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My Picture is Cut in Half When I take pictures with my 35 mm a Yashica tl electro (old camera) and I get my prints back only half the picture is there & the other half is black. I used a flash.
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Jon Close |
While it's possible you had a shutter malfunction, the most probable cause is setting the shutter speed faster than the flash sync speed of that camera. The FP x-sync speed of this camera is 1/90 second. That is the fastest shutter speed that opens the shutter fully on the whole frame of film. Flash photos must be taken at 1/90 or slower shutter speeds. At faster shutter speeds (1/125 to 1/1000) the first and second curtain of the focal plane shutter form a narrow slit that moves across the film. When the flash fires, its light falls only on the section of film not covered by the shutter curtains at that moment. The rest of the frame ends up being severly underexposed ("black"). An online user manual for the Yashica TL Electro can be found at
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