Polaroid Spectra AF SE, Spectra SE User Manual

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Camera
cause
be
blurry.
is
can
taken in shade,
stay
as 2.8
move-
pic-
the
Hold
you
as place
firm
the
camera
take
the
camera
support.
the
steady
picture,
on
a
or
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Repeated
pattern
bar
spots
or
Cause
Developer
film door
the
ned.
clea
rollers
need to
inside
be
Solution
.
film door
Open
light
direct remove ing rollers,
lint-free
a
with dampened
(do
film).
clean
with
in in-
not
While
them
cloth
water.
turn-
Damaged
picture Cause
.
Picture
forth or
and
after
me ra.
ca
.
Picture slot, down
rface.
su
was shaken
bent
it ejected
left
was
camera
and
table
on a
back
shortly
from the
in
the
was set
other
or
exit
.
.
Solution
60 seconds
During development, print by and bend
slot
first
gently;
wide
its
do
it.
Remove
as soon
not
print
hold
white
wave
as
handle
it onlY
border,
or
from exit
it
ejects.
of
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Subject
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too
dark
Gause
Camera's sured
the
light,
causing
to be
too
photocell bright
window
the
dark.
mea-
subject
Solution
.
Reposition
from
the
g
rou
nd.
subject
bright
away
back-
Background
too
dark
.
When
a bright
(lamplight,
light light,
etc.)
part
of
the
front
of
the camera's measure
causing too
Gause
Background
from
Subject
beyond
the
dark.
subject.
may
flash
source
candle-
is in
the
scene
and in
subject,
photocell
the
bright
subject
was
too far
have
range.
of
central
the
will
light,
to
be
been
.
Move
the
to
one
side
ject
so it
Solution
subject
control
15
feet
keep
the normal
part
and keep
central
Place ground
ture
position.
Stay within 2to
and trol in tion.
source
of
is not
of
near
in
flash
(.6m
picture
the
of light
your
sub-
in
the
the
scene.
a
back-
pic-
the
the normal
range
of
to 4.6m1,
con-
posi-
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Picture
too
or
too blue
redlyellow
Gause
Pictures taken at
below 55'F
atures
have a blue
can
temper-
(13'C)
tint.
Solution
weather,
In cold
camera
possible.
as
place
developing
in a warm
minute, being
least a
careful
not
film
and
lmmediately
pocket
bend
to
keep
warm
as
picture for at
it.
Pictures taken at temper-
above
atures
have a
can tint.
95"F
red or
(35"C),
yellow
Avoid storing
places,
hot
film in
glove ments of heat source, ra d iato
luggage compart-
or
a car, or
r.
camera
such
and
such
near
a
as
as
a
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onlyl
Polaroid Spectra 8
For details, order form in
For information Reprint
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your
inches.
offers
photographs
see the
ejected when
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of
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tips
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the scene in toys or flowers
Distance
You when era and
Background
Indoors,
Outdoors, keep Gomposition
When in dimension
bold colors
can take the
they are
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attention
the
15).
try to have
photographing
foreground
(picture
(pictu
the viewfinder.
focuses
are vividly
re
141. Look
can add interest
pleasing
most
3 to 5 feet
Backgrounds
on
a light-colored
the
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landscapes,
to establish a feeling
17).
reproduced
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Colorful
(.9m
to 1.5m)
become less
your
subjects.
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background.
simple
include
people
of
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the cam-
distracting
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something
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or
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Gamera, film specifications
Aperture/shutter specifications Apertures: Shutter to 2.8
Gamera Length: Width: Height:
Camera 1 lb.
without
trom f/10
speeds: trom
seconds.
body size
6.82 inches
5.46 inches
3.07 inches weight
12 1/2
oz.
a film
Film advance Automatic ized
Film Outer
(10.1 f mage
(9.1 Film
ISC Film
Polaroid only. Starts seconds.
film
picture
ejection.
size
border: 4 x 4.06
x 10.3cm)
area:
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x 7.2cm)
speed
(approx.)
600/29s
type
Spectra color film
developing in
Ten
Lens
lass-coated,
G 125mm
lens
focusing
system. Ten-zone
from 2 feet
infinity.
system
to tl45.
11245
(17.3cm)
(13.87cm)
(7.78cm)
(.8k9
approx.),
pack.
advance; motor-
inches
x2.90
inches
pictures
front
per pack.
element
(.6m
)
Photocell
Dual-filter, Green filtered visible
light; measures infrared better indoor
Power
source
A fresh,
6-volt battery
pack powers
film
functions.
Programmed Built-in fill
indoors
used Recharge
time:
seconds. Flash
1i3000
to
flash
(.6m
U20,000
to 4.6m).
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f
feet Sonar autofocus
puterized
Com tem uses sound sure accurately your
subject Sonar ranging 50 thousandths
photodiodes.
silicon
cell measures
black filtered
light for
flash
exposures.
all
flash
flash
designed
and outdoors.
from
duration: from
of a second.
range: from
system
a utofocus
waves
the distance
and set
time: from 10
of a second.
in
each
camera
to be
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to
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appear
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