Hi,
I'am new here and it's great to see this camera being talked about. I've got two Nalcoms and have been always curious what others think of it. I used one of the Nalcoms in Egypt last year shooting on Ektachrome 100D and (besides all the great features the camera has) I think the built-in light meter is not the best - after a test roll I better widened cassettes' film speed notch to make the camera read the film as 160D(?) (none of the film speed pins in the camera gets pushed) as the film seemed overexposed with original notch. Also the light meter is VERY center oriented and if you have something very bright or very dark in the center of the scene the f-stop reading will be quite different, the camera cannot measure average light of the scene. I use external light meter mounted on the camera to compare center/average light conditions and usually use camera's manual f-stop control anyway.
AND AT LAST the 180° shutter stated here and there on the web seems to be total nonsense - with 180° shutter and shutter speed of 1/36s at 18 fps the f-stop should be much higher than it's set by the camera... It's more like the camera's shutter speed at 18 fps is around 1/125s --- or something inside the camera is not normal. And both my Nalcoms measure light the same and even my Carena Zoomex 7710 IM that is somehow a secret twin of Nalcom has the same f-stop reading so it's probably a "feature of the camera"? I wish someone would explain this to me, please...?
