Beaulieu MAR8 Automatic Camera

Beautiful french camera 1960. In perfect condition and rare. Beaulieu is already well known in 1961 for its reflex aim of precision on frosted which allows an absolutely incomparable focus. The beaulieu mar8 automatic is the most complete 8mm camera. Without you intervening its diaphragm is automatically and constantly adjusted more precisely than you would have done yourself. It has a photoelectric cell placed in a tube just below the lens and which receives light through a very small aperture: this gives it a remarkable sensitivity and directivity, the field of this cell being strictly limited to subjects located in that of the lens. In this camera the diaphragm is automatically adjusted according to the light captured by the cell which, thanks to a perfectly adjusted mechanism, is responsible for opening or closing it with docility and fidelity. Shadow and light are thus surprisingly rendered and respected and this, with films of all sensitivities, from 10 to 320 asa. Features beaulieu mar8 automatic. * release date: 1962. * film format: 8 mm double 8. * sensitivity range: 10 to 320 asa. * film length & loading system: 7.5m film reels. Manual loading. The total duration of a film after development is about 4 minutes at 18 frames second. * drive: regulated spring mechanics with hand-cranked winder allowing 30 seconds of shooting at 18 frames per second. * frame rate: 12, 18, 24, 48 and 64 frames per second, view per view and full reverse. * viewfinder: frosted glass reflex viewfinder with diopter corrector. * counter: 3 mechanical meters in meters, english feet and images. Reset button on the image counter. * lenses: standard "d" mount. * angénieux f/1.8 – 7.5 to 36mm. * or scheinder variogon f/1.8 – 8 to 48 mm. * focus: manual by turning the lens ring. * posemeter: yes.

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