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Asahi Pentax ES Operating Manual Excerpts
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Asahi Pentax ES Operating Manual Excerpts Table of Contents NOMENCLATURE ........................................................................................................................................................2 SPECIFICATIONS .......................................................................................................................................................4 HOW IT WORKS.............................................................................................
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Asahi Pentax ES Operating Manual Excerpts NOMENCLATURE Reproduced for Historical and Reference Purposes by Paul M. Provencher http://whitemetal.com Not For Resale. 2
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Asahi Pentax ES Operating Manual Excerpts SPECIFICATIONS Type 35mm TTL-metering single-lens reflex camera with focal plane electronic shutter for automatic exposure control. Film and Picture Size 35mm film (20 ir 36 exposures). 24mm x 36mm. Standard Lenses Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 50mm f/1.4 and 55mm f/1.8 with fully automatic diaphragm. 7 elements in 6 groups. Distance scale: 0.45m (1.5 feet) to infinity. Filter size: 49mm. With depth-of- field scale. Shutters TTL-metering electronic shut
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Asahi Pentax ES Operating Manual Excerpts Film Rewind Rapid rewind crank. Film rewind button on base of camera body releases film from take-up spool for rewind. Film Exposure Counter Automatic re-set type. Cocked Indicator A red disk appears in a small window alongside the shutter release button when the shutter is cocked, and blacks out when it is released. Lens Mount 42mm thread (Pentax-mount). Flash Synchronization FP + X contacts for conventional flash cord connection. X contact on hot sho
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Asahi Pentax ES Operating Manual Excerpts A silver battery is packed separately. Be sure to insert it into the battery housing before operating the camera. For insertion, refer to HOW IT WORKS page 19. 1. Load your film and set ASA 2. Keep this at "1x" for normal 3. Pre-select f/stop film speed. exposure. 5. Keep this lever down for open- aperture exposure reading. (Lens aperture stays fully open, and stops down to pre-selected f/stop as you depress shutter release.) Move it up for depth- of
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Asahi Pentax ES Operating Manual Excerpts 6. TTL Meter Reading. Softly depress the shutter button. Electric circuit is now switched on. Meter needle starts moving and indicates correct shutter speed. 7. Electronic memory device stores exposure reading information, whether through open- aperture or stopped-down aperture. 8. Depress shutter button completely. 9. Memory device automatically releases electronic shutter. CORRECT EXPOSURE Reproduced for Historical and Reference Purposes by Paul M.
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Asahi Pentax ES Operating Manual Excerpts FILM LOADING AND Avoid direct light when loading your film WINDING 1. Open the back by pulling out 2. Place the film cassette properly into the cassette chamber, and the rewind knob until the back push down the rewind knob. Insert the film leader into the slot of the cover snaps open. take-up spool. 3. Advance the film by alternately 4. Cock the rapid wind lever, and watch to see that the film rewind turning the rapid wind lever and knob automatically t
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Asahi Pentax ES Operating Manual Excerpts SETTING ASA FILM SPEED The ASA film speed is given in the data sheet packed with each roll of film. The higher the ASA number, the more sensitive the film. Lift the outer ring of the exposure factor control dial, and turn it until the same number as the ASA number of the loaded film appears in the ASA speed indicator window. FILM TYPE REMINDER DIAL Use this dial as a reminder of the type of film loaded. To set the dial, pull out the rewind knob softly,
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Asahi Pentax ES Operating Manual Excerpts EXPOSURE FACTOR CONTROL DIAL The scale (4x 2x 1x 1/2x ) indicates exposure factor Turn the outer ring of the film type dial, and set 1x against the orange arrow for normal exposures. Use this control only when necessary to give intentional over- or under-exposures within the range of these factors while working on "AUTOMATIC". For example, set the dial at 2x or 4x when shooting against the light, and at 1/2x against dark backgrounds. In addition, the d
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Asahi Pentax ES Operating Manual Excerpts DIAPHRAGM SETTING Set the shutter speed dial at "AUTOMATIC". Rotate the diaphragm ring to pre-select the desired aperture such as follows: Fine weather……………..f/8 - f/11 Cloudy weather………….f/4 - f/5.6 Indoor……………………f/2 - f/2.8 This is a rough guide to acquaint you with the automatic shutter operation. As you get used to it, you will have your own yardstick for aperture pre-selection depending on your subject and lighting conditions. The shutter speed of
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Asahi Pentax ES Operating Manual Excerpts TTL METERING AND AUTOMATIC SHUTTER For open-aperture reading, be sure that the stop-down lever is DOWN. After cocking the rapid wind lever, press the shutter release button lightly to switch on the electric circuit. The meter needle in the viewfinder indicates the correct shutter speed. If the needle goes above "1000", close down the diaphragm until the needle moves below "1000". If the needle goes below "1", the shutter speed indicates an exposure lon
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Asahi Pentax ES Operating Manual Excerpts OPEN-APERTURE OR STOP-DOWN READING With the new Super-Multi-Coated (SMC) Takumar lenses with an open-aperture reading pin (1), mounted directly on the ES camera body, the TTL meter reads exposure through the fully open aperture or stopped-down taking aperture for correct automatic exposure. For open-aperture reading, the stop-down lever should be DOWN; for stop-down reading, push up the lever. With all other lenses or when using Extensi
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Asahi Pentax ES Operating Manual Excerpts MECHANICAL SHUTTER In addition to the electronic shutter for the automatic exposure control, the ES has a mechanical shutter for speeds 1/60 X for electronic flash synchronization, 1/125, 1/250, 1/500. 1/1000 sec. plus B (Bulb). To operate at any one of these speeds, just turn the shutter dial from "AUTOMATIC" to the desired speed setting. Now the electric circuit and the TTL meter circuit are off. Reproduced for Historical and Reference Purposes by Pau
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Asahi Pentax ES Operating Manual Excerpts FILM UNLOADING After the final picture on the roll has been taken, the rapid wind lever will not turn, indicating that the film must be rewound. Unfold the rewind crank. Depress the film rewind release button and turn the rewind crank as indicated to rewind the film into the film cassette. Rewind until the tension on the crank lessens, indicating that the leader end of the film has been released from the take-up spool. Pull out the film rewind knob (the
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Asahi Pentax ES Operating Manual Excerpts BATTERY CHECK AND REPLACEMENT A silver battery powers the TTL meter and electronic shutter. The power circuit is on only when you depress the shutter release (lightly for meter reading and completely for electronic shutter) with the shutter speed dial set at "AUTOMATIC". When not operating the camera, be sure to keep the shutter dial off the "AUTOMATIC" setting and set to any mechanical shutter setting, so that you prevent wasting battery power if the
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Asahi Pentax ES Operating Manual Excerpts FLASH SYNCHRONIZATION The Pentax ES as FP and X terminals at the front of the camera body, and an additional X contact on the built- in hot shoe atop the pentaprism housing, As indicated in the table, set the shutter dial at 1/60 X for electronic flash, and the flash cord plugged into the X terminal. Set the shutter dial at 1/60 or faster for FP class flash bulb, with the cord plugged into the FP terminal. Use the hot shoe flash contact when using a sh
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Asahi Pentax ES Operating Manual Excerpts DEPTH-OF-FIELD GUIDE If you want to know how great the depth of field is in focus at the lens opening. You will note from the at a certain aperture, look at the depth-of-field depth-of-field guide in the photograph that the guide. In the above photograph, the distance scale range from approximately 4.5 to 6.5m is in focus. scale is set at 5 meters…the lens is focused on a Note that as the lens apertures change, the subject 5 meters away. The calibrati
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Asahi Pentax ES Operating Manual Excerpts INFRA-RED PHOTOGRAPHY If you intend to take infra-red photographs, remember to use the infra-red index marked with an orange line or a small "R" on the depth-of-field guide. First focus your lens on your subject. Determine the lens-to-subject distance from the distance scale. Then match your lens-to-subject distance to the infra-red index by turning the distance scale accordingly. For instance, if your subject is in focus at infinity, turn the distanc
