Interchangeable Lenses; Super-Multi-Coated (Smc) Takumars; How To Make Deliberate Double Exposure - Honeywell Pentax Spotmatic Operating Manual

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55mm
f/l.8
If
you intend to take infra-red photographs, remember to use the small "R"
index marked on the depth-of-field guide.
however, like the above picture of Super-Takumar
have the "R" mark.
The index is just a short orange line.
First, focus your lens on your subject.
distance from the distance scale.
tance to the "R" mark by turning the distance scale accordingly.
instance, if your subject is in focus at infinity, turn the distance ring
and move the infinity
mark to the "R" index.
Coo)
The "R" index marking on the Takumar
setting at infinity.

How to make deliberate double exposure

For deliberate double exposures, make the first exposure in th~ normal way.
Then tighten the film by turning the rewind knob CD, a nd keep hold of the
rewind knob.
Depress the film rewind release button
wind lever.
This tensions the shutter without advancing the film.
release the shutter to make the second exposure.
exposure, before taking the next picture, to avoid overlapping.
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Infra-red photography
50mm
f/1.4
Some of the Takumar
lenses,
50mm f/1.4, do not
Determine
the lens to subject
Then match your lens to subject dis-
lenses is based on the lens
and cock the rapid
@
Finally,
Then make one blank

Interchangeable Lenses

The Honeywell Pentax offers many
interchangeable
iety of focal lengths, all of which are
highly respected by both professional
and amateur photographers for their
fine resolution.
coverage
of the various
lenses is illustrated on page 22. With
focal length longer than 55mm, the
subject image is seen through
viewfinder larger than its life size.
Fixed Focusing Setting
For
Because of the considerable
of field of wide-angle
can use them as fixed focus lens if
the diaphragm
are set properly.
venience::\he
Super-Takumar
,hown on \ge

Super-Multi-Coated (SMC) Takumars

Pentax
SMC Takumar
the world's first 7-layer multi-coated
lenses.
A truly remarkable
achievement.
Conventional
have only 1·3 layer coatings.
additional coating of SMC Takumar
lenses let in more lighting resulting
in truer
corors.
duced to 0.2% allowing the remain-
ing 99.8% of light to pass through.
This means higher light transmis-
sion, and the brightest lens possible.
Colors pass through with equal in-
Regardless of the lens selected for
your
Honeywell
lenses in a wide var-
never need for an accessory view-
finder, ordinarily required for range-
finder type cameras.
The
photographic
When interchanging
Takumar
lens by the distance scale ring. When
attaching
a lens, filter, or lenshood,
do not screw it too tightly, as you
the
may find it difficult to remove.
cus mark.
depth
lenses, you
dex the orange-colored
the diaphragm
and distance
scales
and the lens will be in fixed focus
from foreground to infinity.
For your con-
find this extremely
lenses
fast shooting.
23 hove a fixed fo-
tensity so color balance is strikingly
lenses are
improved.
reds.
Truer
optical
lenses
mar lenses make it possible.
no ghosts or flares even when shoot-
The
ing against
light is reflected off the grass sur-
face.
So, only true colors are ab-
Reflection
is re-
sorbed. Undesired rays are kept out.
SMC Takumar
interested in the ultimate in photo-
graphic lenses.
Pentax,
there
is
lenses, hold the
Just align with the in-
figures
of
and distance scales,
You'll
convenient
for
Brighter blues. Vibrant
yellows.
SMC Taku-
And,
the sun.
Ultra - violet
lenses are for people
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