High quality German-made camera by Braun. Year of manufacture 1972 - 1975, replaced by S-801 in 1975:

• Two-speed power zoom, press lightly on the zoom buttons for low speed, harder for higher speed.
• The automatic Lap Dissolve button is on top of the camera closer to the eyepiece, and on some models is marked with an "R" for rewind. When you film, and want to do a dissolve...just depress this button...the camera will automatically fade out via the variable shutter, the stop, then rewind the film and reset itself for filming the next scene.
• Manual and automatic exposure control....use manual knob while observing aperture scale in viewfinder
• Manual fade-out/fade-in....by using the red (normally red) knob lever on the control side of the camera. By pulling it towards you while filming...you are fading out.....to fade-in...first pull it toward you, then begin filming...then slowly release it to the front and the scene will fade-in. The variable shutter can be locked in the half-way position....just bring it to the halfway mark and pull downward and it will fit into a slight indent and stay there. To lock the shutter to the completely open position...pull the lever all the way back and lock it into the end detent. This is past the closing position and the shutter will now stay open and be regulated by the running speed only. Thus....with coupling this with the time-lapse device (intervalometer) you can actually make automatic exposures of up to one minute PER FRAME!
• The manual zoom is accomplished by turning the front ring at the back of the zoom lens to the manual zoom position....the lens will now zoom very smoothly in manual mode.
• Slow motion is the small black 54fps button in the middle of the speed control knob. The light meter will automatically compensate for the slow motion time period that you have this depressed in. Thus, you can go to instant slow motion at any time and back to normal filming upon releasing this button. Or set the knob to whatever filming speed you desire (18, 24, 54fps). The camera also has a single frame setting marked by a '1' at the knob.
• Camera allows for flash sync with single frame mode, or use this for contact reference with a separate pulse-sync generator.
• Camera has electric release via using a remote control switch.
• Camera has a manual cable release socket.
• Camera has a DIN plug socket used for Pilotone sync output and other double-system sound information (1 pulse per frame or 1 pulse every 4rth frame...camera has built in pulse-sync generator for this purpose)
• Camera's light meter will automatically index with films from ASA 25 (daylight with filter) to ASA 400 (daylight without filter). Odd films and special work should be done with a separate light meter and the aperture set manually.
• Zoom range is 11.4:1 ratio, 7mm to 80mm F/1.8
• Shutter opening is 170 degrees, and thus is not an XL (existing light) shutter.
• Focusing is via split-image. Set up viewfinder by placing a newspaper or other sharp print material tape to a wall, set camera exactly 10ft away by using a tape measure and tripod....measure to film plane mark on right side of camera. Set lens to 10ft at full telephoto (80mm) and now adjust viewfinder dioptre until sharp and the split image is lined up. NOTE: Depending on your own eyesight.....often to make the split-image line up perfectly requires that the rest of the viewfinder be slightly out of focus...no matter..this is the correct setup...if the split-image shows it lined up at 10ft and the lens is set at 10ft...all is correct.
• Built-in Daylight conversion filter Kodak Wratten 85A/85 equivalent. Compensate for 1/3 Stop exposure if using this filter against the Tungsten filmspeed rating (e.g. Kodachrome 40 is ASA 25 with filter, Ektachrome 125 is ASA 80 with filter etc)

Best wishes, Martin W. Baumgarten

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