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SOUND MOVIE CAMERA
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Electric eye battery
compartment
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28.
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(also used for battery
booster pack)
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cover
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TESTING BATTERIES
Depress tester button marked
"Exp." ("A" in
Fig. 5 ) to test
electric eye battery.
Note: Electric-eye battery tester
operates only when motor bat-
teries are installed.
Depress tester button marked
"Mot." ("B" in Fig. 5
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motor batteries. If the batteries
are good, depressing either button
will turn on a green light in the
battery tester window ("C" in
Fig. 5 ). If the window remains
dark while a button is held
depressed, the battery(ies) indi-
cated by that button must be
replaced. Rechargeable motor
batteries may be recharged ac-
cording to instructions supplied
'with accessory battery recharger.
Test batteries again after
recharging.
LENS CAP
To remove:
Depress protruding tabs simul-
taneously and pull cap away from
lens.
To attach:
Depress protruding tabs, press
cap against front opening of lens
barrel and release tabs.
LOADING THE CAMERA
Pull back latch and swing open
fil
m compartment cover
( Fig. 6
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Insert Super 8 sound movie film
cartridge, label side up, film in
smaller opening toward lens. The
wider notch in the cartridge near
the label must be
under
the car-
tridge-locking pin (
Fig. 7 ). Press
down the rear corners of the
cartridge until it clicks into
place.
Close cover firmly.
As the camera is loaded, the
cartridge automatically sets the
correct film speed for exposure
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100/160 daylight/tungsten ASA
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m speed combination, or the
universal (type G) ASA 160 film.
The camera also accepts regular
(silent) Super 8 film cartridges
having the same ASA speeds
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mportant: While handling
cartridge, avoid touching the
film. Moving film in either
aperture may cause the car-
tridge to jam, making it
unusable.
As the footage indi-
cator will continue to operate even
when the film is jammed, make
sure that the film advances prop-
erly by observing the "Film Move-
ment Indicator" described below.
*When silent cartridges are used, the
camera will run slightly faster, at approxi-
mately 20 frames-per-second.
FILM MOVEMENT INDICATOR
A fast or slow flickering in the
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m movement indicator above
the viewfinder image (shown in
Fig. 8)
indicates that the film is
advancing properly. If the flicker-
ing does not start, or stops before
the end of the film is reached, the
cartridge may be defective and
should be replaced.
FOOTAGE INDICATOR
The needle in the footage indi-
cator shows how many feet
(yellow figures) or meters (white
figures) of film have been ex-
posed. All the film in the car-
tridge has been exposed when
the needle reaches 50 (feet) and
15 (meters).
FILM END SIGNAL
When almost all the film in the
cartridge has been used, a red
signal appears at the top of the
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m movement indicator in the
viewfinder (shown in Fig. 8).
The
red area extends gradually. All
the film has been exposed when
the entire circle is covered and
the film advance indicator stops
flickering.
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UNLOADING EXPOSED FILM
When all the film has been
exposed, open the film compart-
ment cover.
Depress all the way red "Eject"
button (shown in Fig.
9 ) and lift
out cartridge. The word
"EXPOSED" now appears on the
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HAVE THE FILM PROCESSED
WITHOUT DELAY
If a partially-exposed cartridge is
removed from the camera, some
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footage indicator returns to zero.
LOCKING THE TRIGGER
RELEASE
The trigger release can be locked
in two positions:
1. To prevent accidental opera-
tion of the camera, lock trigger
by pushing it up, in the direction
of the arrow ( Fig. 10
).
2. To get into the scene, place
camera on a tripod, aim it at the
scene, focus, turn the light-stop
knob to the left*
( Fig. 11
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trigger release, then push it up
to lock it. The camera will keep
running until the trigger release
is unlocked.
USING THE VIEWFINDER
The bright, through-the-lens re-
flex viewfinder shows each scene
as it will appear projected on the
screen.* The rubber shield on the
viewfinder eyepiece may be turned
to fit either eye.
To adjust the viewfinder to your
eye:
1.
Zoom lens to the 60mm tele-
photo position by depressing
front power-zoom switch, marked
"Tele".
2. Align the ∞(infinity) symbol on
the focusing ring distance scale
with the reference line on top of
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When camera is operated in the remote mode, either
with microphone switch or accessory remote control,
be sure to
unlock trigger release BEFORE removing film cartridge.
*The light-stop knob closes the viewfinder
to prevent light from entering the optical
system from the rear. To open the view-
finder, turn the light-stop knob to the right.
"If the view is blocked, turn the light-stop
knob to the right.
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the lens barrel
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then look
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at least 500 feet away.
3.
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then counterclockwise, until
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FOCUSING
Zoom lens to telephoto position
(align figure 60 on zoom ring with
reference line). Turn focusing ring
until subject's image appears
sharp on milcroprism focusing
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Fig. 14 ). If the
microprism area is blurred (as in
Fig. 15
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will be blurred, also.
The distance scale may also be
used for focusing. Line up with
the reference line the figure on
the focusing ring that corresponds
with the camera-to-subject dis-
tance in feet.
For example, if the camera-to-
subject distance is 5 feet, then
the figure 5 is lined up with the
reference line ( Fig. 16
).
USING THE ZOOM LENS
The zoom lens does the work of
several separate lenses. It has an
8 to 1 focal length range and is
continuously adjustable from the
7.5mm wide-angle setting to the
60mm telephoto setting.
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lens is in the long telephoto posi-
tion (40 to 60mm), the slightest
camera motion will result in a
jumpy screen image. To keep the
camera steady when the lens is
used in the 40 to 60mm telephoto
range, use a tripod, where feas-
ible, or steady camera by placing
elbows on a firm support.
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