RE: Eclair Cameras: Image Quality

[Michael Welle <mwelle@starband.net>]

Wade,

When I shot Fuji Color Negative, and had it transferred to video, the 
lab got the colors all wrong (pink faces).  Since then, I have been 
afraid to shoot this film.  But I shot six rolls recently, and I am 
planning to send them off to www.3516.com for scene by scene color 
correction.  It has been my experience that with reversal on video 
transfer, the colors come out beautifully--and the lab doesn't impose 
their "color bias" onto the video transfer.  I know it doesn't have as 
much latitude as negative though--so in terms of very contrasty scenes 
negative is superior.

As far as using the TTL light meter on the Eclair, you can approximate 
an incident reading by taking a measure of a grey card
within the same light as your subject.  Since you are taking a reflected 
reading and not an incident reading with this meter, you need to use a 
grey card for consistent exposure of faces.  If you know how far off 
Caucasian skin is from the grey card you can compensate by overexposing 
1 stop without using the card itself.  For darker skin you would have to 
underexpose, as a reflected reading would attempt to render it grey.  
Personally, I find the TTL meter indispensible for moving shots where 
the light changes drastically.  I like to do shots like the endless 
tracking one in Goodfellas where you are moving everywhere and the light 
is constantly changing.  This is why the Canon Scoopic MS was such an 
awesome camera, because it changed exposure for you automatically, just 
like a video camera.  Part of the point I'm trying to make is that built 
in meters are great for moving shots whereas handheld meters are 
impractcal for this.  I could be wrong, though.  Do you have a method 
for shooting moving shots without a TTL meter?

Mike Welle

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