Can someone help me with my 35mm camera?

Question

It's a Kowa SE R. Basically I just want to know what adjusts what and anything having to do with the film. Thanks.

Answer 1

That's an old 35mm SLR camera.

Above post is correct, it uses the old mercury battery which is no longer allowed for sale in the US.

However, there are replacement batteries available. Below is a link for a replacement:
http://www.photobattery.com/zincair.html

Note that the replacement is 1.4v instead of 1.35v. The slight increase in voltage could in theory cause a problem with the meter, but it's doubtful that it would be significant. That's on the assumption that the meter is working on your camera in the first place, of course.

Also, I did some searching and found a manual for an SE T model (pdf format). Probably very similar to yours. Hope it helps.
http://66.49.230.119/pdf_files/kowa_se_t.pdf

Answer 2

You don't have an Owner's Manual??????

Try looking here to find one: http://www.adorama.com/sitemap/ind_0227.html

In the mean time do all the research you can about "Shutter Speeds", "f-Stops" and different film speeds to use according to the lighting situations that you'll be using the camera in. I have a Cannon AE1 35mm SLR from the early 80s that I dearly love. But if you don't have all the automatic features on your camera that my AE1 has you'll NEED to learn all you can about those settings I mentioned in the first sentence of this paragraph. They're involved to learn, and therefore a bit hard to explain here.

Answer 3

No. SLR stands for unmarried Lens Reflex. 35mm is the movie length use in some SLR cameras. in spite of the incontrovertible fact that there are additionally SLR's that take one hundred twenty movie, as nicely as another much less complication-loose length movies. some Minolta lenses will artwork with Minolta and Sony DSLRs.

Answer 4

Dan A, good job, you may have just made Mario the King's day. John B