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Nikon
INSTRUCTION MANUAL
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NOMENCLATURE CD Shutter speedlASAIiSO film speed ADR window @ ® Shutter release button Meter coupling lever @ ® Shutter release fingerguard Sync cord terminal @ Lens mounting index @ ® Depth-of-field preview lever Focusing screen release latch @ Lens release button @ ® Self-timer lever (J) Lens flange Reflex mirror @ ® Film advance lever Film sprockets ® ® Serial number ® @J Viewfinder eyepiece (jj) Rewind fork @ Shutter curtains @ Film cartridge chamber ® Film guide pin @ Film g
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Distance scale @ Focusing ring @ Aperture scale @ Aperture ring @ @ Meter coupling shoe ADR scale ® @ Meter coupling ridge Shutter speed index ® ® Hot-shoe contact @ R .. "nv-linlht contact Shutter speed dial ® @ Accessory shoe Multiple exposure lever @ Frame counter @ ® Camera back lock lever ASAIISO film speed indicator ® @ Film rewind knob @ Film rewind crank ASA/ISO film speed dial ® ® Film plane indicator Tripoc socket @ @ Motor drive shutter coupling Motor drive electric
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CONTENTS--------------------------- ACCESSORIES ... . .... ........ . . . . . .. . .. . . . . .. . 36-44 NOMENCLATURE . .......... . . .... ... . ..... . .. ... . 2-3 Interchangeable focusing screens .. .... ... . . . . . 36- 37 FOREWORD . . .. . ....... . . . . . . . .. . . . ........ . ..... ... 5 BASIC OPERATION .. .... . . ........ ... . ......... . 6-15 Close-up equipment. .............................. 38 Motor Drive MD-12 ........ ....... . . .. .. . . . . .. .. . . . . 39 CONTROLS
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FOREWORD--------- Thank you for your purchase of the Nikon FM2 and welcome to Nikon's world of photography. The Nikon FM2 offers many special features including top shutter speed of 1/4000 sec., and flash synchronization speeds as fast as 1/250 sec. The FM2 also incorporates a TTL full·aperture metering system and high-precision mechanically-controlled shutter curtains. These features enable full manual operation and mechanical control-the FM2 works without batteries at all speeds, for a
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BASIC OPERATION------------ " 2 Install the baUery. 1 Remove the battery 3 Put the battery chamber • chamber lid 58 • • Wipe the battery terminals clean • lid back in Its place. and insert the batteries, making sure that Use a coin to unscrew the lid in a counter Slip the battery clip back into the camera the + signs are up. Usable batteries are : clockwise direction. body baseplate and screw it clockwise • 3V lithium battery (1 unit) tightly into place. • 1.55V silver-oxide batteries,
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4 Pull out the film advance 6 Check battery power. 5 Press the shutter • lever (lI to unlock the • release button lightly to • Switch the exposure meter on while looking through the viewfinder. If one or shutter release button (g • switch the exposure meter two of the red LED exposure indicator The film advance lever doubles as a on. lamps inside lights up this would mean shutter release button lock. You can un The shutter release button activates the normal condition. lock the shutt
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-BASIC OPERATION-continued---------- 7. Mount the lens onto the camera. 8 Open the camera back 60 • • Place the lens onto the camera, lining up the aperture/ • Push the camera back lock lever ® focusing index @ on the lens with the lens mounting index ® counterclockwise with your index finger on the camera body. Then twist the lens mounting ring ~ while lifting the film rewind knob @. The camera back will pop open. counterclockwise until it clicks into place. Confirm that the is right on t
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9 Install the film cartridge. Wind the film advance 10 Insert the film leader 11 • Position the film cartridge in the • In the takeup spool. • lever to advance film film cartridge chamber @ with the film Pull the leader across gently and insert it onto the takeup spool. leader pointing towards the takeup spool into one of the slots in- the film takeup Wind the film advance lever and depress @, and push the rewind knob back down spool. Slowly rotate the takeup spool the shutter relea
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-BASIC OPERATION-continued---------- Close the camera Make blank exposures 13 Take up film slack. 14 12 • Fold out the film rewind crank • until the frame • back. @ and rotate it in the direction of the counter 53 reaches frame 1. Close the camera back until it snaps shut, arrow on the film rewind knob until it making sure that the perforations are Press the shutter release button and wind stops. Then fold the crank back in. perfectly meshed with the sprockets and the film advance le
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15 Set the ASAIISO film 16 Hold the camera and • point It at the subject. • speed. Lift the ASA/ISO film speed ring CD and Basic holding posture: Use your left hand rotate it in either direction until the red to cradle the camera, with your fingers ASAIISO film speed indicator ® is oppo wrapped around the lens and the elbow propped against your body for support, as site the ASAIISO film speed indication in use. Unless the film speed is set correctly, you look through the viewfinder. Use
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-BASIC OPERATION-continued---------- 1l Set the correct exposure. Important! Intermediate settings of lens aperture but not of shutter • First, position your main subject at the center (i.e., the speed are usable. 12mm-diameter circle) of the field of view inside the viewfinder. Nota: The meter reads the light over the entire focusing screen but has Then turn the shutter speed dial ® and/or lens aperture ring @ a distinct bias on the central 12mm-diameter area. until the LED lamp for the
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18 Focus on the subject • by rotating the lens focusing ring 46 • The FM2 is provided with the Type K2 fo cusing screen as standard. Look through the viewfinder while turning the focusing ring until the two halves of the split image rangefinder coincide perfectly to form a single unbroken image and the image in the microprism grid appears sharp. Cor rect focus will then be secured. 13
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-BASIC OPERATION-continued----------- 19 Depress the shutter 20 Advance the film. 21 Press the film rewind • release button. • Wind the film advance lever as • button '43 • far as it will go to transport the film to the Look through the viewfinder, and depress After the last exposure has been made, next frame and ready the camera for the turn the camera upside down and press the shutter release button. In depressing next shot. Do not apply excessive pres the shutter release button, apply
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24 Put the film advance 22 Rewind the film. 23 Remove the film • lever back into place. • Lift the film rewind crank and • cartridge. turn it in the direction of the arrow. At the Push the camera back lock lever in the Close the camera back and push the film end of film rewind, you will feel a slight direction of the arrow as you lift the film advance lever into place. When you're resistance. Continue winding one or two rewind crank to open the camera back. not using the camera, you shou
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CONTROLS IN DETAIL----------- Film advance lever ® Frame counter ®l The film advance lever also functions as a lock for the shutter The additive type frame counter is graduated from S· ·1 24- release button. The shutter release button is unlocked when the up to 36 in even numbers with odd numbers indicated by white is pulled out to the standoff position. To advance the film, in between the even numbers. Even if there 's no film in the lever dots camera, the frame counter is operative, advanc
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Shutter re.e •• e button ® The shutter release button also serves to activate the FM2's slower, it is advisable to attach the camera to a tripod and use built-in exposure meter. When the film advance lever is in the a cable release to release the shutter; this will prevent camera flush position, the shutter release button is locked and will not shake which results in blurred photographs. The cable con operate. To release the button from its locked position, pull out nector can be screwed int
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-CONTROLS IN DETAIL-continued--------- . - , '. " - • • I .:.-:: . • ASAIISO film speed dial ® Shutter speed dial ® 'exposure The ASAIISO scale on the dial has numbered settings for determination speeds from ASAIISO 12 to 6400. The dots between each pair of Setting the shutter speed ASAIISO numbers stand for intermediate settings, such as 64, To set the shutter speed, turn the shutter speed dial to the right 80, etc. The illustration above gives the speeds for all inter or left until
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Fast shutter speed SlOw snutter speed 19
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- CONTROLS IN DETAIL-continued--------- Setting the aperture The lens aperture determines the amount of light reaching the Nikon Series E lenses enable full-aperture light measurement film plane. Generally, when you turn the aperture ring one even when the aperture ring is moved. These lenses, which are graduation in the direction of the larger numbers, the amount is said to have an automatic diaphragm, stop down to the set reduced by 1/2. (This is what stopping down by one graduation apertu
