Frame Counter - Canon A-1 Instructions Manual

To rewind the film, press in Lhc film rewind
button on the bottom of the camer a . Once
you have pressed it, you can remove your
finge r. Unfold the film rewind crank and
turn it in t
he direction of the small arr ow
until the frame co unter reaches the
"S"
mark. At this p oint only the film lead er will
not be rewound in
to the cartridge. Stop
rrwittding here if the film
is
only partially
exposed and you want to reload it at some
other time. Also, some developing labs pre-
fer the leader to remain protruding, and the
leader may also fJrevent
a11y
stray light from
cnlering the cartridge. Oth<::rwise you may
con t inu<:: to rewind
pa~t
"S" until you f'ecl
no further pressure on th e rewind crank.
Now pull the rewind knob up sharply to
open the back cover and remove th e
cartridge. It is preferable to place the ex-
posed cartridge back in the canister and to
have it de\•eloped as soon as possible.
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Frame Counter
The frame counter of the t\-1 is an additive
type. l t advances to the next numb er ,
indicating the number of frames already
exposed, each time the
film
is wound. l twill
not advance higher than 38. The numbers 0 ,
20
and
36
are marked in orange, the latter
two as a warning of the end or near-end of
films having those numbers of frames. This
frame counter
is
also coupled with the
rewinding operation so thaL it counts back
the frame numbe rs as the film is rewound. It
automatically rtclurus
Lo
"S" upon opening
the camera's back cover.
The fra m e co un tcr \vii 1 convcn. i cn Uy stop
during multiple exposures so that several
exposures on the same frame will not be
counted as separately exposed frames .