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Could anyone give me some advice on my rather ambitious camera project.
I recently got a batch of fp100c film (thanks Extra) and I've sourced a old polaroid 105 camera to take some pictures. Unfortunately as the camera is old and was cheap off ebay the electronics are a little shot. The shutter sometimes works, and it sometimes doesn't, hardly useful.
So anyway I'm going to attempt to get working in a different way. The easiest way would be to create a pinhole camera, still possible, I'll just need to calibrate the hole on a DSLR to calculate exposure times. This won't be too much trouble. The other way would be to use a light meter - are there any cheap light meters that go up to f100? (approx for a pinhole)
My other plan is to convert the camera to use a large format lens with a shutter built in. I have sourced such a lens for peanuts on ebay and thankfully it works! It's an old Anaston Lens with a Pronto shutter. The only think which I'm unsure about is focussing. The camera has no way to focus manually other than just trying some film out and seeing if it works. I'd ideally not do this and try to set up the lens matching the focal length. It's a 105mm lens, what point of the lens is it best to measure from? The aperture blades? Googling the subject was less than informative.
Sorry - long post