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CanonFlex RM User manual
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Foreword
O u r s i n c e r e s t g r o t i t u d e f o r p u r c h o s i n gt h e C o n o n f l e x R M o n d
o u r h e o r t f e l t c o n g r o t u l o t i o n s o n i o i n i n g t h e t h o u s o n d st h r o u g h -
o u t t h e w o r l d w h o o r e p r o u d o w n e r s o f q u o l i t y C o n o n c o m e r o s .
C o n o n c o m e r o s o r e p o p u l o r e v e r y w h e r e i n t h e w o r l d . W h i l e
l e o d i n g t h e w o y t o d e v e l o p m e n t si n t h e p h o t o g r o p h i c c i r c l e s
i n J o p o n , t h e C o n o n C o m e r o C o . h o s c o n t i n u e d u n t i r i n g o n d
c o n s i s t e n t e f f o r t s t o b r i n g o b o u t " H o p p i e r L i f e f o r E v e r y o n e "
t h r o u g h v o r i o u s C o n o n p r o d u c t s .
O n t h e b o s i s o f p r o d u c t i o n p l o n s w h i c h o l w o y s r e f l e c t t h e
d e m o n d o n d t r e n d , n o t i u s t o f t h e p r e s e n t , b u t o l s o o f t h e
f u t u r e , t h e C o n o n C o m e r o C o . i s s t r i v i n g t o b r i n g y o u b e t t e r
C o n o n c o m e r o s o l l t h e t i m e
D e p e n d i n g o n m o n y y e o r s o f e x p e r i e n c e o n d o f o m o s t
m o d e r n o n d r o t i o n o l p r o d u c t i o n s y s t e m c o m b i n i n g C o n o n -
e x c l u s i v e t h e o r i e s o n d m o n u f o c t u r i n g t e c h n o l o g y , p r o d u c t i o n
i s c o r r i e d o u t o c c o r d i n g t o o n i n t e g r o t e d s y s t e m f r o m r o w
m o t e r i o l s t o f i n i s h e dp r o d u c t s . C o n s e q u e n t l y ,w e o r e c o n f i d e n t
t h o t t h i s C o n o n f l e xR M , i u s t l i k e o l l o t h e r C o n o n p r o d u c t s , w i l l
c o m p l e t e l y s o t i s f y y o u o s t o q u o l i t y , p e r f o r m o n c e , p r i c e o n d
o l l o t h e r p o i n t s .
W e l o o k f o r w o r d t o y o u r m o k i n g f u l l o n d e f f e c t i v e u s e o f
t h i s C o n o n c o m e r o i n y o u r h o m e , i n y o u r r e s e o r c h l o b o r o l o r y ,
o n t r i p s o n d o n h i k e s .
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Moin Specificotlons of Cononflex RM
T y p e Single-lens reflex 35 mm comero
F i n d e r Pentoprism, single-lens reflex, eye-level
t y p e . T h e W o i s t - l e v e l V i e w e r 2 R M c o n
be coupled.
F o c u s i n gG l o s s F r e s n e l l e n s f o c u s i n g g l o s s u s i n g s p e c i o l l y
t r e o t e d , h i g h r e s o l v i n g p o w e i f o c u s i n g
g l o s s . S p l i t - i m o g e t y p e r o n g e f l n d e r .
Mirror Q u i c k - r e t u r n t y p e .
Fully Automotic Super Conomotic system completely cont-
P r e - S e t A p e r t u r e r o l s o u t o m o t i c p r e - s e t o p e r t u r e m e c h q n i s m .
M e c h o n i s m
Shutter L i n e o r l y c o l i b r o t e d f r o m l / 1 0 0 0 - l s e c .
o n d B . S i n g l e - p i v o t f o c o l p l o n e s h u r t e r .
B u i l t - i n E x p o s u r e N e e d l e t y p e c o u p l e d t o t h e s h u t t e r s p e e d
M e t e r d i o l . W h e n u s i n g A S A 1 0 0 f i l m , i t h o s o
s e n s i t i v i t y r o n g e f r o m E V 6 t o E V 1 7 .
E f f e c t i v e w i r h f i l m f r o m A S A l 0 r o A S A
8 0 0 .
Flosh Synchroni- Direct flosh connector socket ond outomotic
zolion time-log odiustment.
I n t e r c h o n g e o b l e V o r i o u s t y p e s w i t h p r e - s e t d i o p h r o g m s .
Lenses
S e l f - t i m e r Built-in type octuoted by pressing shutier
releose button. Time con be od[usted.
Winding Through winding of 120" film winding
lever, the film is odvonced one frome, the
shutter is cocked ond the mirror ond the
operture ore chorged.
Film Rewind Film rewind releose button ond f olding
t y p e r e w i n d c r o n k .
Film Looding One bock cover to lood either speciol
mogozine or regulor cossette. Locking of
bock cover ond releose of mogozine ore
c o r r i e d o u t s i m u l t o n e o u s l y . O p e n i n g o f
bock cover outomoticolly returns film
counter diol to "S" (storting point).
Dimensions l 4 5 m m x 9 2 m m X 4 7 m m
Weight 680 groms body only
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Index Mark
Lens Pre- S et
Aperture Ring
Manual
Aperture Ring
Knurled Focus ing
R i n g
The Super Conomotic lens is equipped with the
outomotic pre-set diophrogm. Ordinorily, the lens
is wide open, but when the shutter is octuoted, the
lens is closed down outomoticolly to the pre-selected
operture stop. When the shutter operotion is com-
pleted, it outomoticolly reopens to full operture.
Automotlc Pre-Sel Dicrphrogm
This is the mechonism for odiusting the size of the
operture which is outomoticolly closed down. lf
this ring is turned ond set to the mork, the lens is
closed down to the pre-selected operture stop for
the instont thot the shutter is releosed.
Monuql Aperture Rlng
lf this ring is turned,-the lens con be opened or
closed without relotion to the pre-selected operture
stop. Through use of this ring , you con see the
octuol shorpnessof picture. When using the monuol
operture mechonism, olwoys hove the outomotic
pre-set operture !'ing ot the full opening position,
otherwise internol outomotic mechonism will be
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Preporotlons
Set the film speed indi-
cotor to the speed of
the film being used. To
do this, lift up the outer
sensitivity ring of the
shutter diol ond turn.
ASA Indicator
Only the outer ring of the shutter diol con
be lifted ond turned. After l0 oppeors
in the indicotor, the diol connot be turned
ony further to the right. lf 800 oppeors,
the diol connot be turned ony further to the
lef t.
The film speed is noted on the film box or
in the instruction included the film box.
Sensitivities
A S A l 0 1 6 2 5 . 5 0 . 1 0 0 . 2 0 0 . 4 0 0 . 9 0 0
( 3 2 , 1 0 ) ( 6 4 , 8 0 ) ( 1 2 5 , 1 6 0 ) ( 2 5 0 , 3 2 0 ) ( 5 0 0 , 6 4 0 )
( t 6 , l 7 ) ( r 9 , 2 0 ) ( 2 2 2 3 ) ( 2 5 , 2 6 ) ( 2 8 , 2 9 )
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Decldlng the Shutter Speed (l)
Set the desired operture stop. Aim your
comero toword the obiect to be photo-
grophed.
Turn the shutter speed diol ond olign the
lens operture reoding with the needle.
Be sure to set the shutter diol in o click stop.
. When reoding the light meter, toke core
not to cover the photocells with the hond.
. The reoding of the operture stop is corried
out olong the guide line.
Decldlng the Aperture ot
Set the desired shutter
speed os recommended in . Guide
the fllm instruction. Point
the comero ot the obiect
to be photogrophed. Reod
the operture stop indicot-
ed by the exposure meter
needle ond set the outo-
motic pre-set operture ring
occordingly. Be sure to
reod corresponding posi-
tion of the zebro pottern
e d g e s .
Positions between numbers on the shutter
speed diol connot be used, but positions
between numbers on the operture ring
con be used. Consequently, in the strict
sense of correct exposure, it is strongly
recommended to set the shutter speed
first ond then odiust the lens operture
occordingly.
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Zero Adlustment of ExPosure
Adiust the exposure meter so thot the needle olwoys
points to "O" when the photocellsis covered.
Adlusrment Method
I . First, turn the zero odiustment cover
to the lef t ond remove (eosily
possible if o rubber plote is used.)
2. An odiustment pin with o groove
con be seen in the hole, so use o
screwdriver or stick to turn the
iin to the left or right so thot the
needle points to "O".
During this operotion, the photo-
cells must be completely covered.
Adlustmenl Angle
. When the bockground of the obiect being
photogrophed is very bright os in cose of
blue sky, there is the tendency thot the
moin obiect being photogrophed will be
' under-exposed if the photocells is foced too
f or upword. When reoding the exposure
meter, it is necessory to ovoid the comerq
from tilting upword.
. When shooting ogoinst the light, it is importont
to decide which to emphosize, the bockground
or the moin obiect, in order to determine the
exposure.
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. Almost entire picture thot will qppeor on the finished
film con be seen in the focusing gloss, so there will
be no porollox even if the lens is interchonged or the
distonce is oltered.
. When focusing, disregording the split-imqge method'
f or speciol ef f ects or under o certoin required situo-
tion, focus the subiect on the port outside the circle.
. A woist-level viewer con be ottoched to the eye-level
finder. The woist-level viewer is best suited for ultro
telephoto lens, copying work ond microphotogrophy.
ffiffiffiffi
4 kinds of odiustment
eyesight lenses ore ovoil-
oble for Cononflex RM.
It is recommended to
odopt suitoble one f or
those who weor glosses.
T h e y o r e + I . 5 , O ; - 2 . 5 ,
- 4 .
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Either dovlight looding film (film in cortridge) or
film loqded in speciol Conon Mogozine V con be
used.
I . Turn up the bock cover
opening key ond moke o
holf-turn to the left.
The film mogozine connot be
inserted unless the opening
k.y is in the complete open
position.
2. The bock cover will
floot up slightly, open door
completely the rest of the
w o y b y h o n d .
3. Lift up the rewind cronk
ond pull out the rewind
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4. Pull out the end of the
film ond insert fully into the
film toke-up spool. While
turning the flonge of the
spool slightly in orrow direc-
tion, hook the protuber-
once on the groove side
with the perforotion of the
film.
5. At this stoge, hove the
both sides of film perforo-
tions occurotely fit the teeth
of the sprocket. Also, if
there is slock in the film,
turn the rewind cronk slow-
ly to the right to remove
the slock.
6. Close the bock cover.
While pressing down the
bqck cover, turn the bock
cover opening key to the
right. The rewind cronk
should be f olded.
7. Keeping the lens cop
on, wind the film ond re-
leose the shutter twice.
8. The exposure counter
diol will be ot S (storting
point) position, but of ter
two blonk shots, it will in- ]ancrrlflex
d i c o t e 0 . T h e c o m e r o w i l l
be reod y f or toking pictures
when you wind the film for
the next shot, i.e. film
counter of No. I position.
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Fllm Speed lndlcotlon
After you hove looded rhe film,
show rhe film speed without foil in
the film speed indicotor window on
the shutter speed diol. Refer to
poge I in connection with film
speed.
Ghecklng Correcr
ond lncorrect loodlng
The rewind cronk will turn
eoch time the film is wound.
The turning of the rewind
t- cronk will show you thot the
film is being correctly wound .,.
up by the film toke-up spool. ,.it,
So when winding the film, #'
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f{olwoys wotch the rewind t .
cronk.
lf the rewind cronk does not turn, it meons thot
either the end of the film hos come loose from
the toke-up spool or the film perf orotions ore
not cought on the sprocket teeth. In such o
cose, refer to the section on rewinding the film
for toking out the film ond then ,,elooding the
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When you come to the end of the film, it will be hord to
wind the film ony more, so rewind the film bock into the cos:
sette (or mogozine) occording to the f ollowing steps.
l . A f t e r p r e s s i n gt h e f i l m r e -
wind releose button in the
bottom of the comero, roise
t h e r e w i n d c r o n k o n d t u r n t o
the right to wind film bock
i n t o t h e m o g o z i n e .
2 . A s s o o n o s t h e r e w i n d
releose button stops turning,
s t o p r e w i n d i n g .
At4f tfJe
3 . T u r n t h e b o c k c o v e r o p e n i n g
k e y t o t h e l e f t o n d o p e n t h e -**,..1$ ilfit
b o c k c o v e r .
4 . P u l l o u t t h e r e w i n d k n o b
c o m p l e t e l y o n d t o k e o u t t h e
cossette (mogozinet .
* O n c e y o u h o v e p r e s s e d t h e f i l m r e w i n d r e l e o s e b u t t o n , y o u
con remove your finger. The button will outomoticolly
return to its originol position when the film winding lever
i s w o u n d .
* Do not forget to ottoch the lens cop when rewinding the film.
* lf you f orcefully wind the film even of ter you hove reoched
the end of the roll of film, you moy cut the film, thereby
moking it impossible to rewind the film. In such o cose,
remove the film in o dork room.
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Wind the film, turn the self-timer lever
in the orrow direction ond press the
shutter button. The shutter will click
obout l0 seconds loter.
. Wind the self-timer lever more thon 213
of its complete turn.
. The time con be odiusted by the position
of the self-timer lever.
. The winding of the film con be corried
out ofter the self-timer lever hos been
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lf the Conon Flosh Unit V-2 is mounted to the
direct flosh connector socket, flosh photogrophy
con be corried out ot the shutter speeds shown
in the chort below. The speedlight (electronic
flosh) con be used with the Cononflex RM ot
1 / 60 sec. setting.
The time log of the flosh is outomoticolly odiusted
ot the time of setting the shutter speed diol.
The lens hood is necessory for flosh photogrophy.
Scope of Synchronlzcrtlon
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Mrvpuo o o I I l. i l.l.lol.lolol.l.
F Type o o o o o l.lolol.lololo
Q indicotes the bulb-shutter speed combinotions
thot will synchronize. O Mork meons it does not
synchronize. The 1/ 60 sec. position is used f or rrx" contoct. As the light quontity of the extro
smoll flosh bulbs is very smoll, choose o speed
s l o w e r t h o n 1 / 1 5 s e c . ,
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In order to remove the lens
f rom the comero, turn the
b o y o n e t r i n g o f t h e l e n s
counter clockwise ond then
p u l l o u t t h e l e n s . W h e n
yov mount the lens, motch
t h e r e d m o r k o n t h e l e n s
to the red mork on the
mounting port of the comero
o n d i n s e r t t h e l e n s . T u r n
t h e b o y o n e t r i n g c l o c k w i s e
t o s e c u r e t h e l e n s t o t h e
c o m er o .
N { a t c h t h e r e d m a r k
a n d t h e p i n
I n t h e b o c k e n d o f t h e l e n s ,
t h e r e o r e t h e c h o r g i n g l e v e r
ond operoting lever of the
o utomotic pre-set dio-
ph rogm.
When ottoching the lens,
chorge this lever before ot-
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lf on unchorged lens is ottoched
to the comero which hos olreody
been wound, the outomotic pre-
set operture system will not work
for the first shot. Of course, the
outomotic pre-set will operote
from the second shot.
" When removing the lens, toke
core not to touch the mirror
with the finger. A lso , if the
lens is to be removed f or o
long time, cover both the Charging Lever
comero ond lens mount with
cops or covers.
Smoll bubbles in the lens will reduce the brightness by
I /50 O-l / I 000, but it will hove no odverse effects
on toking pictures ond on the shorpness of the finished
picture.
Dlstonce Scole
The distonce scole indicotes the distonce between the focused
obiect ond the film surfoce. lt is not obsolutely necessory
for ordinory photogrophy, but it is needed for checking the
depth of field, for infrored ond flosh photogrophy. On the
distonce scole, the exoct positions ore the center of the
number for single digit numbers, the point midwoy between
two numbers for two digit numbers ond the middle number
for three digit numbers.
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Accident double exposure is not possible with the Cononflex
RM becouse of the double exposure preventive device. How-
ever, double exposure con be mode by the following steps:
l. Af ter the first exposure, press
the film rewind releose button.
2 . W h i l e w o t c h i n g t h e d o t o n t h e
film rewind releose button, turn
t h e r e w i n d c r o n k .
3 . S t o p r e w i n d i n g w h e n t h e d o t
show s 3/4 of o turn.
4 . L i g h t l y h o l d t h e r e w i n d c r o n k
o n d w i n d t h e f i l m w i n d i n g l e v e r .
When you feel resistonce in the
r e w i n d c r o n k , r e l e o s e i t .
5 . T h e n c o r r y o u t r e g u l o r f i l m Y4 of a turn w i n d i n g .
6. lf you repeot the obove pro-
c e d u r e s , y o u c o n m o k e o s m o n y
e x p o s u r e so s y o u p l e o s e o n o n e
f r o m e .
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I n e x t r e m e l y c o l d o r e o s , o v o i d e x p o s i n g c o m e r o
e x c e p t w h e n o c t u o l l y t o k i n g p i c t u r e s . l t i s
desiroble to complete photogrophy os quickly
os possible to protect the comero.
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Depth of Fleld Scole The depth-of-field scole shows ihe ronge of distonce in feet which will be in shorp focus ot eoch operture setting. Ronge will vory with the F-stop chosen. The lorger the lens operture, the lesser will be the depth-of-field. For exomple, with on F-stop of 5.6, ond with the obiect you hove focused on ot 5 m ( 1 5 f t . ) , y o u r c o m e r o w i l l g i v e y o u o s h o r p p i c t u r e f r o m o p p r o x i m o t e l y 3 . 7 m ( 1 2 . 3 f t . ) t o 7 . 8 m t . 2 6 f t . ) o w o y f r o m the comero. At F I I you will get o shorp picture f rom 2.g m ( 9 . 7 f t . ) t o 1 7 m ( 5 6 . 7 f t . ) ( p l e o s e s e e i l l u s t r o r i o n ) . The versotile Super Conomotic Lens hos o feoture which enobles you to see the octuol shorpness through the viewfinder eyepiece by monuolly rototing the monuol operture ring.View original page 30
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conon lenses ore held in the highest esteem by pro-
f essionols ond discerning omoteurs the world over
for their unmotched performonce in block ond white
or color, Urique opticol design, precision engineering
ond conon-exclusive spectro-cooting. conon pio-
n e e r e d d e v e l o p m e n t o f h i g h - s p e e d l e n s e s . . . o p e n i n g
up o new lone in photogrophic versotility to mony
serious photogrophers. Every Conon lens is thoroughly
tested to insure the highest resolution, controst,
b r i l l i o n c e , o n d c o l o r f i d e l i t y . I n t e r c h o n g e o b l e l e n s e s
for Cononflex extend the
r o n g e t o o s l o n g o s 1 0 0 0
m m F l l . . . l l l e n s e si n
o l l .
The Super Conomotic
L e n s e sh o v e f u l l y o u t o m o t i c
s p r i n g b o c k d i o p h r o g m . A s
the shutter is releosed,
the diophrogm closesdown
to the pre-selected oper-
ture stop, ond returns to
full-opening view instont-
l y . . . t h u s , y o u v i e w w i t h
f u l l b r i g h t n e s so t o l l t i m e s .View original page 32Page 33 · Read text
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Conon Fllters
Conon filters ore mode of s o l i d , s p e c i o l l y s e l e c t e d o p t i c o l
gloss, polished opticolly flot ond cooted hord on both surfoces.
Conon fi lters ore mode w ith t h e s o m e p r e c i s i o n c o r e o s t h e
C o n o n c o m e r o s o n d l e n s e s . Screw-in fllters for Cononflex ore
o v o i l o b l e i n s i z e s o f 4 0 , 4 8 , o n d 5 8 m m i n d i o m e t e r d e p e n d i n g
o n t h e l e n s s i z e .
F o r B l o c k o n d W h i t e For Color
U V U l t r o V i o l e t CCA Color Conversion A
Y I L i g h t Y e l l o w CCB Color Conversion B
Y 3 Y e l l o w S k y S k y l i g h t
O I O r o n g e
R I R e d N D 4 N e u t r o l D e n s i t y ( X 4 )
G I G r e e n ND8 Neutrol De nsity ( x 8 )
Projection Fllm Mogozlne
( A v o i l o b l e s e p o r o t e l y o s o n S t opper
o c c e s s o r y . )
H o l d s u p t o 3 6 e x p o s u r e s
(five feet) of film. Nickel
in block finish; scrotch-Proof
f i l m s l o t s . S u p p l i e d i n p l o s t i c
cose
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Bellows R
It hos wide usoge . . . in
close-ups, f ocusing of
long-telephoto ond ex-
tro-long-telephotoI enses,
copy work, microphoto-
g r o p h y , e t c . T h e B e l l o w s
R con be odiusted freely
e i t h e r v e r t i c o l l y o r h o r i -
zontolly by o lever thot
rototes 9 0 degrees.
T h e f o c u s i n g d e v i c e i s s p e c i o l l y d e s i g n e d t o o s s u r e p r e c i s i o n
p e r f o r m o n c e i n t h e f o r w o r d o n d b o c k w o r d m o v e m e n t .
. W h e n t h e r o n g e f i n d e r t y p e c o m e r o l e n s e s o f f o c o l l e n g t h
longer thon 8 5 mm ore used, close-ups f rom infinity to l I
l i f e - s i z e o r e p o s s i b l e .
Comercr Holder R3
T o s t e o d y c o m e r o p o s i t i o n , t h i s h o l d e r i s u s e d c o n v e n i e n t l y
f o r e o s y o n d v e r s o t i l e c o p y w o r k . T h e h o l d e r h o s o t r i p o d
bush on two sides. The comero con be used in normol ond
inverted positions. Copy work con be done with comero on
h o l d e r o t t o c h e d t o o t r i p o d f o c i n g d o w n w o r d .View original page 34Related documents and language editions
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