Minolta Autocord III User manual

Attoching the Neck Strop


                                  To ottoch the neck strop
This new, improved locking neck
slrop is guoronteed to hold your
Autocord  lll Comero in perfecl sofe-
ly.  lt connot slip or releose occi-
dento lly.
To oitoch the neck strop
 | . Depress the upper bullon of the
   strop-cotch. Keeping  it depress-
   ed, push lhe lower bulion lo-
   words lhe upper butlon.
2. Hold fhe slrop cotch verticolly     To remove the neck strop    #l   ond inserl fhe stud into lhe hole
   of the locking grip on the
   comero.
3. Pull the slrop-cotch until you
   heor if click into locked posilion.
To remove the neck strop
4. Depress lhe upper bullon.
5. Keeping il depressed, push lhe
    strop-cotch downword. When il
   stops, simply lift off the slrop-
    cotch.

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                         comero is especiolly* Your Minolto Aulocord  lll
   designed to use i2C fllm q 1 2 exposures ) ond 220
   fllm \24 expcsures).  lt is equipped on exclusive
   pressure plote ond frome counting mechonism for
   the new 220 ttln os well os the ordinory 120 fllm.
   Therefore, before. looding film, pleose reod poge
   l5 for   f ull instruclions.





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Finder





Toke off the lens cop, lifting     2.  Genlly roise fhe   viewfinder     3. To use the mognifier, push the
it up by the lower section,         hood, os shown in the picture.           sporls finder flop by its upper
then fwisting to lhe right.                   It  outomoticolly  snops inlo         edge. Then the mognifier will
                                               position.                                 spring up.

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3. For Sports Finder





   Push the sporls finder  flop oll       2.  The obiecf os seen within the     3.  Press the flop releose  button
   lhe woy down.  li  will foll                          f ront of  the    f rome when          io reiurn the flop in o normol
  downword ond stop  with o        viewed through the direct             position.
   cligk, providing the   sports          viewer is lhe some os fhe lens
                                                      ttsegs."    finder.


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3. When ihe diophrogm lever is moved up ond down, F stop numbers 3.5, 4, 5.6, B, 11, 16, 22 oppeor in the
    f-window on the top of the viewing lens.
   As lhe diophrogm lever is moved, lhe exposure volue (EV) is outomoticolly indicoted ond con be utilized
   when using fhe Exposure Volue System (see poge 25).



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5. Relotion between Diophrogm ond Amounf of tight



Diaphragm                             B          3.5   4   5.6                                               tl    f6   22
                      (:)                gF gF                                  {:}                 s3 fF       $Amount of light          1                    t/v      1.3   %  %  %    ,/16    ,/32

The diophrogm indicotor, 3.5, 4, 5.6, B, ll,  16, 22, shows the size of the operfure opening. lts figures indicote
lhe omount of light lhot reoches lhe film fhrough lhe operture in lhe proportion os drowing.
When lhe shuller is releosed ol the speed of  1 /25C second with f 4 diophrogm opening, or exposed with f 5.6
ot 1/125 second, the omount of light reoching fhe film results the some.
Besides controlling lhe omount of light enfering lhrough the lens, fhe diophrogm olso determines the deplh-of-field.
(See poge 35 for the depth-of-fleld.)



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Focus ond frome your subiect on the viewfinder.
Determine exposure, then set both Ciophrogm ond
shuiter speed.
Select oppropriote F number depending on your sub-
iect. Remember Ciophrogm determines the depth-of-
fleld. (For exomple, set ciiophrogm to  f B or f   ll
for o subiect thot need deeper d"pth-cf-field.)





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Use 120 or 220 film. (NOTE , 620 film spool
not fif on this comero.)
I .  Pull the bock cover opening knob. Then  the
    bock cover will snop out.

Pull ond furn the toke-up spool knob. The knob        3.  Remove the fllm winding spool (empty spool)
will.stoy out.                                           from the upper film chomber. Fif it in lhe pivot
                                              on the right side of the lower film chomber onC
                                                         secure it with the left side knob. This knob sloys
                                                         oul if pulled ond turned.


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4.  lnserf o  f resh roll of fllm in the     5.  Pull oul the film leoder ond     6.  Wind lhe film winding lever
                                                                                                     (fr) mork oppeors on    upper film chomber, pushing  il           insert it in lhe longer groove            until the    gently toword the knob side.                                           the both sides of ihe poper
     Fil lhe pivot of    f he knob in         of the empty spool.                leoder. Molch fhose morks
   lhe film spool. Like lower                                               with lhe film storl mork (red
    knob, this knob sloys out loo,                                            dot) seen ol the center of the
   when pulled ond lurned.                                             bolh side film roils of  lhe
   Then lurn bock bolh knobs.                                         comero. Then close the bock
    They reiurn lo proper posiiion.                                              of the comero.
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7.  When the comero bock is closed,
   mork (V)  oppeors in the film
    counter window. Tur n the wind-
    ing lever clock-wise until the
    lever stops winding. At   this
     pcint, the shutter is cocked, ond
    the lever will not move  f orword
    ony further. Turn bock lhe wind-
                                                                                                                                      is    ing lever inlo the lever rock.     F Note: When fhe shutter
    The number (l)  oPPeors in the          cocked by turning the lever, o
      film counter window.                    red color mork will oppeor in
    You ore reodY for the first ex-         the shutter set worning mork
                                                                            -        window to show thot fhe      posu  r e.    Fo r  the second ex
     posure, turn the winding lever            shuller is cocked.
     forword until it stoPs, ond then
     turn the lever bock into the rock
      ogoi n.



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Unlooding Film





    Pull out the bock cover opening knob. This will         2.   Shift the emply spool to the lower fllm chomber.
   open the bock cover. Pull oul the film spool           See "Looding Film" os to the proper procedure.
   knob ond remove lhe roll of fllm. Fold ond seol
   the leoder edge of the roll of film.
  CAUTION: After removing lhe exposed film, especiolly 220  fllm, be sure to roll tightly the leoder poper ond
                seol it in order io prevent the intrusion of the  lisht.


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In the obove time column, on nexl poge,ihe figures
on the left ore for the morning ond those on the right
for the ofternoon. The exposure time is shown  in
terms of second. Set exposure obcut twice the speed
of the obove figures in winter ond holf in summer'

It is recommended to hold you!" eornero with both
honds ond p!"ess it firmly high ogoinst your chest.
Bring your sub!eet into shorp foeus, looking Cown
through the viewfinder.

lf the dot on the ouler ring of the shutter releose
buffon is motched with the dol mork (.) on lhe inner
ring, the shuller con nol be releosed even when lhe
butfon is pushed uninlenlionolly.
To moke o fime exposure, set the shuiter speed of o
B (bulb); press the shutter releose butlon ond while
keep pressing  il down, turn the outer ring lo molch

fhe two dots together. Now lhe shutler sloys open.
After lhe time exposure is complefed turn the outer
ring so lhot lhe dols ore seporoled. Then the shutler
will close down.
Never turn the film winding lever while the shutter
releose button is locked, as it will breok the winding
mechonism

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To use fhe self-timer, push down the self-timer lever.
Press ihe shulter releose bulton ond the self-timer
will be octivoted.
There is l0 seconds deloy before fhe picture is loken.
The self-limer con be operoted for o shorter lengfh
of time if it is not push down complelely.

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   When ovoiloble light is insufficient, you con still toke pictures with flosh.  Mount the flosh-gun on occessory shoe
    ond connecl the flosh-gun cord to lhe syncro terminol.
                                                                 becomes X conloct poinl. lt will synchronize wilh   X Contoct: When the M-X seleclor is set to the mork l,   it
                      oll shutler speeds when electronic flosh unit is used.
                                                                becomes M conloct point.  lt will synchronize with  M Contoct: When lhe M-X seleclor is sef to ihe Q mork, if
                     oll speeds when M closs bulb is used.

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When o lens is focussed on on obiect, oll things the
some distonce  f rom the lens os the obieci focused on
will be brought inlo focus. At the some time, there
exisls o certoin deoth in focus both in front of ond
behind of lhe obiect. This depth is colled the depth-
of -fleld.
The depth-of-field is deeper on the for side of the
obiect lhon on the neor side. This depth is refered
to os infinity (oo). (See the Toble of Depth-of -Field
on poge 37.) As shown in the following illustrotion,
the smoller the operture the deeper the ronge in focus.

When toking pietures wiih  tl^re infrored fllms, the
                  foeusing distonce should be odiusted. This oCiustment
              con be eosily be done by slidlng the focusrng kncb
                        slightly.
               Focus first iust os you toke o norrncl pieture. Then
                   chee k the focusrng dIstone e ct   f he seale (white pointer  l"
                Slide the focus$ng knob slightly ond sef the  n"ed
                  pointer"to the distonee where the white pointen indi-
               eoied first"
              For exon'rple, if the dlstone e [s le    f eet (3 *),  the
               white pointer indieote ot l0  (3 ).  Then slide the
                                              f oe usinE Ieven ond set the ned poInter e t 1C (3).

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