Focus And Focus Indication At The Lens - Sinar Medium Format Camera System Hy6 Operating Manual

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Focus and Focus Indication at the Lens

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Fig. 8 / 14 Focus indication at the lens
The Sinar Hy6 system is delivered with an AFD 2.8 / 80mm lens that permits the manual
setting of the focus at the focusing ring 4.
Set the aperture 1 manually. The f-number that is located over the
Aperture ring
white bar is applied. Press the red button at the lens to unlock the
aperture ring.
Indicates the focal distance 3 in meters or feet. The white bar above
Focusing window
the window indicates the applied value.
The depth of field can be checked with the yellow numbers above of
Depth of field
the focusing window. The depth of field in the image is marked with
a white arrow.
Set the focus manually. Manual focusing has to be activated at the
Focusing ring
camera body,
To use the automatic exposure functions "Programmed Auto Exposure" (P)
and "Shutter Priority" (S), or to use the Front Control Wheel W1 at the hand
grip, the aperture ring has to be set to "A" (automatic), otherwise the
automatic functions are locked and the f-number set with the aperture ring is
applied.
For a more detailed explanation, please refer to
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chapter 9 "Focusing".
Aperture ring with f-numbers (only
non-AFD-lenses).
Indication of the depth of field
Indication of the focal distance
Focusing ring
chapter 10 "Focusing".
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