User manual MINOLTA VECTIS 260

[. . . ] Minolta (UK) Limited Minolta Austria Ges. Belgium Branch Minolta (Schweiz) AG Minolta Svenska AB Finland Branch Minolta Portugal Limitada Minolta Corporation Head Office Los Angeles Branch Minolta Canada Inc. Head Office Vancouver Branch Minolta Hong Kong Limited Minolta Singapore (Pte) Ltd. Shanghai Minolta Optical Products Co. , Ltd. 3-13, 2-Chome, Azuchi-Machi, Chuo-Ku, Osaka 541-8556, Japan Kurt-Fischer-Strasse 50, D-22923 Ahrensburg, Germany 365 Route de Saint-Germain, F-78420 Carrieres-Sur-Seine, France 7 Tanners Drive, Blakelands, Milton Keynes, MK14 5BU, England Amalienstrasse 59-61, A-1131 Wien, Austria Zonnebaan 39, P. O. [. . . ] · DEP, Double Exposure Prevention, prevents the camera from accepting exposed film. · This camera will only load film with the q mark current. 2. Without lifting your finger, recompose the picture then press the shutter-release button all the way down to take the picture. Visual Exposure Indicators · The current VEI has a white indicator behind it. FOR CLOSER SUBJECTS When your subject is closer than 1. 0m/3. 28 ft. , align the top of your image with the close-framing guide, using focus hold if necessary. · The close-framing guide is not visible in P format. 1. Turn the camera upside down and slide the filmchamber release in the direction indicated. · The film-chamber door will open partway. The ready lamp will blink rapidly and the shutter will lock when you are closer than the focus distance indicated below. Focal Length Print Format Focus Distance Wide All 0. 5m - (1. 64 ft. - ) Telephoto C or H P 0. 5m - 1. 4m - (1. 64 ft. Insert the cassette into the film chamber. REWINDING THE FILM Your camera automatically rewinds the film into the cassette after the last exposure. 3. Press the film-chamber door closed until it clicks. · The camera automatically advances the film to the first frame. 1. Wait for the film to completely rewind into the cassette. · The frame counter counts down during rewind. · appears and will blink in the data panel when the film is rewound. · The ISO (film speed) and number of frames remaining on the roll will be displayed in the data panel. · Film can be loaded when the camera is on or off. · If film is loaded with the camera off, all indicators in the data panel will disappear after the number of frames remaining is displayed. · Do not load film without an operational battery in the camera. 2. Turn the camera upside down and open the film chamber. 3. Remove the cassette. · The film's VEI indicator will be ". · Do not open the film chamber until the motor stops, appears, and blinks in the data panel. If blinks in the data panel, open the film chamber, then remove the film. - Your camera cannot load a cassette if the current VEI is , ", or s. - If a processed (VEI s) or partially exposed (VEI ) cassette was loaded into this camera, the VEI has been changed to ". · If all indicators blink in the data panel, remove and reload the film. Red-eye reduction reduces the "red-eye" effect which occurs when photographing people in low light. Press the flash mode button until in the data panel. appears · Warn your subject that the red-eye reduction lamp will blink before the picture is taken. 1. Press the Self-timer/Remote-control button until appears in the data panel. 2. Arrange the camera and subject positions, then compose you picture. 3. Point the remote control toward the front of the camera. · If the release button is pressed, the self-timer lamp will blink once before the picture is taken. If the delay button is pressed, the self-timer lamp will blink for two seconds before the picture is taken. [. . . ] 3. Press the select button until the item you want to change blinks. · Each press of the select button causes the next item to blink. The sequence is: ­> year - month - date - hour - minute - stops blinking 5. Press the adjust button to change its value. · Press and hold the adjust button to change the value rapidly. 4. Press the adjust button to change the blinking item. · Press and hold the adjust button to change the value rapidly. 5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 until all items are correct. 6. Press the date button to set the updated information. 6. Press the select button to make the next digit blink. Change its value using the adjust button. CHANGING THE DATE/TIME FORMAT 1. Close the front cover to turn the camera off. [. . . ]