Ektachrome 64T Questions

[Alex]

There are three main types of Super-8 film nowadays, Color Negative, Color Reversal, and Black & White Reversal.

Among these three types of film are several different ASA ratings of film.

Black and White reversal offers Plus X (a virtually grainless looking film stock) and Tri-X, it's grainier cousin.

Color Reversal consists of Ektachrome 64T (balanced for tungsten light) from Kodak, and Fuji Velvia 50 available through a few film loading facilities, including Spectra Film & Video. Kodak may soon release Ektachrome 100D (for daylight)

All of the above stocks can be projected after they have been processed.

Then there are color negative stocks. These stocks include Kodak 500T and 200T and maybe soon will include Kodak 50D. These negative stocks require processing AND transfer to video before they can be edited or properly viewed.

Your Chinon 12 SMR is most likely one of those 12-1 zoom lenses which are always the top of the line camera for that particular camera. The more zoom a camera has the more "features" and options on the camera as well.

As a general rule, when shooting in bright daylight at 24 frames per second, your f-stop reading will be between f-16 to f-8. If you are in that range then you should get an image.

However as soon as you go into shadowy areas, your reading could drop down to 2.8-4.0.

I hope that helps get you started but ask away if you have more questions.

[Andrew Kempees]

Greetings, Has anybody used this new film ? My questions are simple, What needs to be done with the camera to use the automatic light meter ? I have a Chinon 12SMR & Chinon 877. Also when the film comes back, can you project it ? Or does it need to go through another step ?