Loading factory-defined or previously programmed lenses: Press the SEL button and select the required lens set using the handwheel.

Display:

Lens set:

UP

ARRI Zeiss Ultra Primes

VAr P

ARRI Zeiss Variable Primes

HS 35

ARRI Zeiss High-speed set for 35mm film

Std35

ARRI Zeiss Standard set for 35mm film

HS 16

ARRI Zeiss High-speed set for 16mm film

User

lenses previously defined by the user

Confirm the selection by pressing the SEL button. Choose the required focal length using the handwheel and confirm the selection by pressing the SET button. Then calibrate the lens by pressing the CAL button on the WMU-1

and set the displayed T-stop value (‘ADJ’ is shown in the first display line) using the handwheel. Check the T-stop on the lens.

Confirm by pressing the SET button.

Check the other available T-stops by adjusting them with the handwheel.

Defining iris tables for other lenses:

To avoid operational errors, turn the handwheel until

‘TBL DEL’ appears in order to delete an iris table which may already have been set.

Press the SEL button – ‘DEL’ flashes on the display. Press the SET button to confirm – ‘DONE’ is displayed for a second.

Then turn the handwheel until ‘TBL EDIT’ is displayed and confirm by pressing the SEL button.

Turn the handwheel to the left until the first T-stop given on the iris ring of the lens being used is shown in the second line of the display.

This must be a full T-stop from the standard T-stop range. Then press the SEL button.

‘ADJ’ now flashes in the first line of the display.

Set the iris ring to the displayed value using the handwheel. The T-stop value is programmed by pressing the SET button.

This is indicated in the first line by an ‘I’ next to ‘TBL’. In case you need to delete a wrong assignment, press the SET button again. The ‘I’ next to ‘TBL’ disappears again.

Turn the handwheel again until the next value given on the iris ring of the lens being used is shown on the display. Program this and the next values as described above.

If the iris scale of the lens being used is linear, it is sufficient to enter just two T-stop values, which must

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