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Sears Tower 54 / Olympus Super Wide-E User manual
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- Sears
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- Sears Tower 54 / Olympus Super Wide-E
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- English
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- 21
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U S A A N D S I M P S O N S S E A R S L I M I I E I ) R O E S U L h A N I J ! , O M A ( J L I N J A P A I \View original page 2
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Feolures
L en s : D-Zu iko W l: 3 .5 f:35m/m
Shutter: Copol MXV. Built-inself-timer. Rongeincludesl,rfz,rls,rlro,tlzr, llro, tlroo,
tlrro,tltoosecondond bulb. Click settings.
Aperlure : 3.5, 4, 5.6, 8, I l, 16. Click settings.
Distoncescqle3 2, 2.5, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 15, 30 ond oo (ft.)
Fixed focus seiting by click stops. Focusingis done by single helicoidol
molion.
Film winding: Winding lever cocksthe 3hutter,lronsporl3 film, ond indicoteslhe ex-
posure count ot the some time.
Film Rewinding : Ropid rewind cronk.
Finder : Bright frome finder.
Exposure meler r Built-in. Light volue system electric exposure meler.
Aitqched milky-whiie filter converts the meter into on incident lighf fype.
An omplifier (booster) is ovoiloble.
Comero bock: Opens ond closes by woy of o hinge.
Lens hood: Slip-on type, 35mim in diometer.
Filter : 30.5m/m in diomeler, screw-in type.
Flosh plug : Germon type.View original page 4Page 5 · Read text
Fllm loodlng
l. The Tower 54 uses the slondord 35mm cortridges, 36 or 20 exposures, in color or
block-ond-white.
2. Bcfore loodingfilm try o blonk shot by first lurning rhe film winding lever ond then
depresr the thuttcr bullon.
3. Intert the topering end of the film into lhe slot of the toke'up spool in rhe direction
of lhe orrow, deep cnough lo secure the film.
4. lnserl ihe polrone into the mogozine chomber.
5. Pushin lhe rewindingknob. lf it :tcps on lhe woy, rotole il slightly,then the rewind-
lng key grips the film spool inside the Polrone. Roire lhe rewinding cronk, while
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holding down the potrone, ond rofote the cronk in the direcfion of orrow until the
f i l m p u l l s t i g h t .
6 . close the bock cover ond push in the lock. Turn the film winding lever ond see fhot
the rewinding knob turns unti-clock-wise. Put the cronk bock'
7. Turn the exoosure counter diol in the direction of the qrrow until the red spot on it
oppeors opposite the block index mork on the winding lever.
Turn the film winding lever ond depress the shutter button. Turn the lever ogoin.
Then the number "l" is iust opposite the index mork, thot is, the comero is reody for
t h e f i r s t e x p o s u r e .
8 . T h e f i l m i n d i c o t o r i s f o r r e m i n d i n gt h e u s e r t h e s p e e d o f f i l m i n s i d e t h e c o m e r o .View original page 6Page 7 · Read text
F l l m w l n d l n g o n d S h u t t e r C o c k l n g
Turn the f ilm winding lever until it
stops. The film is tronsported one frome
ond the shutter is chorged ot the some
time.
Shutter releose button will not go off
unless the new frome is tronsported. This
is due to the oction of the double exposure
S h u t t e r s p e e d prevention device.
Speed ronges os
t l r o , t l r r , ' l r o , ' l r r o , t l z t o , B , 1 , ' l r , ' l r ,
r/566second ( F e o t u r e )
This diol hos click settings which will
enoble you, offer o short proctice, to get The shutter incorporoted on the Tower
o desired shutter speed even in the dork. 54 hos its blodes situoted in between the
The letter "B" on the shutter speed diol lens ond the film plone, ihe so colled
www.orphancameras.com" behind-the-lens shutter ". indicotes time exposures.View original page 7Page 8 · Read text
This system hos mode it possible to employ Film winding
q 35mm short focol lens on o low cost comero indicotor
like ihe Tower 54 qnd ot the some time hos
mode it eosier to cock the shutter.
W i n d i n g I n d i c o t o r ( R e d w i n d o w )
When the film is odvonced one frome ond
the shutter is cocked by turning the lever, o
red dot oppeors ot the window in front of
the releose button. This red dot disoppeors
when the shutter is releosed.
This device enobles you to oscertoin whe-
ther the comero is reody for o shot or not.
( N o t l c e )
l. lt is odvised io moke it o rule to cock the shutter iust before on exposure is mode.
2. lt is possible to chonge the shutter speed ofter the shutter is once set, but in mecho-
nisms there is one sequence of chonging geors befween the exposure groups of t/uo-
r/25 second ond rf zso-tf56sseGond,ond it moy some times couse o cotch.
ln this cose iurn the shutter diol in other direction first ond then set fhe shutter ot
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l r i s d i o p h r o g m r i n g ( t h e l e n s o p e n i n g o s l . u n i t .
d i o l ) i s l o c o t e d o t t h e f r o n t e n d o f t h e l e n s r 6
b o r r e l . A s t h i s d i o p h r o g m r i n g r o t o t e s
t o g e t h e r w i t h t h e d i s t o n c es c o l e ,t w o s e r i e s
o f o p e r t u r e n u m b e r s o r e o r r o n g e d s y m -
m e t r i c o l l y o n t h e d i o l f o r q u i c k e r s e t t i n g . D i s t o n c es c o l e i s e n g r o v e d i n m e t e r ( f t . )
B o t h s e r i e s g i v e t h e s o m e r e s u l t . on the distonce scole ring, from 60cm (2ft.)
Aperture number rqnges of 3.5, 4, 5.6, to co (infinity).
8 , I l , o n d 1 6 , o n d e m p l o y e s c l i c k s e t t i n g s . B y t u r n i n g t h e r i n g t h e w h o l e l e n s
T h e f o l l o w i n g l i s t s h o w s t h e r e l o t i o n o f moves either forword or bock-word by o
o p e r t u r e s o n d o m o u n t o f l i g h t t o k i n g F 4 single helicoidol motion.
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Becouse of the lorge depfh-of-field inherent lo lhe short focol lenses, in oll other
coses the difference belween the estimolion ond lhe ocluql meosurement is hordly
percepiible in the finol piclure. For the further explonotions on this molter refer to lhe
column of " depth-of-field ".
On the Tower 54 comero there ore two speciol
distonces engroved on the distonce scole in red ;
they ore 2m (7tt.l ond 5m (l 5f t.) ond both settings
ore done by click stoPs.
Set the operture ot 8 ond the distonce ot 5m
(l5f t), then everything is in shorp f ocus f rom 2.5m
(8.2ft.) to inf inity.
For usuol out door snoP shooting this
combinotion is very useful.
For close up portroit or for shooting peo- xThe -€- mork on the
ple neor the comero, use the combinotion of top surfoce of the
2m (7tt.) ond operture 8. This time everyth- comero body is the
ing in between 1.4m (4.6ft.) ond 3.5m (l l.4f t.) bose line f or dis-
oport from the comero is in shorp focus. tonce scole.View original page 10Page 11 · Read text
B R I G H T F R A M E F I N D E R
G o r n p o s l t l o n o f ? h e F l r r d e r
In this illustrotion @, @ ond @ com-
pose o usuol opticol finder through which
you con see the sight.
A gloss plote @ hos on it on opticol
frome oluminized on its reor side.
The Tower 54 comero incorporotes on Reflecting Mirror I opticol frome view finder. A lum inized
When you look through the finder you lo Frame
con see two bright short lines inword from 9 Eve-,
the f rome. These ore the porollox indi-
cotor. Porollox is the dif f erence of f ield
of view which exists between the f inder Eye-piece lens
ond the toking lens. This is coused by Ref lector Frame glass
for Frame
Objective lens their different positions on the www.orphancameras.comcomerct.View original page 11Page 12 · Read text
F L A s H S Y N C H R O N I Z A T I O N
Flosh bulbs for o lens shutter ore clossified
into two closses, closs M ond closs F.
l. Using o closs M bulb ;
Set the syncro lever 24 ot the mork M,
ond the flosh synchronizes of oll speeds.
2. Using o Strobe light ;
Set the Synchro lever 24 ot X, ond the
electronic flosh synchronizedof oll speeds.
With rhis selling,
A closs M bulbs con be used for o speed setting belween l-r/35*second, ond o closs F bulb
between l-l/50 second. When the synchro lever is set ot 'X, electric currenl slorls to
flow when lhe shutter is fully open. When this lever is sel ot M, the time deloy geors
inside the shutter first stort flowing lhe electric current through ihe bulb, lhen the shulter
slorls opening,
S E L F T I M E R
Firsl sel lhe synchro lever ol X, ond push up the self limer lever until it stops. Push
down the shuller releote button ond the shutter outomoticolly opens ond closes oboul 8
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F I L M R E W I N D I N G
t . When oll the exposures ore token, film stops
odvoncing ond os o result the winding lever
becomes heovier.
2. This is the time for the film to be rewound bock
into the potrone in the mogozine chomber.
3. To rewind the f ilm, depress the rewinding
button in the bottom of the comero, roise the
rewinding cronk ond turn it in the direction of the
orrow.
The rewinding button, once depressed, stoys of this
depressed position until the film winding lever is newly
turned.
When the rewinding procedure is finished, open the
comero bock ond toke out the potrone.
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Soft cose
Avoiloble in 5 colors; brown, rose, green, btock
ond in yellow. Very convenient for corrying the
comero.
Goble releose
When o tripod or the close-up device is used, use
of o coble releose is recommended.
A CCE55 0 ffiY *:::':?:".'":?tli:J,.#.'1";;:
Fllm mogozlne
Model rr P t'
Common to oll Olympus
35 mm comeros. Reco-
mmended to the bulk f ilm
users.
Fl lter
Contoining 3 different Glose-up device Lens hood
filters ; o UV, o Skylight For copying books, pictures Specif icolly designed f or the
ond o Yl filter. All or f or close-up shot of Tower 54 comero.
screw-in types. flowers or tiny things.View original page 14Page 15 · Read text
The built-in exposuremeler on lhe Tower 54 comerqis so designedthot it con be used
either os o reflected light meter or on Incidentlight meter.
? . R e ; ! e c t e c , !l l q h t m e ? h c C
Point the comero to the subiect, the needle
of the exposure meter will move ocross o
numbered scole indicoting the volume of light
present. This scole is numbered os 2, 4, 6,
12, eoch section is pointed olternotively either
in block or in white ond only those correspond-
ing to the white sections ore numbered.
(A ) When used for generol out-door lond-
scope, there is o donger of reoding too much
of the light from o brilliont sky. Therefore,
when meosuring the light, core must be token to point the comero slightly downword,
perhops of o point obout holf woy between your feet ond the horizon.
( B ) In portroiture or in close up shot, b. coreful not to reod the reoding of shodow of
the comero, os this would give o folse light volume.
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(C ) When the difference of reodings between the brightest ond the dorkest portion of
the subiect is lorge, toke the reoding of o point holf woy between these extremities I
( D ) lf the subiect to be photogrophed is inoccessibte, you moy reod on obiect of simitor
brightness qnd texture neor ot hond. The polm of the hond mokes qn excellent
substitute for o persons foce.
After the reoding of the proper light volume is finished, turn the outside milled ring
o f t h e e x p o s u r e m e t e r , o n w h i c h t h e f i g u r e s 7 , 2 , . . . . , 1 2 o r e e n g r o v e d o f o n e q u o l
intervol, until the some figure comes iust opposite the block index engroved on the $
comero body neor the figure 4 on the light volume scqle.
Then on the upper left corner of the diol o series of combinotion of operture number , i
ond shutter speed number is shown.
In our illustrqtion, the needle indicotes 5, ond the diol is set ot 5 ond the combinotions
of operture qnd shutter speed ore:
Aperture (F-number) 5.6 4 or
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When o yellow filter of the exposure foctor 2 is used, set the diol ot the yellow figure 2.
And when on oronge filter of the foctor 4 is employed, set the diol ot the figure 4 in red.
2. Incldent llght method
A milky white filter is supplied with the comero os on ottochment. This works to
convert the reflected light type exposure meter into on incident light type mefer.
Cover the window of the Lieht
exposure meter with the white Source
fifter ond bring lhe comero lo
lhe position of fhe subiecf ond
direct the comero in the direc-
tion obout holf woY between .--.JI
the light source ond the Point
where the comero would be
when toking the Picture.
Direct the exposuremeter in this direction
www.orphancameras.comqnd toke reoding on the light volue scole.
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When lhe light source is so smoll os in the coses of using home light or o spot light,
direct the comero in the direction of the light source ond meosure the light volume.
For outdoor lond scope where the light is evenly distributed oll over, light is meosured
of the position of the comero, not ot the position of the subiect, by only turning bock ond
by reosuring in the some woy.
t , ' : , t I i
I t i s q u i t e u s e f u l i n o d o r k p l o c e w h e n
the light is not enough to moye the needle
of the meter olone.
Just plug it in the occessory shoe on
the comero body ond plug the end of the
cord into the socket on the upper reor of
the comero.
Meosure the light volume on the meter
scole ond set the diol to the index A this
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D-ZU|KO-W LENS
The power of the D-Zuiko-W lens is opporently exercised especiolly in color photo-
grophy.
It covers the view of 63 degree ond hos on extremely lorge depth-of-field.
The wide field of view of 63 degree results in o splended volume ond gives q spoce
effect to the picture which with o lens of 50mm focol length will never be obtoined.
The lorge depth-of-field serves for quick shootings without cousing blurred picture
which comes from moving B A Camere
of comero.DEPTH.OF.FIELD cn nnfr, Three persons A, B ond $ **.: C ore positioned ot dif -
ferent distonces from the *
comero.
Theoreticolly, when one of them, for exomple A, is focused, other two, B ond C in this
instonce, ore out of focus; in other words, only A is shorp in the picture.
tn proctice, however, if A ond C qre considerobly close to B, the A ond C equolly
shorp os B when B is focused. t The distonce between B ond A is colled the front-depth-of-field ot B ond the one
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