Bill Phelps wrote:
Hello Ryan!
You would have to use the manual setting and set the lens f-stop yourself to the filming conditions. Using the other settings is for the electric eye to function automatically. As long as you can set the exposure manually you should be able to use any film ASA. I actually have a few of these cameras at home and I will take a look at one later and get back to you....I'm not home right now.
Hope that helps!
Bill
thank you so much, you have made my day, I was feeling a bit gutted if the only thing i'd have been able to shoot with it was the slow and dark 7363 film.
Yeah I assumed manual mode was to adjust the Aperture, which got me thinking, well, maybe it could be possible to use any type of film, but I wasn't sure.
I really want to use the black and white Kodak Tri-X standard 8 film which is rated at 200 ASA, to capture a WWII reenactment in the next couple of months. I think this film actually starts off life as standard 16mm film, that the company I buy from in the UK then adapts to work as double 8.
I guess the main question is now, what would ideal Aperture settings be with Tri-X film ha, ha.
Cloudy/Rainny/Overcast day
Bright Sunny daythink i'm gonna be best to purchase a light meter
I guess I don't have to worry about anything else weatherise. It usually just ends up raining most of the time in the UK anyway.
thanks again,
Ryan