MAMIYA 4B 35mm User manual

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 @ Film Speed Ring      @ Accessory Clip
 @ Focusing Ring       @ Rewinl Knob
 @ Shutter Speed Ring     @ Viewfinder
 @ Exposure Volue Window   @ Synchro-flosh Socket
 @ Lens Setting Ring      @ Bock Cotch                  I
 @ Exposure Meter Window   @ Rewind Releose Button
 @ Exposure Button      @ Tripod Socket
 @ Erposure Counter Diol    @ Viewflnder Eyepiece
 @ Film Wind Lever                                                                                                                   t
 @ Exposure Meter Scole                                              {
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ions corefully
with your comero  . . . before you go on o trip or toke
eciol event, try o proctice cortridge of film
J neckstrop cleor of lens ond exposure meter window                                                                                         l
nero from dust, dirt ond rough hondling
comero or film to excessively high temperotures, such os
:losed outomobile under o hot sun
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fmero with cocked shutter... this ploces unnecessory tension               d'
rechonism (ofter lost picture of the doy, don't odvonce Film
re is obsolutely no donger of o double exposure since the
dvonced before the Exposure button will work)
ilm processed promptly for best results

Turn the Film Speed Ring (A) to the ASA rurrrrg of the film in use. (Grosp
   the smoll bution olongside the ring ond turn the ring until the correct ASA
   number is opposite the button). Unless the ASA setting is mode, the shutter
  speed ond lens opening settings will be incorrect. The exposure index
   number of ony film you use con be found in the instructions included with
   the film.

  Set the Shutter Speed Ring (C) ot the setting recommended in the fllm in-
   structions. Simply turn the ring until ihe recommended number is opposite
   the white morker. Moke sure the ring is firmly set ot o click stop.
  "50" (1/6s-second) is the shutter speed recommended for normol oction ond
                            l/zro-second   poses with most film;             for oction.
7 Pbint the comero ot your subiect, moking sure thot nothing blocks the Ex-
  posure Meter Window (F). Look ot the Exposure Meter Scole (K) ond note
  the number the needle indicotes.

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       4 Turn the Lens Setting Ring (E) until the yellow exposure volue number ob-
             toined in Step 3 oppecrs in the Exposure Volue Window (D).
             Thot's oll there is to itl  The ovriloble light hos now been meosured onj
ii           you've set your comero for on occurote exposure, with no guesswork in-
              volved.
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                  lf you w:nt to know the  f :stop ot which yorrr comero is ncw set, simcly
lt',          look ot the colored number oppcsite the white mrrker on the Lens Settingtill           Ring (E).
                  lf you find thct the Lens Setting Ring (E) con't be turneC for enough to oliow
           the correct number to oppeor  in the Exposure Volue Window (D), shift the
             Shutter Speed Ring (C) to o  higher or lower setting. lf, ofter trying this
             oCiustment, the correct setting  still connot be mode, then light is insufficient
           to obtoin good pictures with  the film being used.
           Note: When shooting ot o lower shutter speed ("30", ".|S", ,'8", ,,4" or',B") use
         o tripod or other firm support to prevent comero movement which blurs the picture.

holding




The illustrotions show two
woys of holding the com-
ero. When You're reodY                                              A
to toke the Picture, hold
the comero steodY ond
gently press the ExPosure                                                                                                        'l
Button (G) oll the woy
down. AlwoYs moke sure
the neckstroP ond Your
fingers ore cleor of the
lens ond the ExPosure
Meter Window  (F).

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       viewing qnd focusing

           Bright-frome Outline
        As you look through the Vievqfinder Eyepiece (T), note the colored lines of the
            bright-frome outline. These lines indicote the limits of the picture ond only obiects
            inside the lines will oppeor in your picture.
         Note the porollox indicotor (right-ongle mork) in the upp'er left hond corner of
  t         the bright-frome outline. When shooting close-ups of five feet or less, keep the
  \         subieci within the limits indicoted- by this mork.                                                                'i'
 I           ff:':'J:'   colored circle in rhe center of the bright-frome outline is the coupled
           rongefinder imoge. This guides you to o precise focus on your subiect. Jusi
N          turn the Focusing Ring (B) until the two rongefinder imoges merge into one. Or,
w               if you prefgr, estimoie the distonce ond turn the Focusing Ring (B) until the
           estimoted disionce is opposite the white morker. Pleose note thot there is  cr
w           "rneter" scole for convenience when using in other countries (l meter equolsK$
N          opproximotely 3rf a feet). The oo mork indicotes  infinity.

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With your comero focused on the sub[ect, look ot the depth of field dots iust
behind the distonce morkings on the Focusing Ring (B). Note thot the dois
ore color-coded to motch the vorious f:siop numbers on the Lens Setting Ring
(E). For instonce, fr8 is yellow. Therefore, the two yellow dots iust behind
the Focusing Ring indicote the depth-of-field limits for  f ,8.  The distonce
opposite the dot on the left indicotes the "neqr" limit of the depth of field.
The distonce opposite the some colored dot on the right indicotes the "for"
limit of the depth of field.
Exomple:
The Lens Setting Ring (E) is set ot f '8. The Focusing Ring (B) is set on " lnfinity."The depth of field dots indicote depth of field is from l5 feet to infinity.
Therefore, oll obiects forther thon l5 feet  f rom your coffiero v.,ill be shorp
in the picture.

unlocrding


   Before comero is opened, film must be rewound.

     Alwoys unlood your comero in subdued light
    To rewind film                                                                       '

                                                                       (R).              I  Push in Rewind Releose Button
       2 Pull up ihe hondle on the Rewind Knob (M) ond turn knob in the
               direction indicoted by the curved orrow until o lessening of tension
               indicotes the film is rewound.
    Open bock of comero ond pull up the Rewind Knob to remove the film
     mogozine... your film is now reody for processing
     Depressed Rewind Releose Button (R) will return to its originol position
    when the Film Wind Lever (J) is operoted

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lmportont: lf, ot end of roll of film the Film Wind Lever ioms port woy through
               its stroke, do not force. Push in the Rewind Releose Button to free
            lever so its stroke con be completed.
                  lf iommed lever is forced, the fllm moy breok or become detoched
            from the cortridge.  lf this should hoppen, the comero must be opened
             in the dorkroom if fllm is to be soved.

 flcrsh picfures

Your comero's shutter mechonism  is synchronized to ollow use of either flosh
bulbs or electronic flosh. Simply  plug the connector cord of your flosh unit into
the Synchro-flosh Socket (O) ond ottoch the unit to the Tripod Socket (S) or
Accessory Clip  (L).
For lens ond shutier speed  settings, follow the instructions with your film, flosh
bulbs or flosh unit.
Do not ottempt to use the        Exposure Meter for flosh pictures.

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filters        screw-in type, diometer 40.5 mm.



 For speciol effects ond color correction, filters ore essentiol. Londscope photo-
grophy with blue sky ond cloud effects, seosides shots, ond picture of plont
 life, oll coll for filters.

 Filters for block ond white film
.SL  (pole pink) mokes outdoor pictures cleorer
.UV  (pole yellow) brings out the most noturol color
 .Y2  (yellow) brings out clouds
 '02  (dork oronge) mokes blue subiects ore renderd dorker  .
.YG  (yellow green) for moking outdoor portroits, flowers ond flesh tones
      more noturol

locrding



 Alwoys lood your comero in subdued light.
 Use ony type of 35 mm film, color or block ond
 white.

         I To open comero fo.r looding, push up the Bock
        Cotch (P).
    2 Push up Rewind Knob (M) by" pushing up shoft
         inside comero. . Plqce film cortridge into
        comero (protruding end down) ond push down
       on Rewind Knob. Turn knob slightly until ii
         snops into ploce

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3 Advonce the Film Wind Lever (J) until the slit in the film toke-up spool
    is on top. Pull the topered end of the film ocross the comero bock ond
    insert it into the toke-up spool  slit.
   Use your finger to keep film tout os you wind it by turning the spool
   or by odvoncing the Film Wind Lever. Before closing the comero, odvonce
   the Film Wind Lever once or twice to moke sure the fllm perforotions
   ore engoging the sprocket wheels. (Depress the Exposure Button (G) ofter
   eoch full stroke of the Film Wind Lever).
4 Shut bock of comero ond moke sure it locks securely.
                                                                        (stort). 5 Turn the Exposure Counter Diol (H) to "S"
6 Advonce the Film Wind Lever twice, depressing the Exposure Button eoch
   time. Advcnce the lever once more ond the Exposure Counter Diol is
   outomoticolly set ot.." 1 " ond you're reody to toke your first picture. The
   diol moves one mork eoch time you odvonce  the film ond indicotes how
  mony exposures hove been mode.
Note: After the slock hos been token up in   f he fllm  cortridge, the Rewind Knob
    should turn eoch time you odvonce the Film Wind Lever. This provides o check
   on whether or nol your film is winding properly.