Filmshooting

These various and complicated problems are the reason why most negative users expose their film manually, using the internal exposure meter only as a guide.

Let me make sure I am understanding you correctly....

The only reason to worry about the notch is if you are shooting on Auto? If you are ...

Though the 3 or 4 inch difference won't matter that much on 8mm, you should always measure from the film plane. This is noted on the side of any camera by a circle with a vertical line through it.

Also note the measurements on the lens...Make sure if you measure in feet, you don't set to meters ...

Thanks for the help...

I think it was more the sound she was hearing, and not about the metering, but it is good to know!!!

Thanks again, and I'll be back....

We have the original manuals for the AZ814, but I didn't see anything in it...It looked more like the "basic" everyman's manual rather than the "advanced" let's-go-make-movies manual so it is a little lacking...

They are using an external light meter with the correct settings...

This is the first semester we have used these cameras for the students. Is there some internal settings which are changing the f-stops on the camera based on the speed of the film? We have told them to set the f-stop based on the ...

I have a student who is wanting to use 500 in our AZ814...I haven't been able to find anything in the literature that says she can't. When we ran a cartridge through, it sounded really odd...

Normal?