CAVALIER 35mm Auto Reflex User manual

YOURS FOR PHOTO FUNC'CC

          THE SUPERB CAVALIER THE WORID'S FTRSI 35mm SINGIE
          IENS REFTEX ETECIRIC EYE CAMERA.

              Welconre 1o the growing fonrily of OVALltR,comero owners. This booklet
               hos been prepored to ossist you in leorning obout your CAVALIIR . We
              urge you to reod it very corefully.  . ond know thot you'll be pleoseo
                    crrrd omozed with your photogrophic prowess.
              PRO ' CAMERA FEAIURFS              I
                                 Your (AVAilER contoins mony feotures normolly found
                                    only in the expensive professionol 35mm instruments.
                                                         lt offers completely outomotic Electric Eye (EE) ope-
                                          rotion. no exposure problems. modern styling.
                                  Operotion is os simple os looking through the Ilnder
                            ond pressing the button. With correci {ocusing. your
                                            results will be excellent regordless of whether it's o
                                      routine photo. delicote exposure, telephoto or wide-
                    www.butkus.usongle. And your CAVAtIER is tops for color photos.

DUAL-PURPOSE CAMERA  ZI A
  AUTOMATIC AND MANUAI
   OPERAI'ON
   The flrst holf of  th is  instru ction s
    monuol will provide you with the
    necessory informotion for using the
     exclusive CAYAIIER EE system for outo-
     motic, trouble-free exposures. Reod
      it corefully.
   And if yours is ihe inventive rmind,
    the kind thot loves to experiment, we
    urge you to reod the second port
    of this monuol. This section deols
    with operoting your CAYAUTR monuol-
    ly..ollowing you to ochieve oll sorts
    of speciol effects in your piclure tok-
   ing. Toke your CAYALIER wherever
   you go.:it's loods of fun however
   you use  it  I

Shuffer releose button
Exposure mefer window
Exposure meter cell
EE operture monuol con-
 t rol
Shutter speed diol window
Synchro terminol
Viewfinder eyepiece
Cronk-type rewind
Comero strop hole
Exposure counter
Disfonce focusing diol ring
PEEROTAR lens-48mm F  'Threoded triood socket
Rewind releose bulton
Film Advonce lever
Bock cover lock ond (e-
leose hook
Threoded occessorv shoe
sockel

I  LOAD/NG YCUR CAV ALIER
O Oo not lood   f ilrn under bright light
cond ilio n s.
O Be sure lo rewind film fully.
(D Your (AVALIIR is o  precision  in-
strument; toke core not to drop  it
during the looding operotion.
O Fomiliorize yovrself with the lood-
ino instructions.
                                   Open bock cover by depressing Bock Cover
                                            Releose Lock (P) with your fingernoil. Cover
                                                       will spring open.





 Run lilm  sleoder over the  rirm-sprocket ond
  into foke-up spool.                              l:,n;;';. ?iin,,,'Ji'l*:, n:T:'l:,":J;
                            www.butkus.ussoool. Lock bock cover.

EE FOR BREATHTAK'NG COIOR PHOIOS  T





You con enioy ihe thrill of beouti{ul color   ditions, your progrommed EE system will reodi-
photos by simply odiusting the exposure meter   ly supply you with the knock of toking iop-
indicotor to the light sensitivity (ASA) volue   notch color pictu res.
of the color film. Becouse the exposure ronge  Note thot there ore two types of color {llms.
of o color fllm is not os wide os thot of   Color Reversol Film is used for moking colored
block-ond-white, your CAVAIIER exposure meter  35mm slides. Color Negotives ore used for
is on obsolute necessity.                      the normol color prints. (Either type con be
Providing strong light ond dork controsts ore   used for both purposes; however, from the
ovoided ond your color shooting is done os   stondpoint of economy ond results, the Color
much os possible under normol lighting www.butkus.uscon-   Reversol Film is most generolly recommended.)

RANGE WITH THE EE SYSIEMr  PHOTOGRAPHY

                      COUPLED RANGE OF FILM SENSITIVITY
                           The sensitivity is os indicoted in the ASA roting in-
                                  dicotor scole. Your EE system is in operotion when,
                                looking through the viewfinder, the exposure meter
                               needle moves in between the red signol mork ond the
                                key-type indicotor: of the coupled light sensitivity scole.





                                                                                 EE sysiem       Photogrophic    ro n9e   of  the  EE                     Photog ro Phi c ronge of the
      sysiem with ASA 2OO (DlN 2a) film.                  with ASA 25 (DlN l5) film.

S HUT IFR SPTFD AND A PERIURT RANGEI  COMB/NAI/CN

You moy continue shooting os long os the
exposure meter needle (seen through the view-
finder) is wiihin the EE ronge. The moximum-
minimum ronge of the shutter speed-operture
combingtion will be {rom F     ot li30th to                           '2.8F ,22 ot )/25Oth of o second. Simply reod
the exoct informotion to find the correct com-
binotion.
Since the EE system is limited to the two com-
binotion ronges speci{led obove, you will wont
1o become thoroughly fomilior with the monuol
operoting procedure for lhe utmost lotiiude
with your oll-purpose GVALIER    .





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x Send in your color fllm for developing os soon os
                                                        possible ofter the roll is exposed.
                                                    * Your CAVAIIIR ond its exposure meter ore sensitve  in-
                                                    struments. Core should be ioken to ovoid shocks
{                                           ond dropping  il.
                                                   * Should some minor difficulty develop in yovr CAYAIIER  i
  I                                       do not.ottempt to repoir it yourself. Toke it  bock
t  I SOME WORDS OF ADVICE            to your comero deoler for repoir by o speciolist. In                                                             foct, you will flnd your comero deoler a very helpful
                                          ond knowledgeoble source for informotion ond photo
    Even with the best of comeros, such os you(        tips.
    CAVAIIER with its superb PEERoTAR lens system,                                                   * Don't expect o moslerpiece from one exposure. The   comero vibrotion during shooting will result in
   o ruined picture. Even though shutter speed     best o{ pros will try out ony number of exposures to
     is limited to 1/30th to sofeguord ogoinst slight     ochieve desired results.
     vibrolions, core musl be token to hold ond   * Don't depress fhot shutter button until you're pleosed
     position comero firmly during shooting. Hold                                                    with the composition through the viewfinder. Com-    your comero snugly with the thumb, index ond                                                            position con "moke-on-breok" o picture.    middle fingers os shown in the photo obove.
                                        x During your get-oquointed session with your CAYAIIER   Do not iomb the shutter releose button down  ;
    insteod, depress it gently with o smooth, no'                     film for good sensitiviry ond perform-
    turol finger movement.               www.butkus.us:r"".":rd'."ry

Your (AVALIER serves o duol function; it moy be used either under the outo-
             system or by monuol operotion. As mentioned eorlier, you will  un- I  motic IE    doubtedly wont to expenmenr, ro try unusuol lighting effects. Too, wiih
    monuol control, more delicoie exposure odiustments moy be ochieved. I
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I MANUAT SHUIIER AND
                   APERTURE CONIROT

                     To chonge from EE to monuol opero-
                                iion  disennnne  the  outOmotic  EE
                       mechonism by rototing ihe  letter  A
                      on lhe  diophrogm  ring.   This woy
                       you moy  select ony  operture  ond
                              shutter speed combinotions.  The dis-
                        connected exposure meter moy be
                       used os  o  guide    on   exclusive
                         CAVALIER feoture.

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      EilffiAUTO OPERATION


Monuol operotion is possible even if the oper-    For exomple,  even  if the shutfer speed  is
lure is fully opened ond it is desiroble to  set    dropped there  is no opprecioble effect. Thus.
the shutter speed ot the moximum of  1/300th.        it moy be very odvonlogeous to use o smoller
With the EE system, however, only the fixed [:     operture when  ochieving depth focusing of  o
5.5 ot l,/50th is possible.           www.butkus.usgiven subiect.

I  SYNCHRONIZED PHOTOGRAPHY

                       The CAYAIIIR synchro contocr
                                     is X; thus, strobe con be set
                             to oll monuol shutier speeds.
                        With M  closs flosh bulbs,
                           monuol shutter speeds should
                        be below  I /60th.    I /30th  is
                              best for sofe ond  f ull synchro-
   Moke certoin synchro cord  is    correctly connected.                n izotion.
                         Becouse synchro contoct  is.
                             ot X, doytime synchronizotion
                             requires high speed odiusr-
                            ment ond strobe must be used.
                         The exposure setting for this
                                    is determined by dividing rhe
                            guide number of the electric
                                 flosh bulb used ond the pic-
   Flosh-gun con be secured on     ture distonce. Set the oper-  occessory shoe mounied lo  come ro.                      ture monuolly ot the colculot-
                       ed figure

I  CAR/NG FOR YOUR CAVALIER
    Use o speciol brush or blower to  keep
     conrero lens ond  boci ,  {ree of  {oreign
     motter   t\,loisture ond finger morks should
    be wrped gentl.  w,ith o moist cloth, then
      conroletel,' drieo rn o shoded oreo.


I  SIOR/NG YOUR CAVALIER
    Avoid eytrenre heot ond  high  humiditu
    conditions  Since the  leother cose ob-
    scrbs nrorsture,  it is weli  to remove the
    comero {rom its cose during periods  o{
      i-iqr, l-umidit,.  Durino this time,  it is most
       co'. iscble lo store ll'e comero in o dresser
     e,o!\e. or o similcr spot.  For best pro-
     iection, pock rt in o  vin,,, I bog with moi's-
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