Extremely. :) You can usually find a Pentax k1000 in an old camera shop. The guys at the one in the video actually repair them so maybe you can find a similar shop where you live?

Very, unless you want the expense of buying and the flaff of using a separate meter. Separate meters are considered to be "professional" stuff so will cost several times as much as even a fully working K1000.

Yep it's the law.

The camera shop processes them with chemicals and then scans the negs.

soz

50mm and 24mm

Yep. :) One is the KM and one is the K1000... Gotta get those clicks though.

Sorry man... So many people have said this I should re upload the video haha.

I know it's been 5 months, but you don't meter (I mean I don't). There is a Guide Number about the power of your flash. Flashes like the above one (contax tla200) can do TTL metering, so it is going to meter the scene for itself, and adjust the power correctly. You just need to dial in the settings you want. I used to have G1, and I was using the sibling of this flash, the TLA140, and I just set my aperture to f4, went real close, and my photograph turned out nicely. There are flashes which can't do TTL metering, then they are always firing at FULL POWER! Usually, there is a little table of settings on the back of the flash which tells you the correct settings. For example, for a subject at which is 10 feet away, you are going to need an aperture of f8 to have a correct exposure with the syncronization of the flash. Real simple. Medium format, and leaf shutter lenses can throw some math at you, but nothing too hard.

Hey man. Sorry for such a slow reply. I think Levente gave a really comprehensive answer to this... The short answer was yer we weren't really metering because the camera was doing some voodoo magic to auto calibrate for the flash.

Thanks guys, it’s better having an answer later when you forgot about it

Not really... haha the iso is limited to your film stock (we used portra 400) so it's really nothing like a video camera which all have amazing iso performance.

@@ChrisButel Not just the limitation of the film, the Spotmatic/KM/K1000 light meter is poor at low light levels. It used a CdS photocell (out-of date in cameras by 1975) instead of the newer types of photocells replacing them.

@0:50 for the first question.

Thinking about it... :)

Gotta get those keywords in my man.

You're probs right but I don't have the heart to go back and watch this haha.

@@ChrisButel haha

did you ever figure this out? have the g1 and mine wont shoot off either

Christopher Hernandez it turned out my flash was fine, my shutter was actually broken so i had to get that fixed. if you’re having the same problem it could be the shutter too

Glad you got this sorted Angel... sorry I couldn't be more help. If you hit up Troy on IG he should be able to help with any questions you have. :)

Cool man. It's always good to experiment. I think the contax was set to aperture priority if that helps.

Usually the shop will scan it for you

Or you can buy a film scanner that scans film to digital.

Lol gotta get those clicks.

I think they are really similar. It comes down to the film stock and lenses in my humble opinion.