Posts: 4, Have you tired to carefully pry it open with the revind lever raised? It could be that the light seals are sticky - happens with age. Got it open, I pried it really hard. Posts: 5, If you take off the bottom plate on most Pentax models, just three accessible screws you can pry without causing too much cosmetic damage.
The rewind knob should be pulled up enough to release the latch, then held up with something, so you aren't trying to rip the latch off too. On some cameras, after removing the bottom plate, you can also remove the bottom hinge pin, which may help. Removing the top plate is kind of involved. Posts: 1, How hard did you have to pry? On my two Spotmatics, it doesn't require too much force. Then, it encounters a spring. When you let go, the spring pulls the rewind crank back to the first position.
You certainly should not need to use any kind of tool. Some people, new to Spotmatics, are not aware that of that spring and think that that is as far as the crank goes. On mine, once the latch is released, the back pops open, with no assistance. I do not need to pull the back from the camera body. Posts: 41, Originally posted by noblepa. Well, it's stuck again, to open it I need to pry the top part of the back with a small flathead. Posts: 13, Bamboo cooking skewers can be your friend with things like this: relatively-thick ones can apply nice even pressure without marring anything, and then you can use em with a little rubbing alcohol to clear out the gunk of the bad light seals.
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Download Article Explore this Article Steps. Tips and Warnings. Related Articles. Load the battery. Although not required for operation, the battery powered light meter built into the K prevents the user from having to carry a separate meter or guess the right f-stop to use. To load a battery into the K, first locate the battery door on the bottom of the camera and insert a coin or flat head screwdriver into the slot. Unscrew the door until it can be removed from the camera body. Insert a single LR44 or SR44 into the camera with the positive side facing out of the camera.
The door can now be screwed back onto the camera to secure the battery. To check if the battery is working correctly, look through the viewfinder of the K with a lens on the camera and the cap off of the lens. When moving the camera from an area of darkness to an area of light, the needle on the right of the viewfinder should move from the bottom of the viewfinder to the top.
Determine what film is needed for your shoot. The K requires 35mm film, which is available in several types. Color, black and white, slide, and infrared film can be used in the K The speed of the film to be used is dependent on the subject and environment the subject is in. A higher film speed, such as ASA , can be used in lower light and produces less blur when the subject or camera is in motion.
A lower film speed, such as ASA , is better for shooting in brighter light, but can produce more blur. A lower speed film will typically have a better quality than higher speed films, which may have a larger grain. Select a lens. The K uses lenses with the Pentax K bayonet mount. Adapters can also be found to use other style lenses with the K The K is commonly found with a 50mm prime lens, but many others can be found that were made with the K bayonet mount system.
Zoom lenses can be used in a large variety of situations but owning several different prime lenses is popular among many photographers as well. To mount a lens on the K, first line the red dot on the side of the lens up with the red dot on the camera body and insert the lens into the body of the K Twist the lens clockwise until the lens is unable to move any more.
To remove the lens, press the release button on the front of the camera inward and rotate the lens counter-clockwise until it can be removed from the camera. Load the camera with film. To open the back of the K and load a roll of film, pull up on the film rewind lever until the back of the camera pops open. Place the film cartridge nub side down into the chamber on the left of the camera, with the film leader facing towards the right of the camera.
To lock the cartridge in place, press the rewind lever back down into the camera body. Pull the film leader out of the cartridge and across the camera, keeping it straight, until it can be secured in the slot in the film take-up of the K After feeding the leader into the slot enough to keep it secured, actuate the quick advance lever on the camera, making sure the perforations on the film catch on the sprockets to the left of the take-up. If the film moved advanced smoothly and did not release itself from the slot on the take-up, then press the shutter and advance the film again.
If the film advanced smoothly the second time then close the camera back and alternate activating the shutter and advancing the film until the shot dial on the top of the camera is set to zero.
Set the film speed on the camera. To set the film speed on the camera, lift the outer ring on the shutter speed dial and rotate the dial until the number matches the speed of your film.
Set the shutter speed and aperture. The integrated light-meter in the K's viewfinder shows when the camera is set up to give optimal brightness in a photo when the camera is pointed at the subject. The needle in the viewfinder indicates optimal brightness when the needle is pointing horizontally across the viewfinder to the left. When the needle is pointing higher the photo is too bright, and when the needle is pointing lower the photo is too dark.
To adjust the brightness, first rotate the aperture ring to see if the brightness improves. A lower aperture size, or f-stop, allows more light through the lens, brightening the picture. A higher f-stop allows less light through the lens, darkening the picture. If the needle does not move, then rotate the shutter speed dial and try to adjust the f-stop again. A higher shutter speed allows less light through to the film, and a lower shutter speed allows more light through to the film.
Any shutter speed less than can be used with a flash and would mean a longer exposure time and more chance of blur if a flash is not used.
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