Editing Nizo 800 P Professional

   | size = 23cm x 21cm x 7,5cm  

The Nizo professional is one of the best super8 cameras ever built. Alongside the professional [[:Category:Beaulieu|Beaulieu-cameras]], the [[:Leicina Special|Leicina special]], the [[Bauer S 715 XL Microcomputer]], the [[:Nikon R 10 Super|Nikon R10]], the [[:Canon 1014 XL-S CANOSOUND|Canon 1014XL-S]] and some others it has extensive features cobined in a - for the time - quite small form factor. As the first camera of it´s kind the legendary Nizo professional has been equiped with a Schneider Macro-Variogon 1,8/7-80 mm lenssystem. This multicoated masterpiece of optic precision engineering enables zoom and macro capabilities which have been superior compared to the majority of cameras available in the mid 70´s. The lenssystem of a Nizo professional can produce sharp and color neutral shots with a minimal object distance of 1,5 m. Objects in macroscale can be filmed as near as 1 cm wheras the macrorange of the lens follows the final position of the wide angle scale. The minimial picture field is within 41 x 30 mm.

At its introduction in 1975 Braun presents its top-of-the-line model as a compact camera, which, given the 12 fold zoom now capable of macro takes using the build-in lens and the delicate weight of 2 kg seems a little bit understated. However, the Nizo professional was, compared to its rival products and as allready mentioned above, built quite compactly. Brauns design department, under the chairmanship of Dieter Rams is responsible for the still attention drawing shaping of the Nizo professional and the silver family. The accessibility of the few control elements and switches is cleaned up and well alligned. But none the less the Nizo professional features technical goodies such as the further developed time exposure. Due to a spezial light meter each frame is exposed exactly the amount of time needed for the given light setting. Afterwards the next frame is automatically brought into the picture frame and realesed for exposure by the light sector of the rotatable shutter. Thus static scenes can be banned on film outstandingly without the use of any hand-held light meter, fiddling and calculations. Unfortunately the camera is missing an frame counter, which is incomprehensible regarding the complex automatic time laps incorporated in the Nizo professional.

The Nizo professional is powered by 6 standard AA batteries which are housed in a batterybox and are therefore secured in case of any battery leakage. The batterybox used in the camera can be used in allmost all of the later Nizo cameras. A unique feature of the Nizo professional is the foldable handle, which houses the batteies, and is capable of powering the camera even while backfolded. If the handle is backfolded a stable ground plate offers standard tripod mounting capabilities allowing a very sturdy fixation compared to the mounting position found on the bottom of the handle. The later one used to be very shaky due to the unstable plastic housing of the handle itself. In contrast to its model family (the S 800, S 801 and so on) the batterypack does additionally power the build in light meter. Thus avoiding an extra batteryset of two 1,35 V Cells which are hard to find nowadays. The Nizo professional does also feature an power supply plug where one of Brauns supplies, such as the [[SRN 80]] can be used to power the camera over an extended period of time. This is especially useful for long time laps shots.

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|Kodachrome 8 mm film

|Gevacolor 8 mm reversal film, later Agfa Dia-Direct

| 11

|Agfacolor 8 mm reversal film

| Adox CMS 20

| old Agfacolor, Kodachrome II and (later) Kodachrome 25

| 22

| Kodak Panatomic-X

| Kodachrome 40 (movie)

| Fuji RVP ([[Velvia]]), Ilford Pan F Plus, Kodak Vision2 50D 5201 (movie)

| 45

| Kodachrome 64, Ektachrome-X

| Ilford Commercial Ortho

| [[Kodacolor (still photography)|Kodacolor Gold]], Kodak T-Max (TMX), [[Provia]]

| 90

| [[Ilford FP|Ilford FP4+]], Kodak Plus-X Pan

| [[Fujicolor Pro|Fujicolor Pro 160C/S]], Kodak High-Speed Ektachrome, Kodak Portra 160NC and 160VC

 

Table will be renewed after the next issue of the "schmalfilm"-magazine where all Super8 Film Stok will be listed.