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Canon Canonet Junior User manual
User manual for Canon Canonet Junior. 23 pages in English. Read the original PDF, download or print a copy without registration.
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- Canon
- Model / document
- Canon Canonet Junior
- Document type
- User manual
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 23
- File size
- 4.2 MB
- Category
- Film cameras
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Mike Butkus Digitally DN:email=mike@butkus.org,Date:cn=Mike2022.04.27signedButkus,by15:57:09Mikeo=ButkusButkusc=US-04'00'camera manuals, ou=butkus.org,
O"X' Flosh Termrnol @Coble Releose Socket
@Focusrng Rrng @Film Rewind Cronk
@Ptrotocell @Viewfinder Window
@Lens @Accessory Shoe
@Fitm Speed Indicotor @Film winding Lever
@Lens Aperture Rrng @Film counter
@shutter Releose ButlonView original page 2Page 3 · Read text
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(.!Viewfinder Eyepiece (DBock Cover Opening-closing Br:r
40Film Positron Mork @Tripod Socket
f6-'Neck Strop Holder @Rewind Releose Button
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fhonk you very much for buylng the CANONET JUNIOR. We ossure you ?hot you mode q wlse chotce. The CANONET JUNIOR is o superb new lype Electric Eye (EE) comero thot wos mode for the purpose of moking piclure-toking sinrple ond enioyoble for everyone throughout the world. Thrs comero, every brl worthy ol the world-fomous nome of CANON, is of the highest quolity ond performonce. We ore confident thol you were sotisfied with its design ond reosonoble price.View original page 5
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CANONET JUNIOR mqkes picrure-roking slmple clnd
enloyoble. lt hos the following feotures:
l. Excellent block ond wh'ite or color pictures con be token without
ony single foilure even by those who ore hondling o comero for
the first time.
It hos o complete progrom system electric eye (ge) in which.
the shutter speec ond operture stop ore outomoticolly set by
iust turning the comero-towords lhe subiect.
2. Zone focus syslem mokes focusing simple ond speedy.
Just select the zone mork inside the viewfinder thot motches the
subiect, ond your focusing is oll set!
3. The shutter does not click when lhe film is not looded. The comero
is olso equipped with o sofety device thot prevents film breokoge
when the lost frome is exposed
1. Tlre comero hos the superb new 40 mm F 2.8 Conon lens which ir
ideolly designed for color photogrophy.
5. A convenient ond simplified flosh synchronizing opporotus mok'es guide
numbers obsolele.
6. Double exposure prevenlion con be disconnected for more odvonced
photogropher.
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3. Viewfindei (Signol finder for the zone focus mork system)
This is o new type of viewfinder in which the field-of-view, shulter
speed ond focusing ore oll set inside the viewfinder. A needle indi'
crrles ;he shutter speed, ond when the shutter button is pressed the
needle stops to indicote the shutter speed.
1 t t /30 l2so t ltzs ldo
Flosh Speed
Automotic EE photogr.:phy is not possible when the viewfinder needle
is pointing to the flosh mork. When using boseless flosh bulbs, set the
disionce on the switehover ring to the Red mork (for block ond white
photogrophy) or the Blue mork (for color film). There will be no
need for colculotions using lhe guide numbcr becouse the correct
operture is obioined outomotico',ly' Ior the .sei shutter speed of 1/a0
3ec.
1. Other Specificotions
Len s: Conon Lens SE 40mm t2.8. Semi-wide-ongle
lens with excellent color bolonce.
Shutter: Seikosho L lens shutter with progrom system.
Shutrer speeds of 1fz5O, 11125, 1160, | /SO, A
(AutU) to correspond with operture stops
from F2.8 Io F22.
Film Winding: 't stroke, 2l 0c revolving ongle, lever type.
Flosh Synchronizotion: "X" contoct point.
Film Counter: Aulomotic resetting lype.
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AUTOMATIC EXPOSURE CONTROT
I Turn the film speed indicotor
ring ond set the film speed
scole. There ore two types
oI film speed scoles...one for
ASA ond the other for DlN.
(for both block ond white or
color films.)
2, Turn thc swilchover ring ond
set AUTO to the index.
It DOUBLE EXPOSURE OVERRIDE
lf ofter loking one picture you wish to expose the some frome once morc
(double exposure), set the rewind bullon to "R" ond turn fhe rewind
cronk opproximolely one"fourth of one revolulion in lhe direction of lhc
orrow, When o "click" sound is heord, stop rewinding ond switch over
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ETECTRIC EYE PHOTOGRAPHY
Whcn prepcrotlons for electrlc eye photogrophy hove
been completed, ihooting con start ot ony llme.
l. Focusing (Zone Focus I
System) |
Look into the viewfinder
ond turn the focusing I
ring.
2. The lhree zonc focus morks within the viewfinder ore indicoted by
closc (portroits), medium (group photos) ond distont (scenery).
Thc zone focus morks ore chosen occording to the subiect ro be
photogrophed.
Whcn thc locusing ring is lurned the needle on the side of the three
morks movcs,
Parallax Conection
Zone Focus Marl ! Inclcx for
Zone Focus nrarks
:;a) /..
C)vcr Exposurci
Warning Mark (
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3. Shutter Releose
Turn the comero towurds
the subiect ond press
the shuller button down.
The electric eye mecho-
nism does the colculolion
to set the shutler speed
ond operture stop in
ortier to obtoin lhe cor-
rect exposure.
When the comero is turned towords the subiect the shutier speed
indicoior need'e inside the viewfinder moves, ond simultoneously wilh
the releose of the shutter, the needle stops ond becomes slolionory.
The fi9ure indicoted is the speed oi the slrutter ot the time cf
rel eose.
250 125
5. During electric eye photogrophy the correct operture stops ore outo'
moticolly set to correspond with lhe obove-mentioned shutter speeds.
The operture slops ore therefore not indicoted
6. When the needle is pointing midwoy between two shutler speeds ot
the time the shutter is releosed, the shutter will hove been releosed
ot this intermediote speed.
250 125 60 30
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Wlnding Lever
l. The winding lever winds ihe film ond cocks the shutter with one sfroke
operotion. Wind the lever fully until it goer no further.
Froctionol winding doer not cock the shulter.
2. When the film is being wound up in o normol condition the rewind
cronk will revolve with eoch wind up movemenl. This will indicote
film looding proper or improper.
3. When the prescribed number of fromes
hos been shot the film con no longer be
wound up, the shutter connot be cocked
ond the shutter connot be octuoled.
4. At rhit time the winding lever wil! revolve, iust the sorne os during
windup operotions, if it is lurned with force. However, only the lever
will roce with some friction, thus preventing the domoging oi breok-
ing ihe perforotion of the film even when the winding lever is forcefully
iurned ofter the entire film hos been shot.
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FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY
l. Instructions for Flosh Photo-
grophy
Firsl, turn the comero towords
the subiect. lf the shutter
speed indicotor needle inside
lhe viewfinder does not move
over lo the figure side but
rcmoins inside lhe flosh mork, stop electric eye photogrophy using AUTO
ond switch over to f,oth photogrophy.
+ For flosh photogrophy using boseless lype flosh bulbs, use Conon Flosh
Quint, or Flosh Unit J-3.
2. Flosh Photogrophy
For flosh photogrophy using
boseless lype flosh bulbs o
c.onvenient method of photo-
grophy without the use of
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Turn the svritchover ring ond
set the figure indicoting the distonce between the comero ond the subiect
ogoinst the Blue flosh bulb mork when using color film ond ogoinst the
red flosh mork when using block ond white film.
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PHOTOGRAPHY BY MANUAL EXPOSURE
M'anuol Exposure Control
'1. In the cose of B (eulb) ex-
posure photogrophy, it is not
I possible lo toke pictures with
AUTO.
-+
When toking piclures using o
long exposure lime, os in lhis
cose, olwoys use o coble re'
leose ond set the comero
firmly on o tripod,
* When using B exposure the
operture should olwoys be
set ot full operture of F2.8.
2. When using on oplionol operture srop, in lhe cose of photogrophy
by monuol exFosure, the shutter speed is resiricted lo l,/30 sec.
Therefore, under cerloin condiiions loke pictures by choosing oper-
ture stops thot correspond to the shutler speed of l/30 sec.
Aperturestopsr F2.8 4 5.6 I ll 16 22
1, The shuiter speed indicotor needle inside the viewfinder moves even
during photogrophy b;, monuol exposure. However, ihe shufler speed
figure indicoted by the needle, hos nothing to do viith photogrophy
in this cose.
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it cnNoNET JuNtoR AccEssoRlEs
Florh Quint
Five bulbs cqn be floshed continuously.
Flosh Unit J-3
This light ond smoll flosh unit is exclusively for boseless type flosh
bulb use. AG ond PH sockets ore interchonqeoble.
Flosh Unit J-2
Boseless type flosh bulbs con be used in con;unction with boseless
odoplers.
Two types of boseless odopters, the AG ond PH lypes, ore ovoiloble.
Screw-in Type Filters (AAmr)
UV, Yl, Y3, Ol, Rl, Gl, Color Conversion A, B, ND4, ND8 ond
Skylight filters ore ovoiloble,
Selftinrer 6
5 - l2 sec. time-limit odiusioble type.
Lens Hood
Mode of plostic. Put on the outer side of the locusrng rrng.
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