Zeiss Ikon Moviflex S8 + 100D ?

Post by **Ukimikko** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 11:33 am

Is Wittnerchrome 100D out of the question with this camera? The manual says it accepts daylight films up to 19 DIN (EI64) and artificial light up to 21 DIN (EI100). Since 100D is a daylight film, I will not be able to use it with my great Zeiss camera? Any tricks that can solve the problem?
How about the other zeiss Ikon cameras than S8?
It would be more than nice to try 100D.

Post by **david** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 1:03 pm

I've got the same camera but I don't know if the internal meter will expose it properly, anyway I always use an external meter so I don't really care. I shot with all films from k40 to 500t (except 100d, but it doesn't really matter) and never had any problem this way. Considering you're probably going to shoot outside in sunny weather, you could even do some eye metering, trusting the very reliable sunny16 rule.
david

Post by **Ukimikko** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 2:29 pm

david wrote:I've got the same camera but I don't know if the internal meter will expose it properly, anyway I always use an external meter so I don't really care. I shot with all films from k40 to 500t (except 100d, but it doesn't really matter) and never had any problem this way. Considering you're probably going to shoot outside in sunny weather, you could even do some eye metering, trusting the very reliable sunny16 rule.
david

IsnÃ‚Â´t it so that if the internal meter reads the cartridge wrong, the exposure is then off no matter what your external light meter says? It is also impossible to adjust the shutter speed in Moviflex S8.
I donÃ‚Â´t have enough experience to calculate all this or have knowledge to find a solution if there is any?

Post by **david** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 3:37 pm

right, you can't change shutter speed and it looks like there's auto exposure only, but if you attach the cable release you can set the iris manually. the shutter speed is around 1/50 so if you're shooting in the sun the iris should be set to f22

Post by **Ukimikko** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 9:44 pm

Thanks! You are probably right I might try it. Anyway my habit of using the camera is very instantaneous, I just shoot it and do not want to worry more about it -let the autoexposure do the thing kind of way..
It seems that 100D is not the stock to use for me.. what is it about the wrong notching?

Post by **Rick Palidwor** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 2:43 am

Ukimikko wrote:Thanks! You are probably right I might try it. Anyway my habit of using the camera is very instantaneous, I just shoot it and do not want to worry more about it -let the autoexposure do the thing kind of way..
It seems that 100D is not the stock to use for me.. what is it about the wrong notching?

There is no reason not to use this stock, you just need to know what the camera thinks it is and then manually compensate. Take a cartridge of something you know the camera will read - all cameras could read 40 or 160 - take a reading with the auto meter. Now put in the 100 and look at the same frame and note what it says. Since you can calculate what it should be, compared to the 40 or 160, whichever you chose, you know how far the auto meter is misreading, and then compensate accordingly. It's worth keeping a dead cartridge of k40 around solely for this purpose.

If you want to shoot auto only, then it is recommended you shoot stocks the meter can read. But auto-only is so limiting, you are bound to shoot manually at some point.

Rick