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Sears Tower 50 / 51 User manual

User manual for Sears Tower 50 / 51. 11 pages in English. Read the original PDF, download or print a copy without registration.

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Brand
Sears
Model / document
Sears Tower 50 / 51
Document type
User manual
Language
English
Pages
11
File size
1.2 MB
Category
Film cameras
Document date
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Page 5 · Read text
3. Film counter
 4. View- ond ronge finder (Tower 51)
   Viewfinder (Tower 50)
 5. Accessory shoe                                        I n s t r u c  l  i o n s
 6. Releosefor double exposure
   ond rewinding
 7. Rewinding knob ond film mork
 8; Hondle for operiure setting ring
 9. Focusing ring           TOWER51 Comerq10. Hondle for focusing ring
ll.  Flosh contoct       $12. S.huttersetting ring          TOWER50 Comero
13. M X odiustment/ Self-timer          k
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The simplified looding ond use insiructionsore
                  printed on the comcra. The compleie instruction
                 doto  in the booklet should be consulled when
                you first get your comero, The doto printed on
                  the comero will  olwoys refresh ybur memory
                      loler, ond ossure you  of  trouble free picture
                      lo k ing.

             TO LOAD CAMERA:
               Use stondord color  or  block ond  white  film
                  (20 or 36-exposureroll). Open comero by lifting
                        left end outword oi grooved porlion on bodk of           :(       l
                            (Simplified                                      looding.                                                  orid                                             use                                                        instruciions
                 ore printed                                                                            Lift    :                          on bose                                ond inside                                                        of                                              comero.)                                           Ii  comero.
                     film rewir.rdknob (7). Insert filnr roll corlridge,
                       tip down.  Lower rewind knob.                             i
                  Fold ovgr  tlr"  ol  film end, insert inlo  slot of
                     film winding spco.l morked wilh orrows. Swing
                 forwqrd  the ropid odvonce lever to odvonce            It  film  uniil   il slops tlren let  it snop bock. Press
                   shutter releose button. The f!lm moy not odvonce
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o full frome ot first, bul this will be outomotic-      lentionol  double  exposure,  if,  for  exomple,
 olly controlled os you continue lo wind, so you       flosh bulb or flosh gun foiled, do lhe following:
 con next fosten bock to comerc.                  Press in film rewind releose (6) while swinging
TO CTOSE CAMERA:                                forwqrd  ropid  odvonce  lever  in  direction  of
 Insert righi extended grooved portion of comero      orrow  until   it sfops.  This permits recocking of
 bock into slotted right edge of comero body,       shutter without  odvoncing   f ilm.  Since   f ilm
 then press opposile end of comero bock until  it      counter diol odvonces with eoch winding resel snops inio position.                                                             diol to previous setting os usuol (for exomple: IO ADVANCE FI[M:
 Swing forword ropid film wind lever (1) until  it        diol  con be reset. to No. 15 by turning the two
 stops ihen lqt  it snop bock. Advonce film ond      protruding pins  in direction of  cenler orrow,
 press shutier releose one more time.                               if No. 15 odvonced to No. i6 ot red dot.)
 NOTE: Ropid film wind lever odvonces film for
         nexi exposure ond cocks shutter of fhe     TAKING THE PICIURE:
       some time.
                                                            Criticol focusing wrll  help give your  pictures Set film counter diol {3) by terning the two pro'                                               shorpness in detoil. truding pins in the direction of orrow.
 Set film memory diol so thol the red dol on
'beingrim of rewind knob (7) is opposite type of film
       used. Also here use lhe lwo protruding
 pins to move inner diol occordingly.
 This comero will prevent occidentol double ex-
 posures. However, if you w(sh lo mqke on  in-
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