One more question,
Do I need light meter batteries for my Nizo S 560 to record even on the automatic settings?
I have shot about 8 ft of film so far but there are no light meter batteries inside... I'm just wondering if the film will turn out and if I need the batteries to film accurately...
Thank you!
Jeremy
Nizo Light Meter
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Re: Nizo Light Meter
Jeremy.
The exposure batteries are required to vary the iris aperture automatically. I believe that if there are no exposure batteries and the exposure meter and automatic iris setting are not functioning, exposure may still be set manually. I think, therefore, that if what you are doing is setting exposure manually (because the automatic exposure system is not working because there are no batteries to power it) this should be OK. On the other hand if you are using the camera with no exposure system batteries and you are not setting the exposure manually, your film will not be exposed correctly. The manual I have says that the automatic exposure system can be switched off and any desired aperture setting selected by hand. To do this, the exposure control knob must first be turned from "automatic" to "manual". The pointer on the exposure scale in the viewfinder should then respond to rotary movement of the control knob. Of course, to set the exposure manually, you will need either an exposure meter or be jolly good at estimating the the setting you require.
Regards,
Bob
The exposure batteries are required to vary the iris aperture automatically. I believe that if there are no exposure batteries and the exposure meter and automatic iris setting are not functioning, exposure may still be set manually. I think, therefore, that if what you are doing is setting exposure manually (because the automatic exposure system is not working because there are no batteries to power it) this should be OK. On the other hand if you are using the camera with no exposure system batteries and you are not setting the exposure manually, your film will not be exposed correctly. The manual I have says that the automatic exposure system can be switched off and any desired aperture setting selected by hand. To do this, the exposure control knob must first be turned from "automatic" to "manual". The pointer on the exposure scale in the viewfinder should then respond to rotary movement of the control knob. Of course, to set the exposure manually, you will need either an exposure meter or be jolly good at estimating the the setting you require.
Regards,
Bob
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Re: Nizo Light Meter
Thanks Bob!CinemanUK wrote:Jeremy.
The exposure batteries are required to vary the iris aperture automatically. I believe that if there are no exposure batteries and the exposure meter and automatic iris setting are not functioning, exposure may still be set manually. I think, therefore, that if what you are doing is setting exposure manually (because the automatic exposure system is not working because there are no batteries to power it) this should be OK. On the other hand if you are using the camera with no exposure system batteries and you are not setting the exposure manually, your film will not be exposed correctly. The manual I have says that the automatic exposure system can be switched off and any desired aperture setting selected by hand. To do this, the exposure control knob must first be turned from "automatic" to "manual". The pointer on the exposure scale in the viewfinder should then respond to rotary movement of the control knob. Of course, to set the exposure manually, you will need either an exposure meter or be jolly good at estimating the the setting you require.
Regards,
Bob
There are no batteries installed for the light meter and even when I rotate the exposure control to the manual settings the pointer does not move? Could this be due to a lack of batteries?
Thank you
Jeremy
Re: Nizo Light Meter
Hi Jeremy.
The manual seems to imply that one can set the exposure manually, and I had the impression that this could be done either because there was a wish to set it manually or because the electronic exposure system was not working for some reason. So, I thought, that the exposure setting could be managed manually in the sense that when set on manual there was a physical link between the control knob and the indicator in the viewer.
However, I have never been in the situation where there were no batteries installed in the exposure system. So, in light of what you said in your most recent posting, I tried out my 561Macro with and without batteries.
With batteries installed, set on automatic exposure, the system works completely as one would hope. Set on manual, the exposure indicator in the viewfinder is linked to the control knob and so as one turns the knob the indicator moves along the scale one sees in the viewfinder.
Now, with the batteries removed, not surprisingly, set on automatic exposure, the system does not work. The exposure indicator cannot be seen although, of course, the scale is visible. Set on manual, the situation is exactly the same. There is apparently no link between the control knob and the exposure indicator in the viewfinder. This suggests that the indicator is electronically controlled by the control knob, rather than there being some form of physical link as I think is the situation in some other cameras. So the result of my test, in this respect, accords with what you have found.
The conclusion is, therefore, that exposure meter batteries are required whether or not automatic setting is selected.
Now that leads to the question of how is the iris set when there are no batteries? My guess is that it rests wide open, and I say this because the indicator always moves from wide to closed when the system is working automatically and when one runs the charge check on the batteries. If that is correct then when you shot your film with no batteries, it will have been shot with the iris wide open and so, depending on the lighting conditions at the time, you might find that your pictures will have been over-exposed to some degree.
The manual does not make this clear, I have to say.
Regards.
BOB
The manual seems to imply that one can set the exposure manually, and I had the impression that this could be done either because there was a wish to set it manually or because the electronic exposure system was not working for some reason. So, I thought, that the exposure setting could be managed manually in the sense that when set on manual there was a physical link between the control knob and the indicator in the viewer.
However, I have never been in the situation where there were no batteries installed in the exposure system. So, in light of what you said in your most recent posting, I tried out my 561Macro with and without batteries.
With batteries installed, set on automatic exposure, the system works completely as one would hope. Set on manual, the exposure indicator in the viewfinder is linked to the control knob and so as one turns the knob the indicator moves along the scale one sees in the viewfinder.
Now, with the batteries removed, not surprisingly, set on automatic exposure, the system does not work. The exposure indicator cannot be seen although, of course, the scale is visible. Set on manual, the situation is exactly the same. There is apparently no link between the control knob and the exposure indicator in the viewfinder. This suggests that the indicator is electronically controlled by the control knob, rather than there being some form of physical link as I think is the situation in some other cameras. So the result of my test, in this respect, accords with what you have found.
The conclusion is, therefore, that exposure meter batteries are required whether or not automatic setting is selected.
Now that leads to the question of how is the iris set when there are no batteries? My guess is that it rests wide open, and I say this because the indicator always moves from wide to closed when the system is working automatically and when one runs the charge check on the batteries. If that is correct then when you shot your film with no batteries, it will have been shot with the iris wide open and so, depending on the lighting conditions at the time, you might find that your pictures will have been over-exposed to some degree.
The manual does not make this clear, I have to say.
Regards.
BOB