Help! Over-grainy photos?!

[cherieamour]

I need help, recently shot some film with my dad's old SLR and it turned out to be very grainy for all photos - daylight or indoor.

The film used was Kodak Gold 200 ASA, here's a photo:

The slr is in working condition although there's some fungus - there's some fungus in the lens too. Any suggestions if the fungus could have caused this to occur although I highly doubt so.

Another possible reason could be that the camera's meter was inaccurate and underexposed the film... But I don't really know.

Could anyone help please?

Thanks!

 

[tan131]

u under exposed the film by quite a bit..

fungus in a worst case.. would onli cause the picture to be soft.. kind of like a free soft filter

in your case, I would its underexposure.. check the meter with a light meter of with another camera

 

[waileong]

It's underexposed.

Your meter may be off, but more likely your camera needs a cla.

Fungus does not cause grain, only loss of contrast.

 

[catchlights]

Underexposed, you can tell it from the neg, if it is very "thin", the images are very faintly recorded on the neg.

btw, for this shot is impossible to shoot handheld speed with ISO 200 film

anyway, shooting film you have to rely on camera meter, unless you are very good in metering with your eye, can not anyhow humtum like a DSLR, as if you able to see the result on LCD.

 

[cherieamour]

Thanks all for the replies, I'll send it for CLA, camera meter must be off