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MamiyaFlex Automatic User manual
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- Mamiya
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- MamiyaFlex Automatic
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- User manual
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- English
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- 16
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I . Front Ponel
2. Finder lmoge Mqgn:ifier
3. Film-Winding & Shutter-Cocking Knob
4. Film Frome Indicotor
5. Depth of Focus Scole
6. Focussing Knob
7. Shutter Trip Bqr
8. Trip Bor Sofety Cotch
9. Socket for Cqble Shutter Releose .|0. Lens Stops Contr:ol Diol
I I . Shutter Speed Control -Diol
12. Bqck-Lid Lock Cotch
13. Toke-up Spool Holding Stud
14. Film Spool Holding Stud
I 5. Term ino I for synchro-Flosh Attoch ment
1,3. Exposure Tqb!e
17. Bock-Lid Ponel
I B. Film Pressure Plote
(Fig.
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GENERAL
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THIS BOOKLET is o monuol for users of the MAMIYAFLEX Automoiic,
precisioncomero.TheMAM|YAFLEXAutomoticissowel|designedondbui|t
thot onyone con toke photogrophs eosily, quickly ond without mistokes. But if
you wont to get reolly good pictures, reod these instructions ond moke full use
of the mony ingenious feotures incorporoted in this superb instrument.
The MAMIYAFLEX Automotic is o super-precision outomotic comero using
120 roll film (Brownie size). lt tokes l2 pictures of 2)/art x2Y+tt (6 cm. x 6 cm.)
on eoch roll of film. The speciol MAMIYAFLEX construction permits you to see
o full picture'size view of your shot, right side Up, on o ground gloss screen,
before, while ond ofter you moke the exposure. This feoture mokes the
:MAMIYAFLEX Automotic the best comero with which good, shorp ond cleor
photogrophs con be obtoined with the minimum of effort ond skill. All controls
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ore so orronged thoi the comerb con be monipuloted in o noturol efforttess woy i
with the left hond entirely free to hold the instrument steody with o flrm grip. /:
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Alf settings ore visible from obove of q glonce. A simple turn of o knob
winds the film ond cocks the shutter in one operotion, so pictures con be token
in ropi,d succession with no feor of double or blonk exposures.
FltM for the MAM|YAFIEX
The MAMIYAFLEX Automotic wifl toke any stondord nroke of bfock ond
white or color' fif m of the 120 (Brownie) size. Eoch rofl of film is sufficient
for 12 exposures.
irs'{'5 Srit
toADlNG the MAMtYAFtEx wirh FftM
' I . Disengoge Bock-Lid Lock cotch
( 1 2) ond open up Bock-Lid poner (1r).
2. Pull our Spool Srud (1 4), ploce
the film in Film Chomber (20),firting rhe
grooved ena of the spool to spool stud
(l 4). The spool clips in by irself.
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3. Remove poper seol of
fi lm roli o nd pu | | out enoug h
of the poper leoder to reoch
Toke-Up Spool ( I 9.) Insert
end of poper leoder in slot
of Toke-Up Spool. (The block
side of the poper leoder shouid
foce the interior of the comero.)
Check to see if fi lm will be (Fig. 5) (Fig, 6)
token up properly by giving
the Film-Winding Knob o little twisr. (rig. 0) In doing rhis, ihe Film-Winding
Knob moy hoppen to stop, but it is not o defect. Close the Bock-Lid Ponel,
the Knob ogoin runs free. Then lood the film.' 4. Close Bock-Lid ond lock. When this is done, the figure " O " will
outomoticolly oppeor in Film Frome indicotor Window (4).
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5. Turn Film-Winding Knob (3) until it siops. Now everything is reody
for exposing fhe first frome on the film: the Fiim Frome Indicotor shows " 1 "
ond the shutter is in cock.
6. Disengoge sofety Cotch (8).
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FIIM TAKE-UP
When the shutter is tripped ond on exposure is mode, the Film-Winding
Knob is outomoticolly releosed. Turn the Knob until it stops, the exposed
frome will be token Up, the shutter will be recocked ond the Film Frome
Indicotor will show the next number.
UNTOADING FILM
t. When 12 pictures hove been token, thus exposing the enlire roll of
film, the Film-Winding Knob is freed. Keep winding until oll of the poper leoder
is token up.
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pull out Spool Stud (13) ond remove exposed roll of film..provided,
3. Tronsfer empty spool to Toke-Up posirion (l g).
4. Close Bock-Lid ond lock. The Film Frome lndicotor wilt hove returned
to "O".
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TAKING PICTURES WITH THE MAMIYAFTEX
In photogrophY, there ore three things to which ottention must be given:
I ) Distonce . 2) Exposure Time 3) lens opening I
Then, for obtoining o reolly good picture, the subiect motter must be
)properly composed to fit into the frome.
The MAMIYAFLEX Auiomotic deo ls with distonce ond composition in o
most ingenious woy : Focus is checked by the shorpness of the imoge on the
ground gloss screen, which olso is exoctly os it will oppeor in the finished
print. Depfh of Focus the ronge within which shorp imoges of the objects -in the picture field will be regisfered, depending on the stopping of the lens
opening is outomoticolly indicoted by the Depth of Focus Scole (St. -
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(Fig. 7) (Fig.8) (Fig. 9)
OPENING AND CLOSING THE FOCUSSING I.IOOD :
The Focussing Hood snops into position by holding up the Front Ponel (l)
Frontof it. The Mognifier will spring into position when pulled out. The
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Frome. When closing the Hood; Push the Finder
Frome slight'ly bockwords, ond the Frome will be
closed outomoiicolly, ofter pressing down the Mogni-
fier, the Focussing Hood foids itseif when pressed down.
FOCUSSING :
l. Holding the MAMIYAFLEX Automotic , Moni-
pulotion of oll the controls is done with the right
hond; so the left hond shouid be used to suppp!,t
ond hold the comero.(Fig. ?)
2. Troin the comerq on the subiect motter,
look down on ground gloss sc!"een. The imoge of
(Fis. lo) the subiect motter will be seen proiected on the screen..
3. With the thumb ond middle finger of the right hond, iurn ihe Focussing
Knob (6) ond bring fhe screen imoge into shorp focus. Push down Sofety cotch
(A) to releose Shutter Trip Bor.-., The right forefinger will be resiing lightly on
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the Shutter Trip Bor, reody to"releose the shutter
ot ony instqnt without shiftinn 1f',"'hond frorn
the con f rois. (f ig. l 0)
When the shutter is tripped ohd on exposure
is mode, it goes without soying thot the two other
essentio ts Exposure Time ond Lens Aperture - Stopping hove olreody been ottended to.
4. When speciol ly sharp focussing must \
be dor,e, the Innoge Mognifier (2) is used.
(Fig. I I ) The eye shouid. be broughf down os close os
possib le to the g loss.
o picture with the Ey" l-evel View Finder, the comero
'fim ust rst be f ocused by using either the groundgloss or by estimoting thg
footoge ond sefting the indicotor on the Focussing Knob. The Finder shoufd be
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SHUTTER SPEEDS AND IENS 5TOP5 :
with fhe MAMfYAFLEX Automotic the setting of shutter speeds ond lens
stops con be done without shifting the hord on the comero.
r. shu*er speeds, The shutfer speeds (eurb, 1,,1 12, 115, 1110, 1,25,
'1f 50' lllOO' 1 250, ond 1;'500 sec.) ore set by turning the shutter control Dio|(ll)fothedesiredreoding.(tot1,l500it
tt not oou'too,u to .nonuu tn*t'nnFr, *"
stoted,theshuttei.isoutomotl.olly*tKnob.isturned tI
flome inro posirion. The cobre Rereose socket,v.\vt (e)\/ / .:,"T.:"0provided::":l: 5:::beneoth the shutter Trip Bor enobles you to use both cobfe releoseond self-timer.
2. Lens Aperture Sfops : Lens opening is controfed by the Lens Stops
Control Diol (10). Lens speeds con be voried from F 3.5 ro F 22.
3. Notice , When ref eosing f he shutter of the unlooded MAMIyAFLEX
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Automotic, the sh utter m ust be releosed ofter
Film- one complete revolution or more of the
Winding Knob.
FTASH PHOTOGRAPHY with the
MAMIYAFTEX
The MAMIYAFLEX Automotic is fitted with
synchro nizing mechonism. o precision flosh
specio I There is theref ore no need for o
FLASH synchronlzer; ond when the MAMIYA
done EQU IPMENT is used, o ll thot need be
is to connect the synchronizing leod wire to (Fig. 12)
the Synchro-Flosh Terminol (l 5). (Fig. 12)
Other flosh ottochments ovoiloble on the morket moy be used witlr slight
modificotions to end of the wire leod.
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synchronizotioh is obtoined ot shutter speeds of less thon 1 25 sec6nd, with
the some eose' of operotion os when using the comero olone. Experiments
hove shown thot speeds of up to 11250 ore possible with the combinotion of
the MAMIYAFLEX ond the MAMIYA FLASH EQUIPMENT. Bur since rhere ore
irregulorities in floshrbulbs ond botteries, the upper limit of ll25 second wos
selected in order to eliminote ony possibility of foilure.
WHEN NOT IN ACTUAT USE
l. Before closing cover of the MAMIYAFIEX field cose, it is odvisoble to
return Sofety Cotch to sofety position, then withdrow the tens-shutter ossembly
i.by turning the focussing knob to infinity (-).
2. core should be exercised not to lose the doubre lens cop which ofiords
protection to the cooted lens ogoinst scrotches, dust ond moisture.
MAMIYAFTEX ACCESSORI ES
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