XL SUPER 8 SOUND CAMERA
Immediately feel at home
For the man who designs the world's most sophisticated Super 8 cameras not according to his own iudgement but to that of professionals and of the specialized press of numerous coun tries - it was a fascinating challenge to turn to another, iust as important. as pect of film -making: bringing quality sound -filming within the reach of most amateurs. Marcel Beaulieu has tried tastep into the .>hoes of those who film for the pleasureof it, and are in constantquest of quality without having ally wish to become cine-camera pros or recording technicians. He has attempted to smooth out all the practical difficul ties encountered by amateurs, more particularly when beginners, in faith fully recording both picture and sound. The basic idea behind the design llnd construction of every detail of the BEAULIEU 1008 XL sound cine-came ra is that a camera's primary purpose is to allow any amateur, even if a com plete llovice,tomake successful films. immediately and without difficulty. 1 - Accessory shoe 2 - Film companment door 3 - Zoom len s 4 - Handgrip control button 5 - Trigger 6 - Power supply switch 7 - Handgrip 8 - Battery compan ment cover
9 - Focusing ring 10 - Zooming/macro ring 11 - Zoom/macro lever 12 - Powered zoom button [7 ---> 45 1 13 - Powered zoom button f45 -. 71 14 - Zooming speed switch 15 - Fade control button 16 - Power test indicator
with your cine--camera
First contacts are all-important. Your camera should at once feel like an extension of yourself.
The hand The hand is quite relaxed. T he ca mera grip rests on the palm, between thumb and forefinger. It poims forward at an angle calculated to give you the stea足 diest hold, with no trace of fatigue. T he BEAULIEU 1008 XL is compact, and weighs on ly 1,775 kg (3 lbs 15 ozl _
The eye
17 - Power tCSt button 18 - Counter scale 19 - Vic v.tfinder adjustment ring 20 - Filming speed control
21 - Backlight control button 22 - Viewfinder shutter 23 - Cue light 24 - Trigger locking button
25 - Mike/line input socket 26 - Sound level switch 27 - Flash synch ronization socket 28 - Earphone socket 29 - Remote control socket 30 - External power socket 3 1 - Viewfinder cup
The eye chooses the pictures, fram es them and is kept permanentl y inform足 ed. T he wide viewfinder-indicator tells you whether thc picture is in foc us, whethcr exposure is correct, whether your are fil mi ng in the automatic or the manual mode, and whether the camera isOK for sound . And it warns you when you only have enough film for20 more seconds' filming.
T he ear At all times, the ear can monitor the sound recorded by the camera, by means of an earphone.
Take fine pictures,at once
Pin-point focus The first condition for a film to be good is that t he pictu res should be sharp. For
the 1008 XL, Marcel Beaulieu has chosen a so-called "dichroic" focusing system, with which mistakes are practically im possible. You aim at your sub ject. If it has blue and orange fringes round it, yOllC picture is out of focu s. All you have to do is to rotate the focu sing ri ng
Steady pictures until the fringes disa ppear. Now you are cerrain to be in perfect focus - the m ore so that your BEA U LiEU l008 XL's zoom len s is a high-precision onc made up of 16 optical elements. It guarantees perfect pin-point sharpness, at any fo cal, length, from infinity to the macro setting.
There is nothing more unbearable, when projecting a film, than pictures t hat jump about incessantly becau se of over-e nthusiast ic use of zoomi ng. It shou ld be remembered that, in the telephoto setting, a zoom lens such as that of the BEAULIEU lO08 XL is as powerful as a 35 mm camera 280·mm telephoto lens. This is as much as can be managed with hand filmi ng. At any greater focal length, the slightest ca me· ra sha ke would interfere with picture sh arpness and steadiness. And you can not always {and do not always want toJ film with a tripod.
This is why Marcel Beaulieu has chosen fo r the 1008 XL a 7-45 mm zoom lens. Its 6 1/2 X amplitude offers all the zoom· ing possibilities you could wish for with out any ri sk of "shake". For yet greater s:lfety, the BEAULIEU 1008 XL's zoom is electri c, with two pe rfectly conStant speeds.
Well-rendered colours W hen proj ecting, it may happen sud· denly, in the middle of a sequence, t he pictures either pale or Qecome tOO d:lrk. You certa inly want to avoid such faults (due to incorrect exposure) in your own films. And it can not happen to you with your BEAULIEU 1008 XL. Its dia phragm automatica lly corrects the ex posure. You ca n do a pann ing shot from a shady area to one in bright sunshine, or vice versa; the diaphragm will increase or decrease the aperture, just as the eye would, so that your pictures remain perfectly ex posed throughout.
Film all you want to film, at once
Slow down or speed up movemenrs by rotating a knob You might want to analyse a moveme nt - for instance, a gymnaSt going through his exercises - in order to highlight the beauty of each gesture. So you will film at 36 fps slow moti on . All you have todo is to rotate the filming-speed ring.
If on the contrary you wish to accele rate a character's steps to achieve a comic effect like those of the old silent movies, it is no less easy to set to accelerated motion with 9 fps. The BEAULlEU 1008 XL has 5 filming speeds: framc-by-framc, 9, 18,24 and 36 fps.
IIBlowing-up" small objects, without auxiliary gadgers
Get close up to a distant subject, without moving
Shoot low-light scenes without auxiliary lighting When film ing with sound, you ohen film indoors. To keep a souvenir of a fami ly reunion, or to captu re children at play. But you ha ve not necessarily followed a lighting-specialist's coursc, and wou ld like to film with w hatever light is ava ilable. And you cando it with your BEAULIEU IOO8 XL, fo r 3 reasons: The lens a pcnure is a very wide on e: f/ 1.2. It is com mon knowledge th at th e wide r th e a penurc, thc less the a mount of light requircd. T hc optical ele ments arc so mountcd th :n light loss through the lens, marc particularly round the edges, is minimized . Th e cell's sensiti vity range has bec n exte nded from 25 to 400 A$A in order to all ow the use of any film at present ava ilable, including Ek tachrome G , wh ich is suita ble for any form of lighting.
You might be afraid to sca re away birds you have spotted in their nest , To bring them into a close-u p shot, all you have to do is to press the electric zoom ing control until you ha ve the requi red framing. Two zooming speeds are a va il able.
You may have been told that, for e x tre mely close-up work, you had to add accessories to your lens. T his is quite un necessary on the BEAULIEU 1008 XL , All you need todois to lift the zoom control lever, and you can film at any dis tance be tween 5 feetandrightupagamst the from of the lens. You can fill the whole screen with a butterfly's wing. And focusing is as simple as at any other distance.
Master sound recording, at once
Many an amateur gets a shock when he views his first sou nd film. The rustle of a sheet of paper sounds like a thunde r storm, the whispering wind like the wail of a siren, From your very first film, MarcelBeaulieu wants to help you side-step th e pitfalls of sound recording, so that whe n pro jecting you recapture as closely pos sible everything you hea rd when film 109. The important thing is siting your mi crophone properly. This you wi ll achie ve by playing on the 2 available levels of automatic recording, and by using the indications in the viewfinder as guidelin es. If the green LED flick ers, your mike is suitably si ted. If it fails to light, it IS too far from th e source. If it sta ys all, the sound is too loud. You can then flip the switch into the -lOdeci bel setting. In every case, a built-in device tones down excessive sound, and raises the level when it is toO weak.
An earphone supplied with the came ra allows you to monitor all sounds record ed by the C;lmera.
Retain the right to experiment
with special effects
As you have seen, to simplify filming, the BEAULIEU 1008 XL's functions are automatic . But there is nothing to pre vent you from using them manually wh enever you wish, Just for fun. Or to achieve some effect. Or to attempt the discovery of a new expression form.
Choose your £Istop, for instance. Suppose you wish to bring out a detail by purposely throwing the background out of focus. Choose your own stop to obtain the depth of field you want. Sup
pose you want to film against the light. Set your f/stop while aiming at the cen tral subject, which will thus be perfectly exposed, even with very st rong back lighting. You can also momentarily overexpose by one stop, by pressing on the "diaphragm corrector" button.
Separate your sequences more interestingly As the cinema and television pros do, you can smooth out the transition from one sequence to the next by the fade in/fade-out technique. Just a button to press. A t the beginning of the sequence, the picture lightens while the sound
becomes louder, while at the end the picture grows darker and the sou nd dies
down.
Dub in music, or a commentary You can connect the BEAULIEU 1008 XL toa tape recorde r or to a hi-fi system, and mix music and commentary on the fi lm's sound track by mean sof a special m ixing box. You can monitor the entire operation through your earphone.
Sub-title your films. The BEAULIEU 1008 XL can film one frame at a time. As on ;l profession;l l titling bench, you can trip the ca mera bymeansof the remote control, at what·
Accentuate zooming effects. By oper;lting the zooming ring manual ly, you can further accelerate or retard the "approach" or "recede" effects of zoommg.
ever rate you sl:lcct. And if you have the talent land th e patience!) why not try your first animated cartoon?
Further features for ease of use
-"Shooting" pilot light to let the actors
and sound-recorder know they are "on".
- Continuous tripping by trigger lock
when shooting long, uninterrupted
sequences; or for frame-by-frame film
ing on a tripod.
- Viewfinder eyepiece shutter to ex
clude stray reflected light when filming
on a tripod .
- Viewfinder eyepiece adjustable to
operator's eyesight.
_ Frame-by-framc synchronous flash
system.
- Frame counter.
- Battery-charge check.
- "Test" trigger position for all checks
in the viewfinder prior to shooting.
- Folding grip_
Accessories for the Beaulieu 1008 XL cine.camera.
~urphc,j wllh the C;"Ucl~ -Unid irecti onal monng COIl microphone with cord and stand Impedance . 500 ohm,. Scns,uvl\}' 10 mV (a l. Earph one [si ngle "ori. Lens hood
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CX",. .RctnO!c""ontrol load IbL MIxI ng box lei, 800m microphone Idj btun.] power ,upply lpoc\:c' bolder housing blghcr-p0,,"wod b,, "cflcsl,C. rr ying bag lei.
Technical data
Counter Sh utter Frame exposure time: _ at 9 fps.lf l 4 second Automatically resets to "start" when unloading - at 18 fps . 1/28 second film. - at 24 fps 1/37 second Power s u p ply - at 36 fps 1/56 second Six 1.5 V, AA·type batteries Speeds External power supply possible (six 1.5 V, HI' 11 size hallerics) 9, IS, 24 and36 frame s per second Lens Three·positlOn power supply switch. Heaulieu 7·45 mm f/1.2 zoom, with macro ca Single-frame
Fade pability. Exposure meter
Fade-in and fade-out (pictu re + sound ) Equipped with ruhher hood. CdS photo cell
Sockets • Diap hragm Film specd scale :ASA 25 · 400
Mike/line Fully automa tic se tt ing of aperture pro vtdc d by Dcnsity control possible
Earphone a servomotor. Manual override. Red LE D m the Remote comrol viewfinder in case of manual control. Camera loading
• Zooming Instant loadmg with 15 m {50 Itl sound or silent External power Flash sync hronization Two-speed power zoom. Supe r-8 canridges.
Manual zooming Sound Filter
Il.ecording on magnetic striped film Viewfi nd er Wratten 85 - type (I). Built·in.
Built-in ampJiiler
Reflex. Indicator LED in the viewfinder fo r artificial Picture/so un d gap: IS fps (standard )
DichroYc focusing. light setting.
Indicator LED in thl' Viewfinder in case of
Film transport IIldicator. sound recording. Release
IndIcation of lens aperture. Artif icial light, exposure control, sound level, Trigger
(II Wratten is a registered trademark of the Jnd end·of·film in dicator LEDs. Il.emote control possible
Eastman Kodak Company Specifications Format Super-So Dimensio ns: - Overall length : 230 mm _ Overall width : 72 mm - Overall heIght 215 mm Weight 1.775 Kg
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