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Posted by Bill Proctor (Member # 6427) on July 31, 2018, 07:40 PM:

[ July 31, 2018, 08:43 PM: Message edited by: Bill Proctor ]

Posted by Bill Brandenstein (Member # 892) on July 31, 2018, 08:46 PM:

EDIT: Bill has deleted the original question, which concerned how to correctly set the ASA setting on Beaulieu 6008-series cameras for 50D film.

My original reply:

I've never used a Beaulieu camera, Bill, but what you said sounds backwards: when you'd choose to shoot daylight with K40, which was a tungsten-balanced film, you'd tell the camera such and it would insert the yellow filter, which reduces the light by 2/3rds stop. Hence it was labelled 25 ASA in that mode.

Somewhere on that camera should be a control for indoor/outdoor lighting. Meanwhile, it should also read the "daylight" notch in the front of the cartridge and automatically defeat the filter when you insert that cartridge.

Seems like some experimentation is in order to determine how the camera reads the light situation. Hopefully someone who actually knows what they're doing will come along! However, my first guess is you'd park it a little north of the "40" setting and call it 50. Otherwise, if it's reading with the 2/3 stop difference, you'd set it to 80. But that would seem like a stupid way to do it. Should be directly 50.

Anyone have a manual for this?

[ July 31, 2018, 10:03 PM: Message edited by: Bill Brandenstein ]

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