Cosina cameras

[technicolour]

Following on from my post about the Canon cameras (for which the advert has now dissapeared),anyone know anything about Cosina cameras or if they are any good?

Super 8mm suggested I get something a bit more advanced and I'm going to see a CM 8000 with a 8 X power zoom. I'd be grateful if anyone knows about Cosina cameras or indeed if they own any.

Thanks

[technicolour]

Correction, its a MS 8000 [img]redface.gif[/img]

[Alex]

I found this link http://www.city-net.com/~fodder/cosina/s8cam.html

But then I checked another site called
"the list" http://www.kolumbus.fi/puistot/list.htm

Here is the info they list...

Cosina

MS-8000

Year: 77-78

Lens: 1,7 / 8 - 64 mm

Macro focusing

Microprism focusing

Manual / Auto Zoom

Manual / Auto Exposure

Backlight Control

Fades

Remote control socket

Made in Japan

Original price in England (in the year of introduction): ?213

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I have never seen a Cosina so I can't help you with anymore info on the camera. It does appear to have an 8-1 zoom lens, and it does appear to have manual exposure. I can't tell what filming speeds the camera has.

[technicolour]

Cheers for the info,

Seems to fit the bill nicely, The guy selling it said its got two tripod mounting positions, one at the end of the pistol grip and the other at the back of the body. This was important to me along with a remote control, as I could operate it from a tripod easily. I have a chinon 256SXL with a pistol grip at the base of the grip, and it weighing in at a good 1.5KG makes not the most stable set up!

Oh well, Going to see it tomorrow and if its got what I want and it works ok I guess i'll get it. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[jukkasil]

I had both Cosina 7410 and 7610 and they looked very nice cameras (single frame, 9, 18, 24 and 54 fps f1,7/7-70mm lens, variable time lapse etc.), but I had problems to get their exposure meters work (you know these mercury/mallory-batteries etc.), so I sold them to one guy here in Finland.

Anyway here is one example shot with Carena-camera (made by Cosina) with 16:9 modified film gate I transfer with my Workprinter to one of my client:

http://www.sorb-i-tol.com/169test.mpg

You can notice the image quality of this camera. Don't care about jittering, it's cause of these bad Kodak cartridges

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ April 09, 2003 01:31 AM: Message edited by: jukkasil ]</font>

[Alex]

I a bit confused. Did the exposure meter not work because you could not get replacement batteries?

[jukkasil]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size=2 face="verdana, sans-serif">quote:</font><table border="0" width="90%" bgcolor="#333333" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0"><tr><td width="100%"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#FF9900"><tr><td width="100%" bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><font size=2 face="verdana, sans-serif">Originally posted by Super-8mm:
I a bit confused. Did the exposure meter not work because you could not get replacement batteries?</font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE>

I tried Wein's batteries and also my K-3 battery adapter etc. but they didn't work. And you cannot use the manual exposure without that exposure battery.

[Alex]

If Technicolour is curious as to what type of battery is operating his exposure meter, it might be of great value to the forum if he checks it out and tells us!

Jukkasi, how old can a battery be and still run the exposure meter on a Cosina? What exactly is the battery type?

[jukkasil]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size=2 face="verdana, sans-serif">quote:</font><table border="0" width="90%" bgcolor="#333333" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0"><tr><td width="100%"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#FF9900"><tr><td width="100%" bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><font size=2 face="verdana, sans-serif">Originally posted by Super-8mm:
If Technicolour is curious as to what type of battery is operating his exposure meter, it might be of great value to the forum if he checks it out and tells us!

Jukkasi, how old can a battery be and still run the exposure meter on a Cosina? What exactly is the battery type?</font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE>

About that MS-8000-model, I think it hasn't separated battery for exposure meter (Cosina used these one in their 70-76 models), so that isn't problem with Technicolour's camera.

I don't remember that battery code (I'll check it at home), but they normally are PX-... named batteries normally used in standard 8 (1960-95)and super 8 (1965-76) cameras. I also own one Minolta zoom 8 (2x8) camera need same kind of battery (don't work with Wein one either), but I still can use it with external exposure meter, cause manual exposure of camera doesn't need any battery at all (= I can change the aperture manually).

[Alex]

I can hear Technicolour breathe a sigh of relief.
Does that mean that the Cosina Cameras that need the exposure battery that cannot be found are unuseable?

Will the manual exposure work, or I think you said it wouldn't work either in manual or auto mode.

Maybe someone will suggest a workaround.