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Topic: Camera lightning
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Bart Smith
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 228
From: Hackney, London
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted January 12, 2010 03:19 AM
Winbert,
Nearly all colour Super 8 film cartridges made by 'major' manufacturers are/were tungsten balanced, including 64T and K40. There are exceptions to this, notably the long discontinued Ektachrome type G.
The only daylight balanced stocks that are manufactured these days are by relatively small scale operations such as Spectra and Wittner, both of whom load Kodak perforated Ektachrome 100D into Super 8 cartridges.
There is also Pro8mm, who in addition to loading 100D into cartridges as above also load various daylight and various tungsten balanced negative stocks.
Super 8 cameras were designed on the basis that you would be loading tungsten balanced film into them, hence the anomalous/counter-intuitive situation where when filming with a daylight balanced cart you need to make sure that the camera is set to tungsten.
The 'normal' state of a Super 8 camera is to have an 85 filter in the optical path, this corrects the light so that it becomes tungsten balanced.
Selecting tungsten on a Super 8 camera removes the 85 filter from the optical path.
Most (but not all) cameras will automatically switch out the 85 filter (regardless of how the switch is set) when you place a daylight cart in them, as there will be no filter notch, and the cart will press a small switch inside the film chamber which will be mechanically coupled to the 85 filter, pushing it out of the optical path.
-------------------- www.bluecinetech.co.uk
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