Sears Tower 60 User manual

Your TOWER 60 comero is o precision mode instru-
ment which with normol core will give you mony
yeors of outstonding service; within its frome you
will find mony professionol type feotures which ore
usuolly found only in more expensive comeros,
feotures which will ollow you to toke professionol
quolity protognophs with moximum eqse.
Before operoting the comero reod the following
instructions corefully to fomiliorize yourself with the
comero ond its method of operotion. A few minutes
spent prociicing with ihe comero will be reworded
loter with finer pictures.

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     l. Lens Focusing Ring            r. Red Indicotor Line
  m. Diomond Shoped r$ork       s. Tension Lever
  n. Lens Indicotor Lever            t. Flosh Connecting Nipple
  o. Lens Stop Scole            u. Coble Releose Socket
  p. Depth of Field Scole       v. Flosh Synchro Lever
  q. Rimmed Adiusting Ring    w. Releose Button





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LOADING THE CAMERA
Alwoys lood comero with film in the shode, never in
bright light. Use No. 120 block ond white or color
fi lm.
l. Opening the Comero Bock
  Grip comero  f irmly  . . . push button (o) to the left
   in direction of orrow ond swing bock outword.
2. Pull out film winding knob (b) ond swing film
  spool corrier (c) upword. Insert empty film spool
  reel in corrier; roise film winding knob ond swing
  fitm spool corrier inword; releose winding knob
  ond turn until empty film spool is engoged.
3. Pull new film corrier (d) outword ond insert film.
  Pull topered end of film ocross bock of comero
  ond insert into slot of empty spool. Block side of
  popers should be toword lens. Turn  fi lm winding
  knob until film cotches securely then clcse
  comero bock tightly.
                           Note : You r co mero is
                          equipped with o wind-
               ow shield (e) which
                        guords sensitive pon-
                         chromotic films from
                             excess light. This shield,
                           which operotes by mov-
                        ing button (f), should
                 be kept closed ond
                             on ly opened to note
                              the odvonce of the film
                            to o new number.

4. Once the bock of the comero is close'd securely
  continue winding film until the figu're "1" oppeors.
  You ore now reody to toke your first picture.

TAKING PICTURES
Opening the Cqmero Fronl
Press button (g) locoted on bottom portion of
comero; boseboord will then fly open. Check to be
sure the boseboord is pulled completely down (both
struts (h) should click oudibly into the position). lf
the boseboord is not pulled completely down the
lens will not be the correct distonce from the film
ond pictures will be out of focus.
Using the Rongefinder ond Focusing
When looking through viewer wind,ow (i) o smoll
diomond shoped yellow hued oreo oppeors in the
center of the picture section. Ploce this yellow hued
oreo upon the subiect to be photogrophed. You will
see 2 imoges of this point, one in noturol color ond
one hued yellow.
Move the rongefinder odiusting disc (il until one
imoge is super-imposed on the other. In the window
ot the top of the comero immediotely obove disc (i)
is found the correct comero to subiect distonce's for
proper focusing. Adiust the lens focusing ring  (l)
until the distonce found by using the rongefinder
folls in line with block diomond shoped mork (t).
Your comero con be focused from 3.5 ft. to infinity
(distonces beyond 50 ft.).
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        Note: The numbers "8" ond '25' which ore morked
         in red on the lens focusing ring, ore overoge sett-
         ings for close ond distont pictures ond moy be used
      when toking pictures quickly without using o ronge-
                   fi nder.
        Determining Correct Exposures
        Correct exposure is determined by using the proper
        com,binotion of two comero settings; lens opening
        or f/stop ond shutter speed. The proper combinotion
       of those two settings depends upon the subiect,
       omount of light, ond type of film used. A guide to
        exposure volues is found in most pockoges of film,
       however for more occurocy it is best to use on ex-
       posure mete,r to determine correct settings.
        lens Openings
      The lens openrings determine the omount of light                      'co,mero        entering the         to the film. Your comero hos
       7   f ens openings nonging from  f :2.9 to f 222. The lower
        the f/stop numrber, the wider the lens opening ond
        the greoter the omount of light entering the come'ro.
       For exomple f:2.9 lets in the greotest omount of
          light while f 222lets in the smollest omount. To odiust
       the lens opening, move the lens indicotor lever (n)
         to cover lens stop desired on lens stop scole (o).
         Pre-set Lens Opening
     A sm,oll red dot on the lens stop scole (o) indicotes
       on overoge setting for bright cleor doys. By moving
        the lens indicotor lever (n) to cover this dot ond olso
        odiusting the lens focusing ring (l) till the red num-
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con pre-set your comero, ond hove it reody to toke
pictures on cleor ond sunny doys using block ond
white film.
A chort with overoge lens settings for most weother
conditions is found with most pockoges of film,
however for the rqost occurote settingr use o light
meter.
Depth of Field
After setting o definite distonce by moving the tens
focusing ring (l) to the block indicotor rork (m) o
certoin oreo in the foreground ond bockground
remoins in focus. To find this oreo o depth of field
scole (p) is provided. Once you hove set the focus-
ing ring to the indicotor mork reod upword to the
depth of field scole ond find the lens opening
(f/stop) on which your comero is set. The depth oT
field scole gives 2 sets of lens openings, one to eoch
side of the block indicotor mork. By reoding down-
word from eoch lens opening on the depth of field
scole to the focusing ring vou wil'l find the oreo in
focus in both the foreground ond bockground. For
exomple: Your comero is set of f :l I ond you ve mov-
ed the lens focusing ring until the number "8" hos
follen below the block indicotor mork. By reoding
the f/stops  (l I in this cose) on the depth of field
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             IIscole you will see thot on oreo from opproximotely                                              I
                                                                                                                                                            a6 to 13 feet is in focus.
SETTING SHUTTER SPEED
The shutter speed determines the specific length of
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      turn the rimmed odiustment ring (q) until the red
       indicotor line (r) folls on desired speed shown on top
       of lens mount. For speeds under 1/zs second it is besf
      to use tripod or similor support. A tripod moy be
      screwed into the tripod socket locoted next to button
        (g) on the bottom of the comero. For normol oction
       picture foking on cleor sunny doys ,o shutter speed
      of 1/oo is usuolly odequote; for fost oction pictures
      use l/soo. For most occurote results use o light meter.
     IMPORTANT: Before toking ony exposure the shutter
      must be cocked by moving the tension lever (t) to
J     the right.

     TAKING FTASH PICTURES
    A flosh unit moy be ottoched to the boyonet mount
         (k), ottoched with o mounting device to the tripod
        socket, or held seporotely. In order to synchronize o
       flosh gun with the comero ottoch flosh coble into
       the flosh connecting nipple  (t).
     Your TOWER 60 comero contoins q Prontor SVS
       shutter which enobles you to use regulor floshbulbs,
       speedlights, or toke deloyed oction picture,s. Expo-
       sures moy be set by moving Synchro lever (v) to sett-
       ing desired.
          l. For ordinory doylight exposures set of "M" or"X".
         2. Use "X" setting for synchronisotion of electronic
          flosh with oll shutter speeds, ond for flosh lomps
        with 1/zs second ond lower speeds.
         nMu     3.Use      setting for synchronizotion of M-type
         flosh lomps with speeds from rlso to l/soo second.


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Hold comero steody ond level (use iripod for speeds
   under l/so second ond "B" exposures); slowly press
   shutter releose button.
  Advonce film by turning winding knob (b) until
  next number oppeors in window (") in bock of
   cqmero.

UNTOADING FIIM
 . . . should olwoys be done in the shode, never in
bright light. After the lost film hos been exposed
turn film winding knob (b) until no more film  is
visible through film window ond knob turns freely.
Open the bock of the comero, roise the film winding
knob, swing spool corrier upword, ond remove  fi lm.
Seol film with tope provided. Tronsfer empty film
spool from spool corrier (c) to spool corrier (d) os
previously described.

TIGHT VALUE SCATE
A light volue scote morked in red numbers is tocot-
ed immediotely below the focusing ring. This scole
con be used if your light meter hos o light volue
setting scole. (The TOWER No. 9704 light meter is
equipped with o light volue scole os well os the
regulor ASA scole). To ,set the ligl-rt volue scole be
sure the light volue lock (locoted next to the flosh
connecting nipple (t) i,s in the position furthe'st
down. Toke o reoding with your light meter to deter-
mine the light volue ond set thisvolue on thecomero
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      desired light volue setting folls obove the metol
        pointer. By pushing the light volue lock in ond up-
      word, the shutter ond the lens opening controls ore
       locked together; thus when you move the rimmed
       odiusting ring (q) to o new speed setting, the lens
        indicotor lever (n) moves to o new setting olso; this
       enobles you to move from slow to fost oction pic-
        lures with only one odiustment i.e. setting the light
      volue lock. To releose the lock push it to the down
        position. The light volue lock con olso be used when
      o light meter is not ovoiloble. Once the lens opening
        (f/stop) hos been determined ond the shutter speed
        selected, simply move light volue lock from "down"
      lo "up" ond both controls will be locked. As long
      os the light conditions do not chonge, fost or slow
       oction pictures moy be token by moving ihe rimmed
       odiustment ring (q) to chonge the speed setting.

    MEMORY DIAL
    A convenient memory oid is
      locoted on top of the  fi lm
      winding knob (b).The two
       scoles morked (ASA ond DIN)
       indicote the speed roting of
       film. By turning the diol in
     the center of the wind ing
      knob you con set the ASA or DIN roting of the film
     you hove in the comero to the block pointer. The
      numberol "K' in the block oreo indicotes indoor
      type color film while the numberol'I" in the light
      oreo indicotes outdoor type colorfilm.
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