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Bronica S User manual
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Ir is best rhot you become intinptely ocquointed with your new Zenzo Bronico S ot lhe very oulset. For soon you
will both'6ecorne close ond inseporoble componions shoring mony delights ond odveniures in photogrophy.
Your Tenzo Bronico S is o precision instrument upon which hos been lovished the utmost of humon ingenuity ond skill.
It is unique in its field possessing conveniences ond outomolic teoiures to be found in no oiher instruments of its fype.
The Zenzo Bronico S wos designed to extend the scope of photogrophic expression beyond lhe limitotions imposed by
conveniionol equipment. lt wos designed to serve you - help you creole the fine picture results you hove often
conceived yet found fo be beyond the ken of presenl comero equipment. Ihe Zenzo Bronico S is on integroted fool in
which outomotic operotion ond quolity of performonce combine to equip ond ossisl you in ochieving nolobly better
oictures.
Dsvote the extro minutes it will tole you fo know your Zenzo Bronico S inlimotely. Reod the instructions corefully.
Your eftorts will be reworded by o fruitful componionship which will lost for mony, mony yeors.
INSTANTRETURNAUTOMATICMIRROR
The reflex mirror of the Bronico S is on exclusive originol. lt will not flip up for the exposL'reos in other single lens reflex
comeros. It moves {orword ond down with greoter cleoronce provided for deeply seoted lenses, permitting shorter focol
length to be used without mirror interference. Thus, the Bronico S con be equipped wifh o normol Z5mm lens, or with
s gomm wide ongle. After the exposure, the Bronico mirror instonlly-outomoticolly relurns fo viewing position,View original page 6Page 8 · Read text
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i r ' i i E R C H A N O E A B L E F i t M t N D E R ' B A C K
This convenient ieoture ofiers mony odvontoges. lt mokes possible to chonge film in the middle of o roll {block-ond-white to color,
color to block-ond-white. indoor to doylight, etc.l without o loss of o single exposure. ll olso permits you to prelood severol bocks,
it is oossible to shoot continuously without stopping for reloods.
The l'ilminder bock is fully outomotic ond foolproof. lt is equipped wilh o metol dork slide to prevenf film from being exposed while
the bock is oft the comero. The bock connot be removed until the dork slide is inserted, ond while the bock is off the comero, the
d o r k s l i d e c o n n o t b e w i t h d r o w n .
When o filminder bock is ottoched to the comero. no otlenlion need be poid os to whelher lhe film or lhe shuller hos been previously
w ound.
The film odvonce cronk which normolly winds shutter ond film simultoneously, outomolicolly performs only the required function. For
exomple, if the shutter is wound, ond i{ lhe film in position hos been exposed, rototing lhe cronk will only odvonce rhe film to o fresh,
unexoosed section. Also, when the bock is on ihe comero, lhe dcrk slide must be completely withdrown before exposure con be mode.
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N E W F X C L U S I V E F I L M T E N S I O N S Y S T E A A N I K K O R L E N S E S
The Bronico film lension sysfem mokes the film surfoce perfect- Nikkor lenses ore stondord for the Bronico S. Todoy, no finer
ly flot ol the focol plone. All lension on the film is removed o p t i c s o r e o v o i l o b l e . A n d N i k k o r l e n s e so r e t h e m o s t c o m p o t i b l e
d u r r n g l h e w i n d i n g p r o c e s s . T h e i n s t o n t l h e f i l m i s i n p l o c e , lenses for the superb performonce of the Bronico S. Nikkor
l e n s i o n i s o u t o m o t i c o l f yo p p l i e d . lenses hove proved to be the finest in 35mm phorogrophy field
The system not only ollows the use of much greoter tension to in which opticol quolity meons otmost everything.
ossure perfect flotness ot the focol plone but olso eliminotes Avoiloble f ocol length ronge f rom 50mm wide ongle to | 000mm
dongerous film scrotches which con occur if the film is odvonced s u p e r t e l e p h o t o . T h e 5 0 , 7 5 o n d l 3 5 m m l e n s e s o r e e q u i p p e d
w h i l e u n d e r t e n s i o n . with instont return outomotic diophrogms ond ore designoted os
* P o t e n t o p p l i e d A u t o - N i k k o r s .View original page 9Page 11 · Read text
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'FILMINDER'REMOVINGTHE BACK
Hold the comero body in the left hond, with filminder bock in right, so thot the thumb rests on protruding
edge of dork slide.
Note: The Film Bock connot be removed from the Bronico unless lhe metol slide is inserfed.
Press dork slide inword with thumb. This releoses the filminder bock from the c o m e r o . R e m o v e b y l i l t i n g
the filminder bock os illustroied ond lift from open hinge ot bottom.
Note ' The dork slide is only necessory f or removing the film bock from t h e c o m e r o . T h e d o r k s l i d e
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' F I L M I N D E R ' L O A D I N G T H E B A C K
The BRONICA S uses 120 roll film ond moy be looded either with the filminder bock on or off the comero. lf you prefer to lood with
the bock ottoched, follow these instructions.
o. Open the frome-shoped mosk of'the film type indicotor ond slide ihe lock in the direction of the '0'; fhe bock cover will
then pop open.
b. Remove the film holder from the filminder bock.
c. The fllm holder consists of two spindle ossemblies:
The lower spindle ossembly which is morked with o red orrow, holds the roll of unexposed film ond other holds the toke-up
spool.
Note ihoi one end of the spindle in the bock is spring-looded ond con be moved out of position.
d. The unexposed roll of fllm must be looded into the spindle which is morked with the red onow. Push one end of the film
roll into the spring-looded side of the spindle.
The film roll then slips into ploce. Moke sure fhot the inside of the lioder poper foces outwords.
e . Drow the leoder poper ocross lhe film pressure plote over the roller. lnsert ihe end of the leoder poper into the wide slot
of the toke-up spool ond secure it by monuolly rototing the toke-up spool until the film slort mork.
f. Ploce the film holder into the open film bock, so ihot the geor wheels on the holder onci in the bock fit together.
g . To hove the two geors fit correctly, it moy be necessory to rolote the monuol film winder ; then push down the film holder,
wind the leoder poper until the red orrow mork on the film motches the stort mork.
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h. Push the lock to the "C" mork. lf the bock cover does not lock fully, check ond mole cerroin rhe film hotder is properly
s e i i n t h e f i l m b o c k .
i PIoce on end of the film corton box in the film type indicotor mosk ; push down ond lock the frome mosk. This exclusive
film type indicotor mosk is designed so fhof you con see the nome of film, os well os the rype ond the speed.
i The exposure counter windOw shOws the film expOsure number
I To combine lhe loqded filminder bock with the comero body, pull out the film winding cronk ottoched wirh the focusing
k n o b o n d w i n d t h e c r o n k u n r i l i t i s c h e c k e d , t h e n ( l l w i l l o p p e o r i n t h e e x p o s u r e c o u n t e r w i n d o w .
I Even if lllminder bock is not combined with the comero boCy. [ilm con be wound by roroiing rhe film winding diol on rhe
b o c k '
Couiion : Hondle "Filminder Bock" corefully. Don't press down, ond ovoid ony shock, to prevent the light leok prevention
curtoin from being siuck. Also the flot surfoce of film moy not be mointoined,
REMOVINGTHE EXPOSEDFILM
After the l2 expcsures ore mode. the film odvonce cronk will wind only the film. Wind until there is no resistonce. Jhen, open the
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d . lf o mognilied imoge is desired, push bock on hood cover. This will releose the mognifier into position. Keep the eye close
lo the mognifier for o cleor vision of the entire field of the focusrng screen.
e . To reploce mognifier, press down on metol mognifier frome until it locks ogoinst ihe under.side of the hood cover.
f . T o c l o s e t h e h o o d , I i r s t h o l d i n t h e s i d e s , t h e n t h e b o c k , o n d f i n o l l y , b r i n g f h e f r o n t c o v e r d o w n u n t i l ' c l i c l s ' s h u t .
9. To remove lhe focusing hood - either for cleoning the screen or interchonging with sports or other finders - lift the hood
retoining lock obove comero nome plofe. Hood will spring free.
h . To reploce hood, slide it gn, so thot the fwo melol tobs on the comero Iit into the slots on the reor of the hood frome.
Snop hood closed.
(3) U S I N G T H F D E P T H - O F - F I E L DP R E V I E W B U T T O N
I n t h e B r o n i c o S , t h e l e n s i s o l w o y s w i d e o p e n f o r v i e w i n g o n d focusing, regordless of the operture you hove selected for the
e x p o s u r e . H o w e v e r , o f t e r h o v i n g f o c u s e d y o u m o y w o n t t o s e e t h e d e p t h - o f - f i e l d o t ' t o k i n g ' o p e r t u r e .
W h i l e l o o k i n g o t t h e f o c u s i n g s c r e e n ( w i t h o r w i r h o u t m o g n i f i e r )p r e s s t h e r e d b u t t o n w i t h t h e f o r e f i n g e r o f y o u r l e f t h o n d .
T h i s w i l l i n s i o n t l y c l o s e t h e d i o p h r o g m d o w n t o y o u r p r e s e l e c t e d ' t o k i n g ' o p e r t u r e o n d t h e i m o g e i n t h e s c r e e n w i l l s h o w t h e e x q c t
depth-of-field ot thot operture.
R e l e o s et h e r e d b u t t o n o h d t h e d i o p h r o g m w i l l i n s t o n t l y s p r i n g b o c k f o f u l l o p e r t u r e ,View original page 15Page 16 · Read text
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1, t( l S E L E C T I N GI H E S H U TI E R S P T E D
A shutter speed mcy be salected either before or ofter the shuiter is wound,
Rotote the speed selecior diol until the desired shutter speed'clicks'into position under red orrow heod indicotor.
The selector moy olso be set for intermediote shutter speeds (belween morking).
T h e n u m e r o l sr e p r e s e n t s h u r r e r s p e e d s o f I s e c o n d , l 1 2 , 1 1 4 , l l 8 , 1 1 1 5 , l / 3 0 , X , 1 1 6 0 , 1 1 1 2 5 , 1 1 2 5 0 , 1 1 5 0 0 , o n d l / 1 0 0 0 t h , " X '
represenls l/50th second, ond is rhe fostest shutter speed with which X-type (electronic) flosh units moy be used {see Using
flosh). "B" is for Bulb.
When "Time" exposure is desired,it con be orrongedby setting ot "8".
The body releosebutton is equipped with o solety lock. Rolote the fip of the releosebufton clockwise. W hen t he red dot
is in side positron,shutteris locked.
When "T" lTime) exposure is desired, set the shurter speed diol ot "B", depress the body releose builon ond turn the tip of
the bulton counier-clockwise. This will lock the shutleropen. To close the shutter,turn the lip of the b u t t o n c l o c k w i s e .View original page 16Page 17 · Read text
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( 5 i M I R R O RL O C K - D O W N B U T T O N
Note: The dork slide need not be reinserted ofter the ex-
A mirror lock-down button is locoted below the shutter releose posure unless you intend to remove the filminder
button, on the bottom of the comero body. boc k.
After winding the shutter, the mirror con be locked down by b. To moke the exposure, squeeze the body releose with the
pushing the mirror lock-down button, then depress the shutter right or left forefinger, os preferred. You will notice thor
button seporolely, so thot the reol quiet exposure con be mode. t h e i m o g e r e t u r n s t o t h e v i e w r n g s c r e e n i m m e d i o t e l y o f t e r
the exposure - bright ond cleor os betore. This is rhe
result of two outomotic Bronico feotures; the insront re-
( 6 ) M A K T N G T H E E X P O S U R E turn outorr,otic mirror ond the instont reopen outotnotic
diop hrogm. 'toking'
Hoving odvonced film, wound the shutter, selected the It is desiroble to use o coble releose when slow shutter
o p e r t u r e o n d s h u t t e r s p e e d , o n d h o v i n g f o c u s e d t h e l e n s ' y o u speed is used. Coble releose socket is ploced both on the
ore now reody to moke the exposure. b o d y r e l e o s e b u t t o n o n d b e l c w t h e d e p t h - o f - f i e l d p r e v i e w
o . l f t h e m e t o l d o r k s l i d e h o s n o t b e e n p r e v i o u s l y w i t h d r o w n , b u t t o n .
d o s o o t t h i s t i m e . T h e B r o n i c oc o n n o t b e ' f i r e d ' w i t h t h e When shooting ot speeds slower thon t/SOtn second, it is
dork slide in position. lt must be completely removed. recommended thot the Bronico be mounted on o stobfe
S i m p l y p u l l t h e w i r e h o l d l e u n t i l t h e s l i d e i s w i t h d r o w n . tripod or rested on o firm support.View original page 17Page 18 · Read text
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I/] MAKING DOUBlE OR MUTTIPTEEXPOSURE
As exploined eorlier, your Bronico hos buili-in protection ogoinst inodvertent double ex.oosure. However, there ore. times when delibero?e
double exposure moy be desired.
o. After moking one exposure, ond wishing to moke onother on the some {exposedl film frome, remove lhe mogozine bock.
b. Rolote the film odvonce cronk until fhe shutier is wound, Ploce the mogozire bock on the comero. You moy now moke the double
ex Po sure.
(8) INIERCHANGING TENSES
Lenses ore quickly ond eosily interchongeoble on the Bronico S. The normol 75mm lens, the 50mm wide ongle ond l35mm telephotoore
equipped with quick-chonge, 1f6 turn boyonet mounrs.
o. To remove boyonet-mounted lens, hold lens front in the right hond with thumb on milled ridges of Lens Boyonef Lock.
b. Press boyonet lock wilh thumb, ond simultoneously rwist lens to the left (counter-clockwisel l/6 turn. Remove lens.
c' To mount lens, insert lens into focusing tube, lining up the red dcts on lens ring ond focusing tube. Twist the lens.mount to righl
lclockwisel until boyonet lock snops closed.
d' To mount Nikkor telephoto lenses longer thon l80mm, first rock the focusing tube bock to infinity. Mount the long telephoto leirs
in the outside boyonet. Focus with the focusing ring on the lens.
Note: The inside of the Bronico focusing tube is threoded {diometer 57mm, pitch-lmml in order to occept ony lenses you now
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EFFICIENCY
Type : Doylight looding, interchongeoble film bock, 2f"X2f" l6cmX6cml
single lens reflex comero.
F i l m , I2 0 ro ll film (Bro wn iefilrn ),l2 exoosur es.
S t o n d o r dL e n s : NIK K OR 7 5 mm F,2 .8 fu lly o u tom oticpr eset diophr ogm5, elem ents.
Lens lvlount , Boyonet type {BRONICA mounting},olso equipped with screw mount-
in g (5 7 mmd io . p itch = lmm), o nd lor ge Boyonet m o.untingto occept
long telephoto lenses.
Finder : Equippingwith fresnel lens ond lorge mognifier.
Viewfinder Hood: Interchongeoblewith pentoprismviewfinder, or sports finder.
Focusing : Side knob type focusing.
DistonceScole : Equippingwith distonce scole for 75mm, 50mm ond | 35mm lenses,
M i r r o r : Flip p in gd o wn , in sto n t re tu rn o utom oticm ir r or system .
Mirror Releose
Bulton ' Mirror only con be releosed by pressingdown Mirror RoleoseButton.
Diophrogm : Fully outomotic preset diophrogm - 75mm 50mm ond l35mm lenses.
Monuol preset diophrogm - I 80mm, 250mm, 350mm ono
500mm lenses.
Diophrogm
Preview Butlon : Depth-of-fieldcon be checked by pressing down Diophrogm preview
B u tto n .
Shutter : Verticolly operoting focol plone shutter. non-rototing single shutter diol,
B . r , 1 1 2 , 1 1 4 ,1 1 8 ,t l t s , 1 1 3 0 ,1 1 6 0 ,r l 1 2 s , 1 1 2 5 0 t, / 5 0 0 , l / I O O O
ond "X" (l/50), "T" (Timel exposurecon be obtoinedby uiilizing
shulterreleoselock device, intermedioteshutter speed con be obtoined.
Synchro : Automotic switchingover synchronizotionsystem;
FP closs bulb: synchronizedot oll shutter speeds,except ot "X,'.
M closs bulb , B. l-1 1250.
F c l o s sb u l b : B . l - l / 1 5 .
Electronic
Flosh : " X " . I - l / 1 5 .
lnlerchonging
Films : lnterchongeoble film bock which is fully coupled with comero body,
dork slide with sofety lock system, built-in light leok prevention curtoin.
Film Looding r Automotic film winding system by motching with film stort morking,
hinged bock cover, speciol film holder.
Film Winding , : Self-cocking type by winding cronk.
Film Counter : Automoticolly returning bock to I'O".
Exferior Comero
Body , Mode of l8-8 Stoinless Steel, polished finish.
Dimension , l 0 0 m m X l 0 0 m m X l 4 0 m m Soft Ieother Cose
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