Sunpak Ultima 300 User manual

I         Your new Ultimo 300 is o modern electronic flosh unit embodying odvonced tronsistor
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           circuitry. Using self -contoined, reploceoble penlite botteries,  it delivers the dependodle
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            light you need for color ond block-ond-white photogrophy onywhere, onytime.
          Even in bright doylight, the Ultimo 300 helps improve the quolity of your pictures by
           brightening shodow oreos ond bringing out detoils thot would otherwise be lost.

         With normol use ond core, your Ultimo 300 will perform reliobly for mony thousonds

              ffosh pictures.f        of

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        REMARKS  :
       When the unit is used for the first time il moy toke up to two minutes until the pilot
            light glows, indicoting thot your Ultimo 300 is reody to be fired. This is not on
           indicotion lhot the unit is defective. lt merely indicoles thot rhe condenser which wos
          nol used for o while is toking up chorge.

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ATTACHING TO CAMERA AND TO SHUTTER
Attoch unit lo comero by sliding brocket info comero occessory shoe ond tighlening
the lorge screw. With unit securely mounled on comero, plug PC tip of synch cord
into flosh terminol on comero. Moke certoin thot your comero shulter is set for
                         X synchronizotion, ond to the speed recommended

                                        for zero-deloy electronic floshunits. Use of shutter
                                 speeds l/60th second or fosler is recommended,

                              where possible.

                           NOTE:
                                 The durotion of ULTIMA 3o0 flosh is l/l000th
                                 second, which will  ef fectively stop fost oclion,
                                      regordless of shutler speed setling.

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INSTALLING BATTERIES
  Open bottery comportment by pushing bock the lid. Comporlment holds 4 penlite                                                                                       \boileries. Insed bolleries with relolion to (+) ond (-)  os shown on unil.
Close comporlment  cover.                                                              I
BATTERY OPERATION
   Slide ON/OFF switch lo ON position. You will heor o sustoined high-pitched
'beep' indicoling thol lhe unit is in operotion. When the reody-light begins to glow,
                                   the unit is reody to be fired. With fresh botleries,
                                   the reody-light will go on in obout 3-5 seconds,                                                                 I                          ond will recycle in obout lhe some time ofler
                              eoch llosh.                                                          J                                     A. set of fresh zinc-corbon botteries will deliver
                             obout l50 floshes before replocement becomes
                                  necessory. A sel of mongonese-olkoline botleries
                                        will deliver obout 3 times os mony.

DETERMINING EXPOSURE
           Rotote the ouler ring of the Exposure colculotor on the unit until the orrow points lou
           the ASA (or DIN) speed roting for the film in use. The correct lens operture will
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         be found on the inner diol odlocent to the number representing the distonce from the
            unil lo the subiect

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                lf, for exomple, yon ore using ASA 25 filn, photogrophing o sublect 7 leet owoy,
i!l.           lhis indicoted lens opertnre would be f4.
          Another method for obtoining the correct f stop is the use of film guide numbers.I
           Dividing the guide number by the sublect distonce  gives the numericol volue of the
                      f -stop to be used. For exomple, using ASA 2OO  film, the guide ntrmder would be 80.
                                                                     lO, or f8.        At l0 feet, the operture would then be 80 -

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SPECIFICATIONS
Power source             4 stondord penlight botteries

Guide number with
Kodochrome II (ASA 25)       30 (for distonces in feet)
Recycling time               3-5 seconds
Bottery life                           corbon-zinc, opprox. 150 floshes per set;
                                     mongonese-olkoline, opprox. 450 floshes;
                                            nickel - cod., up to 450  f locshes.
Flosh durotion                                           | / l,OOOth second
Angle of coveroge              65"
Color lemperolure           5800o K



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