Eclair ACL II Manual Do Utilizador

This document probably originated from this website:

The online Eclair ACL 16mm camera manual:

The site has all sorts of links and info about the Eclair ACL, including the original Eclair ACL I manual in .PDF format.

Here’s the whole sorrid tale of the creation of this document:

This document started as a series of 300 d.p.i. full-page scans of an original Eclair ACL 1.5 manual.

The person who did this original scanning was Luis Enrique Osorio, who lives in Bogotá, Colombia.

Luis eventually sent Perry Paolantonio a copy of the scans to him in Boston.  Perry has a fine website dedicated to

the Eclair ACL.

Check out Perrys Eclair ACL website:

Perry eventually caught wind that Eric Bickernicks of Marlborough, Massachusetts had created a .PDF document of

an Eclair ACL I manual.  He bang-out a CD-R of these scans and sent them to him.

The text was OCR’ed with Omnipage Pro 8.0.  The images were down-sampled to 150 d.p.i TIFFs with Photoshop

5.0.2.  (All line art were converted to 300 d.p.i. bitmaps)  The original layout of the manual was recreated in Adobe

PageMaker 6.5.  (I’ve even left in the few words that didn’t make the translation from French to English.)  Adobe

Acrobat 4.0 was used to compress the images and imbed the index links with the final .PDF document.  This was all

done on a crappy Radius 8100/110 Macintosh clone.

I don’t claim to own the copyright of the information within this document.  I just hope that on one attempts to print out

copies of THIS document and try to sell them on ebay or something.  (or at least cut me in on th edeal!) :-)  There

doesn’t seem to be alot of information out there about his camera, so if anyone HAS any info please feel free to

contact me.  I understand there may be a different manual for the Eclair ACL II camera.  If anyone is willing to send

me some scans of that, I’d love to recreate it in .PDF format.  I’m also looking for an Eclair NPR manual to digitize.

Eric Bickernicks can be contacted (as of September 1999) at these e-mail addresses:

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