Olympus 35 S User manual

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                                                ft D Zuiko  I : 3..5 f:45mm (4-elemenr)
                                                              It is the very D Zuiko lens thot hos given o
                                      greot impelus to the increosing firm repulotion
                                  of our world fomous Zuiko lenses omong
                                     million photogrophers both ot home ond
                                   obrood.
                                            This optic (tessor type, F I : 3.5, 4-element)
                                          is speciolly designed to correct olmost oll
                                          kinds of oberrotions ond moke you enioy with
                                             fine pictures both in block-ond-white ond color
                                      with the crisp def inition ot ony ongle. In foct,
                                   no other comero. con be found onywhere-else
                                        like the Olympus 35-S equipped with such
                                         supei ior lens.

                                               ;t E Zuiko 1 z 2.8   f :4.8 mm (S-element)
                                      Speciol design wos incorporoted into lhe
                                new cptic E Zuiko lens. The highest efficiency
                                           will be given on oll negolives ond no more
                                                              been so id{                                    displocement of focus which hos                                           ineviloble lo chonge of lens operlure.

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tlt                                             ft G Zuiko  I : 1.9   f :45 mm (Z-element)
                               The Aufomotic Olympus 35-S comero  is
                                      further volued by the brightest G Zuiko I  :
                                          1.9 lens which insures olwoys rozor shorpness
                            ond flotness corner fo corner. This excellent
                                       optic brings lhe extensive ond lop sotisfoclion
                                 fo millions.


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l.  Pull out the lock for opening ond closing comero bock (19).
   And then the reor cover of fhe comero con be opened.
2. Next, pull up the rewinding knob os shown in the left figure.
                                 At the fully pulling up,
                          you con ploce the film
                                        cortridge into the cortridge
                                   chomber.
                               3. When the film hos been-
                                                  p.l,erced'. in the chomber
                                             (31), let the rewinding knob
                                      (7) slightly rotote so thof


   the cortridge  fits properly
    in the chomber.
     Then insert the end of
   the film into the slit on the
    toke-up spool.





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Turn the rewinding knob ond         www.butkus.usr"t.
      correct the film exoctly on theI
      focol plone ond let the sprocketII
Ia    cotch the perforotion of the
          Then close the reor coverI     film.
    ond lock if. When the reor
    cover hos been closed, the
     pressure plote guides the film
    on the focol plone of the co-
    mero ond moke the toke-up
     spool cotch the film properly.


      Exposure Counter

      Exposure counter (2) shows "s" (stort) ofter the reor cover is closed.
    Before storting fo toke picfures with newly looded firm, wind up
    the film ond releqse triol shots, ond repeot the some operotion,
    then the counter indicotes No.l when the third one is prepored for.
       While moking these two preporotion shots, ocertoin if the
    rewinding knob rototes in the direction opposite to thot indicoted
                                     by the orrow.
                                                                               lf the rewinding konb
                                         does not rotote, it meqns
                                        thot the film wos not                                               $,t.#,ll,     looded correctly. So                                                         IIIt   lt      lood it ogoin.
                                               Before toking pictures,

rotote the rewinding knob slightly
                                 in orrow direction so os to bring o
                                stretch on the film.
                           Pressure Plote
                                  ,   As you understond  it, the best efti-
                          ciency of lens ond mechonism of
                                           i comero con not be reolized unless
                                  ! the pressure plote gives the occurote
                            flotness. tn this point, the pressure                                                   'plote tokes o very importont port in photogrophic science.  it  is
for the some reoson thqt the Olympus 35-S provides o pressure
plote of gloss, which is for superior to ony other moteriols in
flotness. Mony dots on the surfoce of the plote prevent the
film from sticking on it.





    This is the film indicotor which reminds you the type of film in the
comero.
     It should be set ot o proper posilion right ofler the film is looded.
This prevents the reretting.
   To odiusl lhe setting, lift the rewinding knob ond ploce your finger
on lhe milled ring on the bottom side of the knob. Proper selting con
be ottoined by simply rototing the milled r:ng.
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www.butkus.us    Select oppropriote speed by rotoiing shufter
 speed diol (14). The shutter speed voriolion  is :  l,
 t/2, 1/5, 1/10, 1 125, 1/50, t/10O,  | /250, t/5OO
 sec. plus B.
 (o )  "B"  engroved on the shutter speed scole (12)
        is for bulb exposure. Set the shutter speed
       diol (l5l ot " B ".  Then the shutter will remoin
     open os long os the shutter releose button (3)
        is depressed.
 ( b )  Other   f igures on lhe scole ore for  instont
      exposure ond indicote froctions of o second,
       e. g. 2 meons ){  sec. ond 500 meons 1i500 sec.
      exposure time.



   By turning ihe diophrogm regurotor  (r 3), choose proper rens opening.
Aperture figures will oppeor ot the window (10) on rhe lens-borrel. The
diophrogm is click setting.
   Lens operture is figured 1.9, 2.9,3.5,4,5.6, g, ll,  16.
   With regord to the relotion  be?ween lens opening ond exposure
time, o smoll opening requires o long lime of exposure under the some
                                                             , light condition.  lt  will
                                                             , be noled thot when the
                                          opening steps down to
                                                                     th e next h igh er  sco le
                                            figure, the  exposure
                                             time hos to be doubled
                                             in order to give the
                              eome degree of  ex-
                                     posure. The following
                                               loble shows this relotion
                                     belween lens operlure
                                   ond shutter speed.

        Lens Openilg  1.9 2.8  3.5  4  56  8il16
       ExposureTime 4   2   1.4  1   tl2  tl4  t18 tl16
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Shutter Speed ond Lens Opening
       Shutter speed ond lens opening ore in co-relotive
    relofion. Therefore, when you decide exposure time, you
    should toke this relotion into your considerofion ond other
    importont foctors including light condition, noture of film
   os well os depth of field of lens.



   Focusing is obfoined by helicoid motion using focusing
lever  (l l).
   Combined view ond coupled ronge-finder gives both
composition ond focusing ot the some time through o window.
correct focus is secured when the doubre imoge of the subiect
in the center squore of the fierd oppeoring in the view finder
                         eyepiece coincides exoctly.
                            The focusing distonce between
                       comerq ond the subiecf moy be
                         found out by reoding the figure
                   on the distonce scole (18) when
                           coincidence occurred. Distonce
                           scole is engroved with feet : 2.5
                                    (2.71, 3, 3.5, 1, 5, 6, g, 12,24, a.

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                         Lever winder (l) tokes port in sending film ond
                      ot the some time cocking lhe shutter ouiomoticolly.
                When fhe   f ilm hqs been looded, repeot two
                        preporolion shots in order to poss the port of the
                        film which hos olreody been offected by  light
                        during looding. The exposure counter (2) indicotes
                     No. I exposure when fhe third frome of piclure is
                  wound. Eoch 'one frome of picture con be wound
                  by one stroke of lever winder motion for obout
                   180o. The Shutter is set outomoticoily ot eoch
                          winding.
                  Now your shooting ! Geilly press lhe releose
                         bulton (3) with forefinger when focusing ond com-
                            posilion ore completed. Do not ierk while moking
                   on exposure. Afler one exposure hos been mode,
                          turn the winding lever os for os it goes ond 3tops
                 ond then the lever will relurn lo the originol
                          position when you deloched the lever. Thus next
frome con be odvonced for exposure.  lf the lever does not rerurn,
this meons lhof your film lronsport is imperfect.




   When the ropid winding lever  is
qdvonced q red dot oppeors ot the
window showing thot the f ilm ond shuffer
ore reody for fhe next exposure. This
dot disoppeors when lhe releose bulton
is depressed. (See illustrotionl
    This device tells whefher the film  is
olreody lronsporteC by o mere glonce
ond prevents lhe loss of o good shot ond
ot the sometime protects lhe lever mecho.
nisms from being pulled too strongly.

Horizontol Position
    Hold the comero steodily
  in both honds, keeping your
  elbows into your side. Use
   right hond forefinger to ope-
  rote the shutter releose button
  ond left hond forefinger ond
  middle finger to mqke both
      f ocusing ond  composition
  through finder eyepiece.





Verticol Position
(o) Hold the comero by right
    hond qnd support if by left
    hond os shown on the right
     picture. Releqse the shutter
    by right hond thumb, keep-
    ing your right elbow into
    your body.

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(b) Here is onother veticol posi-
     tion. Hold the comero by
      left hond ond support it by
     right hond, preporing right
    hond forefinger for moking
    exposure os shown on the
     left picture. However, os
     this is not noturol position,
    you should keep your left
    elbow firmly toword your
     body.


    Leother Cose
  Olympus 35-S comero  is fur-
nished with de luxe lesther
cose, which is newly so de-
signed os to prevent the front
cover from swinging in front
of the lens when moking pic-
ture. The front port of the
leother cose con be detoched
iust by pushing the hook up-
word.

A cronk system is employed for film rewinding. Push the grooved
 segment in the direction of the orrow (see illustrotion) ond the rewinding
' cronk rises oulomoticolly by meonr of o spring. Depress the Bolton for
 releosing sprocket (2llon ihe boltom of the comero ond turn the lever in the
 direclion of the orrow. Rewinding becomes eosier ond quicker.



  l.  When odvoncing lhe film, lever winder should be lurnedosforos  il goes.
 2. When your film hos come lo the end, lhe lever winder no longer operoles
    or stops in holf or so. In this cose push the butlon for releosing sprockef
    (21)ond lef the lever winder furn very slightly, ond then the lever will
     relurn to the originol position.
 3. Do not loqd or unlood fhe film under the direct sun light.
 1. Protect your comero from dust ond moislure.
 5. Do not leove the film looded in the comero for o long while ofter  it
    hos been finished. Develop if within o week.
 6. Do not fouch the lens wilh fingers. Keep the lens olwoys cleon. When
       it gothers dust, wipe ond cleon ii corefully with soft brush or cotton
     cloth.
 7. Do not forget to pul the lens cop while you do not toke pictures.
 8.  lf the lens get moldy, cleon it ot relioble comero mokers.

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       A subiect is most shorply defined when it lies ot fhe distonce
       to which the lens is focused, ond its definifion groduolly deteriorofes
     when the subiect is moved neorer to the comero or moved owoy
      from the comero. However, even though fhe subiect moy not lie
                                                 iust ot the focused distonce,  if the
                                        difference is within limit, its defini-
                                         tion will sfill be sotisfoctory.  This
                                              lrmit.  . . . the distonce between the
                                     neoresf plone ond the forthest plone
                                ot which subiects ore token with
                                             sufficient shorpness.  . . . is known os
      the " depth of field ".
                It vories with the distonce focused ond thn lens opening. Depth
       of fleld indicotor (16) (D.F.l) shows this relotion. Indenticol figures
      oppeor on bofh sides of the center mork of D.F.l. The right figures
       indicqte the neorest plone of depth of field on the distonce scole
       (18| occording to the lens opening which you chose, ond the left
d
  I       figures indicote the forthest plone.
  I          For exomple, your subiect lies ot l2 feet to which you focused.
        In this cose the subiect ot 12 feet must be defined most shorply,
ir      regordless of whot lens openning is used. But should you decide, for
       exomple, thot the lens opening is to be F |  : 8. Other sublects from
      obout 8 feet to 24 teet will come on sufficient shorpness, thot is, the
       depth of field is from 8 feet to 24 feet. Reod the figures thot oppeor
      on the distonce scole (18) under the figure of 8 on D.F.l. (16)


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