Eumig 860 PMA

Eumig 860 PMA

Year: 1976-78

Weight: 1450 g

Lens: Makro-Viennon 1,8 / 8 - 48 mm

Macro focusing

Split Image Focusing

Auto / Manual Zoom with 2 Speeds

Frame rates: 9, 18, 24, 45 + single frame

Shutter degree: 190

Manual / Auto Exposure

Backlight Control

+/- correction for auto exposure

Time exposure

Flash contact

Fades

Remote control socket

Interval timer with 1/4 - 60 second intervals

No sound

Made in Austria

PMA wide angle lens attachment.

Prices on eBay:
 * eBay Germany:
 * EUR 26,40 (+ EUR 7,00 shipping) in 02/2008

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Overview
There are some rumors that Quelle sold this camera as "Revue TM 6". An unusually full featured silent camera that has a larger film compartment which can run sound cartridges (in silent mode only) for pre-striped footage. Meter mechanism can get noisy with time but this will not effect operation. Meter can expose individual frames up to 60 seconds maximum for extreme low-light use. Moderately quiet running motor. Meter will only register 40/160 ASA but manual override and 'fix' setting will allow any film to be used. Override is meter-dependent, not mechanical linkage.

PMA lens converter
One of, maybe the first Eumig cameras that was availalable with the Panorama Macro Aspheric (PMA) ultra wide-angle converter. schmalfilm 5/2009 raves that when it was introduced in 1976, it was a world innovation at the time, at least in cinefilm, as the first ultra wide-angle lens and/or converter without any barrel or fisheye distortion. According to eBay, the resulting focal length is 4mm, an equivalent to 15mm in the 35mm film standard.

The same schmalfilm article also suggests that hardly anybody noticed about this converter back then because Eumig had missed out on the trend towards sound equipment, especially sound cameras, by 1976. When they finally did introduce sound cameras in the very late 1970s, they were off the map for cinefilm hobbyists and prosumers alike.