Chinon 200 XL help!

[avr]

Hi I bought a Chinon Pacific 200 XL S8 camera. There are a few buttons and i understand its operation, but there are tree butttons that I don´t know about these. I´m glad to hear from you which is its operation.

1 - in the left side of the camera there is a swich that show "L" or "H"
http://terra.es/personal5/andres.victorer//IMAGENES/chinon-200XL.jpg

2 - in the right side there is a red button-screw
3- a button that show +....1X..... -

http://terra.es/personal5/andres.victorer//IMAGENES/chinon-200-XL.jpg

Another question is: I supose that the "focus on - off" is for activate desactivate focus like a videocamera? but the camera don´t works in autofocus mode when the swich is in auto...

thanks a lot.

[Barry_Green]

The 200/8XL is a brilliant S8 camera, one of the best Chinon ever produced. Congrats!

1) I believe the L/H switch was for the zoom motor speed, "low" or "high"
2) The red button-screw is for daylight or tungsten-balanced film. There's a depressable switchunder that screw-in piece. The thinking was that if you were indoors, you'd mount a light by screwing it into that socket. If you were outdoors you wouldn't have anything attached to the socket. So they put the daylight/tungsten filter switch in there. There should be an empty screwhole socket on the top of the camera, which is where you can put that red plastic screw-in piece when you don't want to use tungsten-balanced film.
3) The +/- switch is for automatic exposure compensation. Turn it to - if you want the images to be biased towards a deeper f-stop, turn it to + if you want a more-open f-stop.

As for the focus on/off thing, the Chinon does not have any sort of autofocus. What it had was a sort of safe-focus zone, a combination of zoom and aperture settings that would pretty much guarantee that everything was in focus (so you didn't have to even worry about focusing). I believe that switch did something on the order of limit the zoom and the aperture to stay within that range.

[avr]

Once more you have solved my problem. Thanks a lot Barry :)

[TimurCivan]

hey you know i just got a chinon as well, but i havent been able to test it. ( its in Turkey, i am going to get it in a couple weeks) One thing i noticed was, it did not seem to focus in the view finder. Mind you it had no batteries in it. When you put batteries in it, does it activate somethign that puts it into focus???? does your Chinon do that???? or is the Cam screwed up?

[Barry_Green]

There's nothing about a super8 camera that's going to change focus by adding batteries. Most likely you just need to focus the eyepiece. There's likely a diopter adjustment somewhere near the viewfinder that lets you focus the eyepiece.