Minolta Reporter-S User manual

ALt ABOUT YOUR MINOTTA REPO S
   Congrotulotions! You now own o fine Minolto Repo S holf-size comero. This comero
gives you 40 exposure from o 20-exposure  roll; 72 exposures from o 36-exposure
roll.  There is o built-in exposure meter thol helps you set lhe comero in one simple ope-
rotion. lf you never used o comero before, know nothing obout its operotion, you'll
find the Minolto Repo S eosy, occurote ond foolproof.  Before using the comero,
however, pleose reod this monuol corefully so thot you moy utilize oll ihe feoiures of
your new Repo S.

}  SPTCIFICATIONS :
                   18x24 mm (Holf size) Use stondord 35 mm fllm.
 Piclure Size:   C 40 pictures on stondord 20 exposure roll.
                 72 piclures on slondord 36 exposure roll.

                                                                          .Lens:    o T?k!?l(o elemenlsPl.l l_8j'1'In 5 groups.,

                  Seiko B, l(-l(ss    sec.Shutter:    O Built-in flosh synchronizolion.
                    (X contoct, M closs bulb con be used on ),(s sec.)

Focusing:    C Helicoid focusing. Focus close down to 0.8m (2.6feet).

                     Cross-coupled with shulter speed ond diophrogm.
                                                   100)Exposure mefer :  a EV 6.7 -EV l7 (on ASA                        ln monuol photogrophying; EY 4.7-EY 17.

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Sensitivity of fflmsused  :      O ASA 25-800. DIN l5-30.

Finder  :                 I   Bright fromed finder with porollox correcting morks.

Film winding:   O BV ropid lever.

                  Double exposure is prevenled.
Others:                 I   Aulomotic resetling film counler.
                    Cronk style film rewind.

Filter  :                I  Screw in lype. Q 40.5 mn

Size, Weight :       tf Wiatn I l5 mm x Height 67 mm x Thickness 5l .5 mm, 440 grom

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a9  Film pressure
     plote
@   Film toke-up
     shoft
@   Film odvonce
     lever
@  Sprocket
@  Finder eye-
     piece
@  Rewinding shoft
@  Bock locking tob

FOUR STEPS TO
       PERFECT PICTURES





|  . Sut the ASA film speed roting of
    the film you ore using.

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2.  sut lhe shutter speed, then iurn the diophrogm ring until the green index  is
    oligned with the red needle. This sets lhe comero for correcr exoosure.
   You moy reverse the procedure; Set the diophrogm first. Then lurn ihe shutter
    ring unlil index ond needle ore oligned.

3.  Fo.ur.   Eslimote the distonce
    beiween comero ond subiect onC
     set it on the lens borrel. Crilicol
     focusing  is not necessory becouse
    of ihe wide depth-of-field of the
    Rokkor lens.


{.  Corpose your piclure within the
     bright frome of the view finder.

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l.  Open the bock cover                            $.  Trrn the toke-up shoft
by pulling the locking lob up-                                   until the groove is visible.
words. The bock cover will                                lnsert the  f ilm leoder into
snop open.                   in the film cose.            the groove.

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$.  Clot" the bock cover.  f.   Roir" the rewind cronk
Press the door  lighlly.   lt ond rotole it in the direction
will close ouiomoticolly.      indicoted by the orrow, fo
                            foke off the slock left in the
                                film leoder.
                               Relurn the cronk to its normol
                                  position.

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7.  Wh"n you close the bock cover.         $.  Thereofter, by repeoling
the film counter ouiomoticolly shows         the picture-toking, the number                                          of film fromes thot hove been"S" for stort. Turn the film odvonce        exposed is outomolicolly  indi-
lever (pressing the shutter releose        coled on the counter. (When
                                                                                                                                isofter eoch odvonce) until "l"  oppeors        the film odvoncing lever                                          turned. if  the rewind knobin the film counier.                                           rototes occomponying ot  lhe
                                           some time.  it shows thot the film
                                                       is correclly being odvonced.)

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  You con sel the ring ot ony one of the frgures or
   ot intermedioie openings.
  The relolion belween diophrogm ond light volume  is
  shown lef t.

SHUTTER SPEEDS
Shutter speeds rong-.  f rom 16 to 116oo
second wiih the following slops'
!6, )4s, 260, !60' l4zs, )dso, ond
!600. The speed you select depends
on the subjeci. Fosl-moving subject
requires fost shuiter speeds so lhere
will be no blur. ,1 2b second is re-
commended for generol photogrophy.

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        to keep the shutler open os long os
        the shutler butlon is pressed down.
          At speeds slower Ihon l(s  second
        or B position,  it is odvisoble to use
      o iripod ond coble rereose.





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SETTING THE CAMERA FOR CORRECT EXPOSURE  >
                      HOW TO SET THE ASA FILM SPEED
                                          Before toking pictures you must set ihe ASA
                                               film speed roting of the film you ore using.
                                             You'll find ihis roting in the film inslructions.
                             On the bottom of the lens borrel you'll find
                             ASA rotings   'f rom 25 to 800 (ond comporotive
                                DIN rotings). Press the button ond turn until lhe
                                      proper number is oligned with ihe index.





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PRECAUTIONS IN TIEASURING LIGHT
 I .  When phoiogrophing people, lhe light should be meosured os neor the
     subiecl os possible. Set the comero. Then return lo the position you
     prefer for you piclure.
2.  When photogrophing  londscopes, core should be token so thot you do nof
    meosure the extremely bright reflecled lighl from sun. sky, beoch, etc.
3.    lf  light is loo bright ond you connot properly olign the index with the
     needle, odiust the shutter to o foster speed. The some is true when the
      light is very dim. You moy hove lo odiust lhe shuller to o slower speed.
4,    lf you use o filter, it's best to moke on odiustment in your ASA selting so
     thot the exposure meler con toke inlo occount the foct lhot less light is coming
     inlo the lens. For exomple,  if you ore using o l00ASA film with o filter
     thot hos o correclion foctor of 2, reset lhe ASA diol io 50.   lf you hove
   o filter correclion foctor of 4. reset the ASA to 25 ond so on.

DEPTH.OF-FIEtD
  The depth-of-field of o lens is the distonce
ronge wilhin which everything is in relotively
shorp  f ocus. This ronge vories wilh the operture
opening. lt is greotesl when the lens is closeo
to  its smollest point (f l6) ond leost when
 it is fully open (f 1.8). The photogrophs here
help illustrote the relotionship between operlure
opening ond deplh-of-field.
  The exoct shorp focus ronge for eoch oper-
lure opening is given in the depth-of-field toble
on ihe focing poge.

A distonce scole is morked on ihe
focusing ring in both feet ond melers.
Becouse the Rokkor lens in this comero
hos o very wide depth-of-field,  cri-
iicol focusing is not necessory. Simply
estimote the dislonce between comero
ond subiect ond sel lhe focusing ring
occordingly. Close-up shols of I meler
(3 feet) or  less, however, require
occurote focusing.

VIEW FINDER
  Look through the view finder ond you
will see o bright line frome. The oreo
inside this frome is whot will oppeor
o;r the finished photogroph. Whenever
loking pictures be sure your subiect
is contoined wilhin this frome.
  At close distonces of 3 feet or
less, porollox occurs (the slight di-
fference between whol ihe lens '/sees/'
onC whol you see in the view finder).
For close-up shols use the porollox
correclion morks  ( [ ) os ihe perimeter
of vour frome.

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  The comero moy be held horizontolly or
verlicolly. lt is best to press the comero
firmly ogoinst your foce ond releose lhe
shutter with o slow pressure in order to
prevenl oll movemenls ond insure shorp
negof ives.  lt is odvisoble lo use the right
eye for viewing. This leoves your hond
free to odvonce the film odvonce lever
quickly. The film odvonce conloins o double
exposure prevention device; the shutter
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- uruloADrNG THE FrtM   (
    When you hove finished the film roll, you
    will nof be oble to odvonce the lever.  (Also,
   lhe outomolic fllm counter will point to either
   40 or 72 depending on the length of the film
   you ore using.) Do not force the lever or
   lhe fllm will leor out of the mogozine.
    You must rewind the film bock into the
    originol film mogozine in order to unlood the           Push in the rewind releose
     film.                                                      button on the bottom of the
                                                               comero.





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