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LENTAR PR-66 User manual
User manual for LENTAR PR-66. 9 pages in English. Read the original PDF, download or print a copy without registration.
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- Lentar
- Model / document
- LENTAR PR-66
- Document type
- User manual
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 9
- File size
- 0.7 MB
- Category
- Film cameras
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TENTAREXPOSUREMETERMODEI PR.66
HOW TO USE LENTAR MODET PR.-66
l. Turn the ASA/DIN setting koob until the index numberof the film looded -
in your comero oppeoresin the ASA/DIN index window. Film speed
rotings ore furnishedon instruction sheet pocked with stondord of film.
2. Pointingthe meter ot the subiect,press the ON/OFF switch,the pointer
will swing to the right ond when it hos come to o complete stop, motch
the pointer with the upper guide,pointerby turning the outer diol.
3. You mo), now set your comero by using ony combinofionof lens opening i
(f-stops) ond shutter speedsos indicoted.
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4.lf yovr comero is colibrotedin the EV-LVSscole,reod the numberin the
EV windowonly.
I 5. For movie,reod only the F-stop correspondingto the number of fromes
per second.
6. The type of picture )rou ore toking should be consideredin selecting the
shutter speed ond lens opening.For exomple;on oction picture requires o
foster shufter speed.A ocenic shot needsgreoter depth of focus which is
obtoinoblefhrough o smoller lens opening(lorgef-stop number).View original page 4Page 5 · Read text
Checking rhe bottery
Undernormolcondition,the mercurybottery (Mollory RM-625 or equivolent)
suppliedwith the meter hos o life I t to 2 yeors. Check the condition of
the bottery from time to time os follows;press the Bottery CheckerButton
on f he bock of the cose without, however,touching the ON /OFF switch. lf
the bottery is good,the pointer will rest on the B.C. mork, But if the poin-
ter stops short of the B.C. mork, the bottery strength is insufficientto reoch
the correct meosurementond must be reploced.
To reploce the bottery, turn the bottery comportmentcop on the bock of
the cose to "O" mork. Insert o fresh cell wifh the plus(*) mork focing
outword ond check it os describedobove.
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3. CdS photo cell
Botter.y comportment cop
4. Pointer
5. Guide pointer
6. Bottery checker mork
ff=-- e. ASA/DIN seffing knobi
| 4. Zero odiustmentcontrol screwView original page 6Page 7 · Read text
Zero Point Adiustment
Occosionollyyour rneter moy need odlustment. When checking f he pointer
zero control,do not press fhe ON/OFF switch.The pointer should then come
to rest on the zero index ot the extreme left of the meter (OFF position),
if not, set fhe pointer to the zero index by turning the Zero Adiustment
Control Screw (locoted ot the bocksidemeter) either clockwiseor counter-
clockwise.
Mointenonce
The Model PR-66 is o high precision instrument ond should be hondled with
core. Avoid sudden shock ond exreme moisture prolong the life of your meter.
No other mointenonce is needed sove on ocosionol bottery replocement ond
zero poini odiustment.
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