its not digi. but i hope some one can help.

[Dirt_Bike_Ryda]

hey guys. i have a photography assessment for school and we HAVE to take some Film shots and develop them and print and all that. so i borrowed my mates Film SLR and put a new set of batteries in it, and the LED lights that the manual says are supposed to come on don't. these lights are the light meter. i have put the batteries in both ways. still nothing.

The camera is a Pentax MV1.

do i need to have Film loaded in it for them to work? or is it broken? i need to know because this type of camera only has Auto shutter speed, so i can't take things into my own hands.

thanks.

[fletch]

Don't know the camera but I wouldn't have thought you needed film for it to power up. My old Olympus film camera was fully auto only but would fire fine without any film in it.

[Dirt_Bike_Ryda]

Hmm... !!

it's not sounding promising..

[Chip]

I have an old Nikon film SLR, and it works fine (will turn on and meter) without film in it.

Good luck.

[inkista]

Kind of a PITA workaround, but why not bring a digital P&S with you as a light meter?

[Dirt_Bike_Ryda]

thing is i can't choose the shutter speed... the camera does that according to the light meter... so i don't know how it is going to know what shutter speed to use..

[duntroon]

hi
my name is tony
in reference to your question re your camera auto meter
i have a pentax spotmatic its over 30yrs old got it the other
put a battery in it and its still as if it was brand new.
make sure your batteries are a life(2) make sure you have inserted
them correctly,you can see this by looking at the battery cover.
all the best.

[inkista]

Hate to say it, but give up on that camera and go rent/buy/borrow one with Manual and a shutter speed dial, and/or a working meter. Old film SLRs are cheap these days.

[LoveDSLR]

Originally Posted by Dirt_Bike_Ryda

thing is i can't choose the shutter speed... the camera does that according to the light meter... so i don't know how it is going to know what shutter speed to use..

No experience with a Pentax but I believe MV-1 has a Mechanical shutter speed of 1/100s. Just select 100 between AUTO and B.

Without battery to power the meter, you can probably use the MV-1 as a SLR with a single shutter speed of 1/100s.

[Jim Bryant]

hahahaha, now you're gonna have to learn what it takes to be a real photographer by shooting film. Sometimes I miss the film days, photographers were photographers then, not now these days where as all you have to do to get a decent shot is point a dSLR on auto in the right direction.