Minolta SR-T 101 Owner's manual

t

I

Since

the

inception

of

through-the-lens expo-

sure meosuring

for

single

lens reflex

comeros,

3

severol

systems hove

been devetoped. Some

"spot"

reod

only o very

smotl

percent

of

the

'

lotol

oreo.

Other

syslems

provide

on

"overoge"

reoding

comprised of independent

meosurements

*,

.

token

by two

cells

which

ore

nof

occurole

in

high-controst

situolions.

Only the

Minolto

SR-T l0l hqs

sn

exclu-

sive new type

of

circuit

(CLC)

to

provide

on

oplimum

reoding

of

the entire

picture

oreo

regordless

of

degree of

controst.

In

oddition to

its more

occurqfe exposure

meter

system,

your

Minolto SR-T

l0l

is

designed

lo hondle

more eosily, with

greoter

speed, thon

other

"through-the-lens

melering"

comeros.

The

obility

to

compose, focus,

set

exposure

ond

shutter

speed without looking

owoy

from

the

(All

illustrotion

used

in this

booklet

ore with

finder mokes the

Minotto

SR-T l0l

porticulorly theF/I.4 lens. There is, however, nofundomenlol

suitoble

for

professionol

photogrophy...when

difference in

usoge between

the f

/1.4

ond

operoting speed

is

often

of

vitol imporlonce.

F/1.7

lens.)

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Conlents

Comero Ports

........ ............,..,2

Moior Feotures of the

Minolto SR-T

l0l

..................

4

Specificotions

of the

Minolto SR-T 101

......4

Before

Using Your

Minolto

SR-T

101.......................' 6

Insert the Mercury

Bottery......

........'......6

How to

Use

the

Bottery

Checker

............7

A

Quick

Guide to

Using

Your Minolto SR-T 101.........

8

Film

Looding

....."......-.....10

Shutter Speed

ond

Aperture Settings.

........,l3

TTL with

CLC, A

New

Exposure Meosuring

System

......15

ASA/DlN

Converting Scole

......'-........'....:........."...

I 6

Setting the

Correct Exposure

........'......---17

Holding the Comero

........-......20

Focusing

..............21

Lens

Aperture

Controls Depth-of-Field

.....................22

Depth-of-Field Toble of

MC Rokkor 58mm

F/1

.4

Lens...24

Depth-of-Field Toble of MC Rokkor 55mm

F/1.7 Lens...25

Checking

the

Ef f ects

of

Aperture Setting on Depth-o

f

-Field...27

Mirror Lock-Up Control.....

.......28

How to Use the Self-Timer

......29

Infrored Mork

for

Infrored Photogrophy

........'.........30

-9

Symbol Aides Close-Up

Photogrophy

....'.....'....30

Flosh Phologrophy

Attoching

Flosh Unit

.............'. ............31

Exposure

for Flosh Photogrophy

...........................32

How

to

Unlood the Film

.........32

Chonging Lenses

.....'34

Using Interchongeoble Rokkor Lenses other thon

MC Lenses

...'...............35

Auto Rokkor Lenses

...-...........35

Monuol

Pre-Set Rokkor Lenses

..............:.'.............35

Mointenonce

ond

Core of

the

Comerq

-....-37

Interchongeoble

Rokkor

Lenses for

Minolto SR-T 101

...38

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Comerq Ports

Film

Rewind ond

Bock Cover Open Knob

Accessory

Shoe

Penlop

rism

Shutter

ond

ASA

Speed

Diol

Film Advonce Lever

I

k

-\{_

tF

Shutter Releose

Butlon

Film

Counter

minollo

Meter

Coupler

Lens Rleose

Button

Diophrogm

Ring

Mirror

Lock-Up

Bufton

Deprh-of-Field

scole

Self-Timer

Lever

Distonce

Scol

Diophrogm

Sfop-Down

Builon

Focusing Rin

Rokkor Lens

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Rewind

Shoft

Bottery

Switch

Finder

Eyepiece

Tripod

Socket

Focol

Plone Shutter

Bottery

Cover

Film

Rewind Button

Film Toke-Up Spool

Film

Pressure

Plote

Moior

Feotures

of

rhe Minolto

SR-T I

Ol

l. Ropid-Reoding

Through-the-Lens

Exposure System

o)

Exposure

reodings token

with

lens

ot full

operture

for

ropid composing

ond

focusing regordless

of

subiect

br ightness.

b)

"Follower

type" needles in

viewfinder

show correct

exposure ot o

glonce...ot

ony combinotion of operture

ond shutter speed.

c)

Shutter

speed

scole

is

visible

in

viewfinder but outside

of

t'live"

picture

oreo.

d) Meosures only the light thot strikes the

film,

thus

eliminoting

the need to

compensote for chonges in lens

focol length or

to

compute

exposure

foctors f or filters,

bellows or other

lens

ottochments.

2. Combines the

Advontoges

of

"Spol"

cnd

"Averoging"

Exposure Reoding

Sysiems

o)

Exclusive

"CLC"

Metering System

(Controst

Light

Com-

pensotor)

mointoins extreme occurocy regordless

of

lighting

situotion, even with

high-controst subiects.

b)

Automoticolly

corrects for chonges

in light intensiiy

.

f

rom

one

section of

the

picture

oreo to

onother, thus

providing

on optimum overoll reoding.

c)

Oversized, instonf

return

mirror

prevents

imoge cut-off

ond incorrect exposure

reodings

no

motter how

long

the focol

length

of

lens.

d) Unique

positioning

of

CdS cells

prevents

incorrect

reodings due to light entering

viewfinder.

3.

World

Renowned

Rokkor

Lenses

Superior resolving

power

resulting

from

the

combi-'

noti on

of rore eorths,

potented

Achromotic

cooiing ond

computer

design.

4. Complete

System

of

Lenses

ond Acccssories forMqximum

Versotility.

o)

All Rokkor lenses

designed

for use with the

Minolto

SR-1,

SR-3

ond

SR-Z con be

used os stopped-down

meosuring

with

the

Minolto

SR-T l0l

b)

A voriety of occessories

ore ovoiloble to hondle neor.ly

ony

photogrophic

situotion.

Specificotions

of rhe Minolto

SR-T

I

Ol

-35mm

single lens reflex

comero with thru-the-lens

exposure

meter-

Stondord lens

MC

Rokkor-PF

58mm F/1.a

(or

55nnrF/1.7)

equipped with

meter

coupler.

Composition:

6 elements

in 5

groups

Cooting:

Achromotic cooting

Angle

of

view: 4lo (43')

Diophrogm:

Fully

outomotic

Diophrogm

scole: 1.4, (1.7),

2, 2.8, 4,

5.6, 8,

11,

l6

with

equol

spoce ond intermedioie

click F-stop.

Filter

mount:

Shode

mount:

Lens mount:

55QG20),

screw-in.

570G40),

slip-on.

SR boyonet mount

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Shutter

Focol

plone

shutter

Speeds,

8,1,1/2,1/4,1/8,1/15,1/30,

1/60,

1

/

125, 1

/250,

1

/500,

ond

l/1000 sec.

Diol:

Single, non-spinning, equol spoce,

click

stop

diol.

Synchro contoot:

Self

-timer:

Film

odvonce

Lever

type,

quick

double exposure

Winding method:

Winding

ongle'

Film counter:

Film rewinding:

Frome

size:

Film:

Viewf inder

Reol

imoge finder

through the f ixed,

eye-level

pentoprism.

Exposure control needles

(follower

type) ond

shutter

speed

scole

ore

visible

in finder.

Focusing

gloss:

Fine

microprism

ond

Fresnel lens

lmoge mognif icotion:

Lif e

size

imoge viewing

with 58

mm

lens

on infinity.

Viewing oreo:

33.7

X

22.4mm

Exposure

meter

Thru-the-lens

meter

Exposure

meter:

Controst

light compensotor

(C.L.C.)

CdS

meter,

two cells

on the

pentoprism.

FP(oll

speeds) ond X

(up

to 1/60sec.)

Time

odiustoble,

l0

sec.

moximum

deloy.

odvonce

winding wiih shutter tocking ond

prevention.

Single

or

severol strokes with cleor-

once to wind

(20").

I

500

Automotic resetting

counter

showing

exposed frome number.

Ropid rewinding with cronk.

36x24mm

Stondor

d

35mm

fi lm, 20 or

36

exposures.

Meosurement:

Controlling:

Working

.

ronge:

Diophrogm button:

Film speed ronge:

ASA

setting:

Botte

ry:

Switch:

Meosuring

ot f ull-operture opening

coupled to shutter speed,

operture

ond film

speed setting.

Follower

needle

system viewing

in

the

finder.

EV

3 to EV 17 on 100

ASA

film.

Depth-of-field

preview

buiton

for

MC

(meter

coupling) Rokkor lenses.

Meosuring

(stopped

-

down)

button

for other outomotic Rokkor lenses.

ASA 5-6400,

DtN 9-39.

On shutter speed

diol.

Built in ASA-DlN converting

scole on

the comero

bock.

Mollory RM-625R

or

its equ.ivolent.

ON,

OFF

ond

bottery

check

switch on

the

bose

of the

comero.

Bottery check mork in the

finder.

Focusing

Focusing with

fine

microprism ond

Fresnel

lens.

Minimum

focusing

Distonce: 2 ft.

(60cm)

Focusing

method: Direct

helicoid

focusing

Others' lnfrored

pointer

Mirror

Over-sized

quick

return

mirror

with

lock-up device

Others

Built

in occessory shoe.

Size

ond

weight

(with

F/1.4 lens)

(w)

5-3/4'

x

(D)

3-1/2'

x

(H)

3-314'

l45mmX 89mmX

94.5mm

35

oz.

(9909)

;u#;"r*r#i,.

Before Using Your Minolto SR-T I

Ol

flnsert

the

Mercury Bottery

,l"\

Remove

the

bottery chomber cover

with

your thumb

by

turning it

counter-clockwise. When the

cover is

removed,

ploce the

bottery

in

the chomber

with

its

plus

(1t

side

up

.

Be sure

not

to touch

the

bottery

terminols

with moist

or

uncleon

honds.

lf

stoined, the

bottery contocts

con deter

i-

orote,

moking

the bottery inoperotive.

.

Do

not

discord o

mercury

bottery

in

o

f

ire

or

breok

it

up.

.

When

the

comero

is not

being used,

it

is odvisoble

to turn

the

bottery

switch

on

the

bose of

the

comero

lo

the

"OFF"

position

The Minolto

SR-T

l0l

uses

o

.|.35V,

button-shope

mercury

bottery

for

photogrophic

opplicotions

(Mollory

PX

.|3,

PX 625,

RM-625R

or

equivolent)

.lf

the

comero

is

not to

be used

for

over

holf o month,

remove the

bottery

ond

store

it in o dty

ploce.

.

Before

putting

the

bottery

bock

in the

comero, cleon

both sides of

the

bottery

ond

the

contoct

leod of

the

bottery chomber with

dry cloth

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to

Use

the Bottery

Checker

'loT^r

*

."tr".",

frFf

Turn

the

bottery

switch

on

the

bose

of

the

comero

to

thc

"B

C

"

position

lf

the

indicotor

needle

points

to

the check

mork

os

shown

in

the

picture,

the

bottery

con be

regorded

os

functioning

properly

2

A

Gluick

Guide to

Using

Your Minolto

SR-T

l. Open the

comero

bock ond

insert

o stondord

20 or 36

exposures 35mm

film

mogozine

into the

film

chomber.

rol

3.

Advonce the film

odvonce

lever.

4. Set lhe

proper

exposure

by

turning

either

the

diophrogm

or

shulter

speed ring.

2.

Set the film

speed on

rhe ASA

diol.

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5 Compose

your

picfure

ond

focus

7

Aftet lhe film

rs

complefely exposed,

rewrnd rhe

filnr

inlo

?he rncroozirre

8. Op*n

th-

Film Looding

Roise

the bock

cover open

knob

(which

olso

rotes

the f ilm

rewind knob

)

until lt

stops.

o slight

odditionol

pull,

the

bock cover

mntienllrr

"^^."

^ao11.

f

YvV

vyv

Incorpo-

Then

wiih

will

oulo-

Ploce

the

{ilm

mogozine

inio the film chomber

ond

push

the

bock

cover open

knob

cll

the woy down

('y'y'hen

inserting

the

film

mcgczine,

its

proiecting

oxis

must

be

ploced

in

o downword

position.)

G)

o

n

x

1

0

o

c

l0

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3

Insert the

film leoder

into the

slot

in

spool,

moking

sure

o film

perforolion

the foolh in the

slot

the film

toke-up

is

engoged

wifh

Advonce

the

film

odvonce

lever

until

the film

slot

in

lhe toke-up

spool

foces upwcrd

Advonce

the film odvonce lever

in

severol

"shortt'

strokes

until both sides of

the

film

perforofions

ore

securely

engoged

with the teelh of

the

sprockef

geor.

l{

the film

odvonce

lever

locks during

this

procedure,

oress

the

shutter

releose butfon

ond

then

continue.

lt

5

Close

the

comero bock once

you

ore certoin

thot

the {ilm

is

securely engoged

in the toke.up

spool

ond

on both sides o{

the

sprocket

geor.

Rotote

the

film

rewind

cronk

genlly

in

the

direction

of

the

orrow

mork to

moke

sure

thot

the film is

flot

ogoinst

the pressure plote

A

Advonce

the

film

ond

press

the shutter

releose

button.

(f

Repeot

this

ocf ion

until

the number

"

1"

oppeors

ot

the orrow mork

in

the

film counter window.

.

The

film counter

indicofes the number of

oictures token

from

I

to

36.

.

The f

ilm odvonce lever hos o totol

"throw"

of

'l70

of

this

distonce,

the

first

20 hove

no

effect

on the film

but

ore

intended

to

provide

o

"f

ree

ploy"

ronge through

which

the

lever

moy

be

"offset"

from

fhe

body

for

ropid shooting.

.

When the

comero

bock

is opened, lhe counter outomoti

colly

resets itself to the

stort

(

S

)

position

t2

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Shutter

Speed

ond

Aperture

Setfings

The

shutter

speed

(octuolly

the

period

of

time

during

which

the

shutter remoins

open

)

works

in

con

junclion

wilh

lhe lens opening

(

operture

)

to

determine

the

omount

of

lighr striking rhe film

The higher

rhe

shuiler

speed, the

more

effectively

it

will momentorily

"stop"

the oction

of

vour

subiect.

To

set shuttcr

speed,

simply rofote

the

shutter

speed

diol

until

the desired

speed

is oligned

wirh

the

red indicotor

on

the

comero

body,

or until it

is

centered

belween

incl icotors

on lhe

shutter

speccJ

scole

in

the

viewfinder.

Thc figures

of

B

ond

I lhrouqh

1000

on

rho

shutter

speed diol

indicote

bulb

oction

ond

shutter speeds from

I

to l/l000th

second.

(At

"B"

the

shutter will

remoin

open

indefinitely

until

pressure

is rernoved

from

the releose

buiton.

)

The

operture

seiling controls

the

light volume

reoching

the {ilm

in terms

of oreo.

In oddition

ir determines

the

"depth,of

-f

ield".

(

Sec

pooe

22

)

l.)

F No.

lgr

(f

o@fJayapilzag

VolL m,.

-

2

|

ln

l,',| li8

l/t6

l,'32

l/5{

. "Click"

stops

ore

provided

Ior intermediote

operture

settings

between

ony

two

full F-stops.

Intermediote

shutte

r

speeds

connot be set.

.

The

figure

"B"

on

the

shutter

speed

diol

is

used

when

on exposure

durotion

of over

lsecond

is required.

.

The

red

figure of

"60"

on

the shutter speed

diol is

to

be

used

in coniunction

with on electronic

flosh

unit.

.

The

shutter

speed

ot

which the comero

is

set

is

shown

on

the

shutter

speed

scole

visible

in the vie'arfinder.

.

Since

light

striking

the

film ls offected by

o combinotion

of

operture

ond shutter

speed,

exposure

con be

odiusted

by

chonging

either or both settings.

The

index

f

or

the operture

setlin

is lhe

diomond

(

'.

)

symbol

in

front

of

the

diophrogm

ring. The

ring is engroved

with

figures

from

1.4 through

16

for

the MC

Rokkor

58mm

t

14 stondord

lens

When

the shutter speed

remoins constont,

the light

possing through

the lens decreoses 50tr.,

f

or

every

increose

in

the

operture

(

F

)

number.

(

Exomple,

When

the

diophrogm

ring

is

turned

f

rom

2 8

to 4

the light

volume

decreoses

50'+r. t

As

the

operture

f igure decreoses,

the light

possing

through

the lens

increoses. The

relotion

between

operture

(F

Number)

ontl liqht

vc>lurttr'

(Ir

{'

shctwrr

irt

lht'

rliclqrorn

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TTL

with

CLC,

A New Exposure

Meosuring

System

Minolto

SR-T l0l comero

hos through-the-lens

meosuring

system

with

CLC

meter.

Minollo's exclusive,

revolutionol

CLC

(Controst

Light

Compensotor)

promises

better

photogrophic

results

with

multiple

split exposure

meosuring

system.

Under

normol

'photo-toking

conditions

lhis

new

system

gives

excellent

results,

under

olher

conditions,

such

os

high-controst

scene,

the

CLC

feoture

prevents possible

photo

foilures.

CdS

Cell

(

CLC

Meter

)

ASA/DIN

Converting

Scole

When

convert:r.g

o

DIN

spced

to

the

corresponding

ASA

speed

or

when

beoring

the

film

speed

in mind,

use

this

converting

scole. Turn the

knob

of

the

diol

ond

set

the

f ilm

speed to

the

white poinrer

mor

ked

wirh

ASA.

In

the

crse

of the

ASA

lc0 f

ilm

f

or

exomplc,

ser

the

f

ilrn

speed os

shown in thc picture.

(The

inncr

groduotions

orc

for

the

DIN).

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Setting

the

Correct

Exposure

I

Set the

ASA

Speed

Lift ond

rotote

the

shutter

speecl

diol

until the

figure

r

6

to

6400

I

which

corresponcis

with rhc

ASA roting

of

your

film

is visil>lc

in

thc

ASA

winrlow

through-the-lens

metering

nd

exposure

reodings

with

notic

MC

(meter

coupling

r

rgeoble

lenses

without

the

lesigned

f

or Minolto

SR_ l,

on

be occurotely

meosured

eosurement

systenr.

(See

o

ol

J

on

In

o

c(

m(

rl

n

t

IC

I

li

ot

_T

t0

its

vie

n

whe

being

(or

in1

(ony

tros

),

ped

d

cltons

SR

rlffi

r\o7

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rc

okk

fn

)me

opl

trur

re

PI

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lp

lrc

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ror

on

lo

str

)e

o

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