I am a high school student. I have never touched a film camera before studying photography. Now I have a Ricoh xr8. Please teach me how to use it and how to operate it!

I have never used Ricoh xr8 camera, but other brands have used it, and the usage principle is similar.

1. When loading negatives by purely manual mechanical machine, the film tongue should be inserted into the hole with the same size and width as the negatives. After covering the back cover, roll the film winding handle and press the shutter once. If you don't press the shutter, you can't roll the handle. Repeat this action until the negative number indicator shows 1, and the film loading program is completed.

second, what is your sensitivity? Adjust the photo-crossing knob on the fuselage to the corresponding position, and adjust it to 4 with a negative of 4.

third, how to adjust the shutter and aperture? How to judge is correct? In the viewfinder, also known as the focus screen, there will be photometric display, some with light signals, some with needle chasing, and the light signals will be displayed in red, yellow and green.

the needle chasing mode is adding and subtracting symbols.

suppose that the aperture of the lens is adjusted to 3.5 first, and then the light signal display is observed from the focusing screen. If it is biased towards red, it means underexposure, then turn the shutter dial until it is biased towards green. If you set the shutter first, then adjust the aperture.

film shooting would rather be slightly overexposed than underexposed.

fourth, pay attention to the exposure compensation position, which is generally .

For friends who are using manual mechanical cameras for the first time, the most common mistakes are that the film is not properly loaded, the display does not jump and does not check, the sensitivity setting is often inconsistent with the use, and the exposure compensation position is not at .

supplement: the purely manual mechanical camera has no exposure compensation function.