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Yashica D User manual
User manual for Yashica D. 15 pages in English. Read the original PDF, download or print a copy without registration.
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- Yashica
- Model / document
- Yashica D
- Document type
- User manual
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 15
- File size
- 4.8 MB
- Category
- Film cameras
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To remove the comero for film lood- Spreod the sides of the cose oporl
ing roise lhe lwo metol Lock Slides. ond lift the comero free.
Just snop off the botiom
when removing the entire -lr***** r,
front element of the corrY-
ing cose.
Your Yoshico comero comes complete with
o deluxe, leother evereody cose. While
the comero is in the cose, oll working ports
ore visible ond reody to use. All you need
lo do is open the bock-snop ond lift the
top ot the cose forword.View original page 5Page 6 · Read text
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120 size film
| 2 pictures per roll
in the populor 211x21i size
Block-ond-White or Color
( I ) To unlock bock cover, turn the tripod socket in the
direction morked 'O'. Then ooen the Bock Cover
by swinging it out.
www.butkus.us (21 Remove the Toke-Up Spool in the Lower Film Chomber
by pulling ouf lhe Lower Film Spool Locking Spring.
(3 ) Ploce the Toke-Up spool in the Upper Film Chomber
by pulling out ihe Upper Film Spool Locking Spring.
(4 ) Ploce o new roll of size .|20 film in the Lower Film
Chomber.
( 5 ) Gently drow out the film leoder. Threod the film
leoder into the wider slot of the Toke-Up Spool in
the Upper Film Chomber, then turn the Film Winding
Knob. Moke sure ihot the film leoder is ploced evenly.View original page 6Page 7 · Read text
(6l Turn the Film Winding Knob until the orrow on the
film itself is odiocent to the red triongle on the
comero body. Reploce the comero bock ond lock it
in ploce.
| 7 | To close the comero bock cover, turn the tripod-
socket in the direction morked " C".
( 8 ) When the bock cover is closed ond locked, the
letter " S " oppeors in the Film Counter Window
outomot icolly.
(9 ) Then just turn the knob until the number " 1" oppeors rt in ihe window. You ore reody for your first picture.
(l0l After toking o picture, push the Film Releose Button
ond turn the Film Winding Knob so thot the Film
Counter Window shows the next number. The Film
Winding Knob will lock outomoticolly.
Coution : When looding or unlooding film stond in o
shodow-never in strong, direct sunlight.
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( I ) Open the Viewllnder Hood
by lif ting it ot bock. Press the
Viewfinder Hood down to close
lr. Roise the lower cop ond fold
bock on its hinge. Turn the
upper cop counter clockwise
ono remove.
trl
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The shutter speed (right) ond
lens openirg (left) is sei by
turning the Control Wheels with
y'our thumbs in either dlrection.
up or down, os indicoied by ihe
orrows. The red shufier speed
lgures crnd the block lens opening
figures shoulC be set so thot ihe
red Iine in the window runs
exoctly thrcugh the center of the
llgures.
( 5 ) Push down the Shutter Cock-
ing Lever. Be sure not to chonge
Shulter Speed ofter the Shutter
is cocked. Now, gently releose the
Shutter oy pressing the Shulter
Releose Button. See orrow mork.View original page 8Page 9 · Read text
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Assures more occurofe focusing.
( I ) Roise the Mognifying
Gloss by pressing the front
of the Focusing Hood Cover
inword, holding the Focusing
Hood so thot it does not close.
When using the Mognifying
Gloss, ploce your eye os close
to the Mognif ying Gloss os
ooss ib le.
( 2 | Alwoys moke sure ihot
you hove first lowered the
Mognif ying Gloss befoie
closing the Focusing Hood.
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sight your subjecf through the
sporfsfinder window.
(A) Depress the Focusing Hood
Cover until it clicks into ploce. (B) Push the Releose Button
Lift the Yoshico to your eye level. when closing it.View original page 9Page 10 · Read text
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Youf Yoshico offers M-X synchronizotion The Self-timer, for toking self-
portroits or group pictures, gives
you obout 8 seconds to get into
lhe oicture.
(A) Coution ! 8e sure lo move
lhe synchronizotion se/eclor fo fhe
X position when using Se/f-timer.
(B) Then set the speed, cock the
shutter ond move the Self-timer in
Do not use Short Peok Bulb with " M " Synchronizolion. the direction shown bv the orrow.
Move the selector to X position when using Electronic Flosh.
Your comero deoler will be glod to supply the proper flosh ot-
tochment for your comero.
As you become more proficient ot toking pictures, you will wont
lo ocquire occessories thot increose the versotility of your Yoshico.
One of the first occessories you will wont will be o flosh unit. Your
Yoshico is reody ond woiting. Synchronizotion for flosh is built-in.
A stondord PC connector plugs into the flosh terminol. The bottery www.butkus.us
cose slips into the Ac-
cessory shoe or ottoches
to the comero vio on orm
thot screws into the
tripod sockel.
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A stondord, overlop-type Coble Releose con be fitted to
your Yoshico. Simply unscrew the Shutter Releose Ring ond
screw in the Coble Releose. Your comero deoler will supply
the proper Coble Releose for your comero. See obove
picture.View original page 10Page 11 · Read text
You see ihe piclure
,l.For lhe best reproduction, hove the before loking
film developed ond printed promptly
ofter you hove finished the roll. Your Yoshico is o twin-lens reflex comero. The
lower lens tokes the picture. The upper lens is
for focusing ond composing on the ground gloss
viewing screen.
To begin, open the Focusing Hood by lifiing it
ot the bock. Ncw point your Yoshico ot the
lrfter tol,.ing oll 12 pictures turn the subiect.
Film Winding Knob obout 6 turns. ro Rotcte the Focusing Knob until your subiect on
toke up lhe remoining film. Then open the ground gloss screen is shorp. At thc somethe comero ond remove the film. lime compose your subiect on the ground gloss
os you would like to see it in the finol picture.
m
ls unusuolly simple on the
Yoshico's ground gloss
viewing screen. The 4 red
guide lines help you for
properly composing your
piclures.View original page 11Page 12 · Read text
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In oddition to focusing, there ore two bosic odiustments on ony fine comero : the LENS
AIERTURE OT OPENING ONd thE SHUTTER SPEED
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The Lens Aperture controls the omount of light thot will poss through the lens onto the
f ight-sensitive film. Your Yoshico-D, with its Yoshikor lens, offers openings ot f :3.5 4 5.6
8 1l 16 22.
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f3.5 t4 f5.6 f8 flt fl6 (22 5$$$$
Notice thot the lower the number, the lorger the opening. F 3.5 is the lorgest opening,
f :22 the smollest.
To set the lens opening, move the Aperture Control Lever to the desired number on the
Aperture Scole.
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lhe Shutter Speed controls the durotion of fhe e;<posure. Shutter speeds on this comerc
with its fine Copol Shutter ore 1,112, l14, 118, 1115, 1130, 1160, 'lfl25, 1f250, l/500
of os econd ond B. The 'B ' setting is for toking pictures with on exposure longer thon
I second. Use o Tripod. or Broce when using B. When you press the Shutter ReleosE
rB' selting the shutter stoys open until you releose pressure on the button. Bu ton on the
It is odvisoble to set the shutter speed before you cock the shutter ot qll times.
Comero moy be Hond Held Use o Tripod or Broce
Action Time
,dveroge Pictures Pictures Exposure Slow speeds
,B' sec tlz tl4 l/8 l/15 u3q 1160 11125 11250 l/500 IView original page 12Page 13 · Read text
For low obiects rest the
Yoshico on the ground
When fences or other
obstructions ore in your
woy you con hold your
Yoshico over heod, focus-
ing ond viewing from
below.
Hold the comero steody, then
gently, push the Shutter Releose
Button.
Steody the comero on
your knee when toking Use the Sportsfinder for
pictures from o lower toking pictures on the
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ffi www.butkus.us When you focus the comero on o subiect there is o certoin distonce in front ond bock of the subiect within which other obiects will olso oppeor shorp. This is known os fhe " Depth-of-Field ", ond it vcries with the lens operture. The smoller the operture lhe greoter fhe Depth-of-Field; ii is much lorger ot f :22 lhon ot f :3.5. At the focusing knob is o score which will indicote the Dept,r-of-Field when the comero is focused rt vorious distonces. You will notice thot on either side of the f :3.5 figure is o similor set of numbers which represent lens opertures. When fhe comero is focused on your subiect look for the operrure you ore using on either side ;5--*-*:*-. " ,1.; of the scole to determine the Depth-of-Field. Thus, lf thel comero is focused ot l0 feet ond the lens operture is f r 8 fhe Depth-of-Field (oreo in which oll obiects ore shorp) is from obout 8 ft. to 13 ft. You con olso use the depth-of-field scole to use your Yoshico os o fixed-focus comero. In this cose set the infinity mork on the distonce scole opposite the lens operture being used. lf the operture is f :8 you will notice thot oll objects from obout 25 feet to infiniiy will be shorp.View original page 14
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Your Yoshico-D occepts sunshodes ond filters'odopter rings in convenient Boyonet mounts
ihot reodily fosten to the 'toking' lens. A complete ronge of filters ond supplementory
lenses ore ovoiloble in the populor Series V size Boy Q 30.
Initiolly, you will find o yellow filter ideol for bringing out clouds in londscope pictures ond
{or generol uses. As you become more odvonced, you moy wont to use vorious filters,
such os oronge, green, etc. for different efiects. Your comero deoler will give you complete
informotion.
j! I Notice !
j Be sure to reploce the lens Cop when your comero is not in use. Keep your _!
comero owoy from dust ond moisture. For.cleoning the lens surfoce to remove l = dust or dirt, olwoys wipe very lightly by using cleon gouze or lens cleoning €: ', cloth. Do not wipe the lens with o dirty hondkerchief. When you ore not __L e using your comero for o long period do not leove the shutter set. In such i f
coses ploce lhe lens Cop over the lens tO ovoid exposure, qnd releose the =i
=l= shutter. a iView original page 15Related documents and language editions
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