Michael Carter Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 Automatic exposure is missing on all my 16mm cameras and lenses. The Bolex zooms with it never seem to work. Does someone fix them? Is auto exposure even used in 16mm? Scoopic? Can they work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Tyler Purcell Posted December 25, 2018 Premium Member Share Posted December 25, 2018 Why would you want automatic exposure? Better to have a light meter and simply get a number then dial it into the lens manually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean-Louis Seguin Posted December 25, 2018 Share Posted December 25, 2018 This is from memory only. Cameras with auto-exposure: All Scoopics Some Beaulieu R16 models. Some Arriflex 16SR models with special lenses. Probably the Beaulieu News 16 (not 100% sure). There may be others as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Carter Posted December 25, 2018 Author Share Posted December 25, 2018 (edited) Tyler, shooting manually with 7363 outdoors is difficult when cloud cover is variable, which is most of the time. The slightest change in brightness shows. The film has no latitude. It'd be great not to worry about that. Yes, scoopic, the Filmphotography guy has some videos using one. Just saw it. Edited December 25, 2018 by Michael Carter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Simon Wyss Posted December 26, 2018 Premium Member Share Posted December 26, 2018 Auto-exposure 16mm film motion picture cameras are (Eumig C 16, semiautomatic with selenium cell, 1956) Bell & Howell 200 Electric Eye, 1956 Bell & Howell 240 EE, 1957 Paillard-Bolex H-16 with Kern-Paillard Vario-Switar 86 EE, 1964 (Pathé WEBO M 16 Behind-The-Lens, semiautomatic, 1964) Canon Scoopic, 1966 Bolex 16 Pro, 1966 Beaulieu R 16 Automatic, 1968 Arriflex 16 BL, Through-The-Lens meter, 1970 Beaulieu News 16, 1973 Mitchell Sportster 164, 1974 Arriflex 16 SR, TTL meter, 1975 Cinema Products R 16, TTL meter, 1975 Arriflex 16 Standard with TTL meter, 1976 Cinema Products GSMO, 1981 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Carter Posted December 27, 2018 Author Share Posted December 27, 2018 Thank you both for those lists. Some are on eBay. One seller of a 79 dollar auto eye 16mm camera does not know if the exposure part works, just the motor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Will Montgomery Posted January 11, 2019 Premium Member Share Posted January 11, 2019 All Scoopics have autoexposure...and it does a fairly decent job. You can of course manually set exposure as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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