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Panel
Flash
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Button
Lug
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Socket Fe
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Auxiliary Rewind Button
Mode
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Contacts
Index
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Lock Button
Scale
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Scale
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Scale Window
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Set
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battery
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touch
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reduce the slack.
to
read film speed.
To remove smudges,
dry cloth.
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REWINDING A ROLL OF FILM IN MID-ROLL
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this function. First, turn on the camera's
use
film
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exposing all the
Main Switch, and then depress the auxiliary
button with the
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Cover
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the
panel
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OPERATIONS
This camera comes
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modes. This section deals
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automated
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matically
according to
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shooting,
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selects the
shutter speed and
the subject brightness.
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to
aperture
aperture ring.
as shown.
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