Actual Electric Eye Photography - Canon Motor Zoom 8 EEE Instruction Manual

ACTUAL ELECTRIC EYE PHOTOGRAPHY
1. Turn viewfinder eyepiece to adjust to photogropher 's vIsion.
2. Adjustment is made when split-image line in viewfinder appears clear.
3 . Press
motorized zoom
lever at T for telephoto and W for wide angle pictures.
a . Zoom range is from 10mm to 40mm.
b . Photography is possible while zooming .
c. Simultaneous zooming and filming will not damage the zoom or film advance motors.
4. Turn
focusing ring
to align split image on the rangefinder.
a . Image of subject must be aligned vertically .
b . Feet and metric scales on the ring give approximate distance of image
In
focus.
5.
Circle inside of the viewfinder must appear blue for
EE
photography.
6.
7.
a .
EE
photography is impossible if circle shows red color.
b. Red is warning of inadequate or excessive light for film in use.
c. If light is obviously inadequate, reduce frame speed, but refrain from taking if red dot will not
change to blue.
d . If light is excessive , Neutral Density Filters must be used to reduce the amount of light entering
The
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c.
The
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through the lens. (see page 32 )
viewfinder is a single lens reflex type, in which you see your subject through the taking lens.
This means there are no parallax problems and you take what you see.
This lens-viewfinder system is composed of 24 optically correct lens elements, plus 3 mirrors.
Since the half -mirror which deflects the image to your viewfinder is located in front of the shut-
ter system and lens iris there are no flickers , and maximum light is obtained no matter how
small your apErture setting .
shutter safety lock
lever is open when in a horizontal position .
The shutter is locked in the down posi tion .
Continuous run
is possible if the shutter release button is first depressed and then the safety
lock lever is turned down.
The fi lm wil l continue to advance automatically until th e lock lever is brought back to a horizontal
position.
8.
Single frame photography is possible by pushing the shutter release button up .
9.
Single frame pictures can also be taken by screwing a cable release into the safety lock socket.
10. A cine self timer can also be inserted if the photographer wishes to photograph himself.
1 1. Length of a scene
a. This is a relative matter and usually depends on the photographer plus the subject being pho-
tographed.
b. Basically no scene should be shorter than five seconds .
c.
This need not be longer than 20 seconds at the most.
d . The longer the exposures scene the fewer the scenes per
50
feet of roll.
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