From: Ken Paul Rosenthal (email suppressed)
Date: Sun Nov 01 2009 - 21:23:48 PST
hi mat,
thanks for your suggestion. but it's 500T Vision 3 stock. so it's super fast already.
in terms of fooling the camera, i've learned to do from what the ambient spill from car headlights taught me. when i was shooting stars at night, i simply passed a pen light over the sensor, which advanced the shutter/frame without exposing the film.
so that's my down and dirty manual advance. i was just wondering if there was a mechanical way.
i'll check out filmshooting.com
ken
>
> Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 18:25:55 +0000
> From: mat fleming <email suppressed>
> Subject: Re: Frame Exposures w/Bauer A 512
>
> Hi Ken,
>
> You might try fooling the camera into thinking the film is faster than
> it is. I'm not sure what film speeds this camera is compatible with
> but if you extend the notch on the cartridge by which the camera reads
> the film speed the camera will expose by a stop or 2 or 3 less, so the
> exposure will be quicker and i suppose although it would be
> 'underexposed' this might be what you need at night.
> There is loads of very detailed information about which cameras will
> read which speeds and on what size of notch represents a given
> filmspeed on the filmshooting.com forum.
>
> Mat
>
>
>
> On 11/1/09, Ken Paul Rosenthal <email suppressed> wrote:
> >
> > I've been shooting time exposures at night with a super 8 Bauer A 512.
> >
> > It has a flip out sensor that automatically controls how long the shutter
> > will stay open on a given frame.
> >
> > However in very low light environments, the shutter/camera takes forever to
> > advance.
> >
> > Does anyone know of a way to manually advance the camera--on the time
> > exposure setting?
> >
> > A sample of how the auto function works can be seen on the one color shot in
> > my trailer at: http://www.crookedbeauty.com
> >
> > Although the camera is pointed up on the overhead electric bus wires, spill
> > from oncoming car headlights will cause the camera to advance quicker, hence
> > a darker image. However when there was little light, the shutter would stay
> > open longer resulting in a brighter image.
> >
> > I'm partial to the brighter image, but sometimes, ie shooting stars at
> > night, there is so little light that it takes 2 minutes for each click. If
> > each click were one frame, that would be okay. But this camera actually
> > takes 18 shots for each frame! So a manual advance, like on a Bolex, would
> > be optimal. Best I can tell, this is not possible on the Bauer A 512.
> >
> > Anyone know otherwise?
> >
> > Thanks, Ken
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