-very-excited' type of photog, you know the drill. You buy the priciest camera you can afford, and it gives you practically nothing. Nuffin, nada.

Ok, ok. I'll slow down. Of course it gave me many things, freedom to think, compose, expose. But All the pictures I got with my beloved f801s, I could have gotten with any PS disposable.

Not that I'd trade =D.

Zenit ET

Very metallic piece. Lack of longer exposure times (apart from B) was a bummer. I figured out how Selenium meter worked about week before I bought F801s, so didn't get lot's of good pictures.

How Zenit ET's selenium light meter works

See that 'sun panel' above lens? It's that selenium panel. In bright sunlight, try convering it and notice how a needle in a window (near film rewind lever) moves. Use a ring with numbers on it (near film rewind lever) to adjust a ring in that window to be about where that needle is. Now those value pairs tell you acceptable combinations of time/apperture.
Remember that selenium meter is incident meter, so it may be a way off. Some experimenting will definitely pay off.

How Zenit ET's film rewind works

Shutter release button is protruded from body, usually black piece. It has a dent, You're supposed to press inner 'shell' inside this dent with a finger. There will be a click, and you will be able to rewind the film with lever on the left side of the body (it's turned around and hidden in 'light-meter' -ring). Rewind film until it feels like it's off the winding lever, now you can pull the rewinding lever higher, it will open the film compartment.

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(5¼ years ago) | /photo/gear/zet | Comments 0

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