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Hallo all. I'm new here and very grateful to have found this forum.
I've recently started using 8mm again, and brought a refurbished Braun Nizo 801 Macro. As with my previous 35 year old Elmo camera, this has a SUN/BULB switch. I am unclear how and when I should use this with the range of Vision 3 colour negative films from Kodak. I would be extremely grateful if someone could throw some light on what seems to be a rather confusing issue.
So far I have understood this. Back in the 70s, when I used to make films regularly, all super 8mm films were tungsten balanced. If you used Kodakchome 40 to shoot outside, you would set the SUN/BULB switch to SUN. This would then put a Wratten filter on the lens in the camera, to adjust the colour balance for natural light.
I don't know whether the D films that Kodak now make are, like their 70s predecessors, balanced for tungsten so that I would need to set the switch to SUN and thereby introduce the filter, or whether the film is in fact balanced for daylight and that, therefore, I should - counter-intuitively - set the switch to BULB (which would remove the filter).
Kodak's range of T films initially present a lesser problem. If they are balanced for artificial light, I guess under these conditions I should should set the switch to BULB, thereby removing the filter. However, if I were to shoot some footage in daylight, should I then set the switch to SUN (introducing the wratten filter) to correct the colour balance. Or is the film capable of shooting correctly in both artificial and daylight conditions - so that whatever the conditions, I should set the switch to BULB?
These questions are clearly those of a novice technophobe, so, I would be grateful for the forbearance of the other members of the forum. But I really would appreciate some help in resolving these issues.
I've recently started using 8mm again, and brought a refurbished Braun Nizo 801 Macro. As with my previous 35 year old Elmo camera, this has a SUN/BULB switch. I am unclear how and when I should use this with the range of Vision 3 colour negative films from Kodak. I would be extremely grateful if someone could throw some light on what seems to be a rather confusing issue.
So far I have understood this. Back in the 70s, when I used to make films regularly, all super 8mm films were tungsten balanced. If you used Kodakchome 40 to shoot outside, you would set the SUN/BULB switch to SUN. This would then put a Wratten filter on the lens in the camera, to adjust the colour balance for natural light.
I don't know whether the D films that Kodak now make are, like their 70s predecessors, balanced for tungsten so that I would need to set the switch to SUN and thereby introduce the filter, or whether the film is in fact balanced for daylight and that, therefore, I should - counter-intuitively - set the switch to BULB (which would remove the filter).
Kodak's range of T films initially present a lesser problem. If they are balanced for artificial light, I guess under these conditions I should should set the switch to BULB, thereby removing the filter. However, if I were to shoot some footage in daylight, should I then set the switch to SUN (introducing the wratten filter) to correct the colour balance. Or is the film capable of shooting correctly in both artificial and daylight conditions - so that whatever the conditions, I should set the switch to BULB?
These questions are clearly those of a novice technophobe, so, I would be grateful for the forbearance of the other members of the forum. But I really would appreciate some help in resolving these issues.
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