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I'm looking for anyone who has information on this specific model, or who has knowledge of the components which I suppose should probably have been reused across the Chinon line. I was recently gifted this camera and I'm keen to understand as much as I can about it, to hopefully replace some parts but also to better shoot some tapes on it. There are two things I'm mainly curious about: 1) It has a selector to switch between auto and manual, but no controls to actually manipulate exposure with, that I can see anyway... It also simply says in the manual that exposure is selected automatically and refuses to elaborate! 2) The viewfinder is really interesting, what I originally thought was a missing part seems to in-fact be the default rubber eye (rest?) which is tiny with the internal diameter at just 11mm and the external diameter at 22mm. I thought it had perhaps originally come with a larger eye cup which slid over the attached one but all the promotional images and the front of the manual don't reflect that. I want to identify a replacement eye cup or some kid of attachment which would make looking through the viewfinder more comfortable, but also I want to understand how the assembly works, it appears to be a lens inside a long tube that screws into the camera body, with threading that runs the entire length of it, with a small rubber cup on the end that protrudes. This small rubber cup (which you should be able to see if you look at an image of the camera online) appears to have been attached but I think due to age the rubber has degraded and while it does slip on to the tube part, nothing is holding it in place. If anyone has experience with this camera (or I suppose any of the other Chinon Dart line as I would assume there would be similarities), I'd love to learn more about it, I don't have the camera with me at the moment but I'll take some photos of the parts and upload them when I get a chance. Thanks!

Hi everyone, I recently got a CHINON 877 MACRO. If you have its instruction manual along with illustrated figures, I'd be glad if you could scan it at 300dpi color. Sincere thanks for your effort and time!

Currently looking for a Super 8 camera with a very small form factor, the Chinon Pocket 8 should be the right one. It originally was possible to buy this camera with a set of additional lenses, including an anamorphic adapter, which is very intriguing to me. The camera was also sold under the names of "Revue", "Bauer" and "Porst". I've attached an image of the set, taken from Super8wiki. Thanks!

Hello, So in this camera is the internal meter system, whereas if the meter is inbetween the "red" marks on either end it is good to shoot - basically. Now everything seems to work (I've shot 3 200 ASA Reversal rolls outside, and all are mostly dark) so it seems the meter system is not working. Now I have an external meter too, and the light is right so my question is if the light meter is not working in the Chinon, does that affect how much light it's getting to the film as well? It is a "TTL" meter system that is automatically setting the F-Stops with how much ambient light there is, meaning I cannot set the F-stops manually. If this is the case does anyone know what to do about this besides getting a different camera with manual F-Stop adjustment? Thanks for any help!!

For sale a Chinon Pacific 200/12XL Super 8 sound film camera. A very nice camera in good working condition. Features include: Silent and sound super 8 cartridges 50 ft and 200 ft Filming speeds: 18, 24, 25 fps, slow motion (36 fps), single frame Intervalometer timer 1 to 60 second intervals In camera fades and dissolves 72 frames Auto and manual exposure and zoom 12X zoom lens 67mm filter size 6 - AA batteries Also comes with metal lens cap, 2 microphones, UV filter and unused 200' ft Kodachrome film cartridge sealed in foil pouch. Missing rubber eye piece. Asking $95.00 US plus shipping