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Description: | For Super 8 film in sound cartridges. Kodak Ektar lens F;9mm f/1.2. Automatic exposure; DV optical finder. Magnetic sound recording facility on striped film. No 015347. In original carton with microphone and wriststrap.
The Kodak Ektasound 130 was the first camera designed to record sound simultaneously with picture onto magnetically-striped Super 8 Ektachrome film. The camera has an f/1.2 9mm lens and a direct vision optical finder. Exposure is set automatically. A microphone plugs into the mini jack socket at the side of the camera below the lens. It requires six 1.5volt batteries to run the camera and one 9v battery to power the sound module. These are contained in the handgrip. The camera runs at 18 frames per second with a two second sound delay after start-up. The camera suffered from the classic problem that besets those wishing to record sound and picture simultaneously: the microphome picked up the noise made by the camera mechanism. It was also difficult to decide what the problem was if the red indicator light inside the viewfinder did not flash to show that the sound was being recorded at a satisfactory level; four conditions had to be satisfied - the microphone was connected; a cartridge was in the camera; there was sufficient battery power and the volume was adequate. Discontinued 1977. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | cine camera | Temporal: | 1973 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Kodak | Identifier: | 1990-5036/8089 | Go to resource |
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