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Thanks for the tips. Batteries are some new LR44s - the light meter appears to work but from research I get the impression that people don't trust it after x amount of years. I did something about light seals, but from a glance, nothing seems obvious
Plan was just to put it automatic mode, click and shoot for the next week when out and about and see what happens.
cmburns
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Fresh battery and shooting a test roll is a good idea (and even more so if you're quite methodical about it, as in: shooting a wide variety of (lighting) situations, and noting down on a piece of paper what shutter speed and f-stop was used for each of the frames, so you have a bit of a clearer idea what might be wrong if pics aren't properly exposed), you could use any (cheap) film for this.
Check the light seals of the camera (the foam stuff along the edges of the film door in the back, especially near the hinge - if this feels quite dry / crumbly / sticky there might be problems with light leaks - but you'd also see this when developing your test roll.
Nice camera by the way, have fun! 🙂