I have an old Chinon 722 Automatic 8mm however I do not know what type of film cartridge to use. Can someone point me in the right direction.
Would it use a Kodac 50D/7203?
http://filmforevermpe.com/products/koda ... -cartridge
Thanks,
Britt
Chinon 722 cartridge type?
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Re: Chinon 722 cartridge type?
Welcome to the forum, Britt.
In theory, any Super 8 cartridge (including the one you were looking at) should fit your camera. However, I think the Chinon 722 has only automatic exposure. Is this still working? If it isn't, well, it might be easiest to go for a different camera (although you could try my method of shooting with a Chinon 300 with broken auto-exposure: take a reading with an external light meter, then decide whether or not to put an ND filter in front of the camera, and shoot - not exactly the best results, but it did produce some recognisable pictures). If the auto-exposure is still working, there's a fair chance that the auto-exposure will be set to the film stocks that used to be around in the 1970s, which makes the camera a bit tricky to use with today's film stocks. Maybe someone else knows a bit more about this camera and can enlighten us on this topic?
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In theory, any Super 8 cartridge (including the one you were looking at) should fit your camera. However, I think the Chinon 722 has only automatic exposure. Is this still working? If it isn't, well, it might be easiest to go for a different camera (although you could try my method of shooting with a Chinon 300 with broken auto-exposure: take a reading with an external light meter, then decide whether or not to put an ND filter in front of the camera, and shoot - not exactly the best results, but it did produce some recognisable pictures). If the auto-exposure is still working, there's a fair chance that the auto-exposure will be set to the film stocks that used to be around in the 1970s, which makes the camera a bit tricky to use with today's film stocks. Maybe someone else knows a bit more about this camera and can enlighten us on this topic?
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Re: Chinon 722 cartridge type?
from looking up online, the filmspeeds are as follows:
For Daylight filmstocks: 25 and 100 (50D would either be overexposed or underexposed by one stop, which would still yield a usable image, or you could push or pull process by one stop with the lab)
For Tungsten filmstocks: 40 and 160 (Which means that 200T should yield a good result without any problems)
this is all dependent upon whether the camera's automatic control is still functioning, however.
For Daylight filmstocks: 25 and 100 (50D would either be overexposed or underexposed by one stop, which would still yield a usable image, or you could push or pull process by one stop with the lab)
For Tungsten filmstocks: 40 and 160 (Which means that 200T should yield a good result without any problems)
this is all dependent upon whether the camera's automatic control is still functioning, however.