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FUJICA
AUTO STROBO
300X
OWNER'S MANUAL
This manual will show you how to use your
FUJICA AUTO STROBO 300X correctly.
Please read it through carefully.
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SPECIAL FEATURES 1. Your Fujica Auto Strobo 300X is a high-power 3. Used on the Fujica AX-5, AX-3, AX-1, or AZ-1, series-circuitry computer flash (guide number it will automatically switch the camera's shutter 30). It provides an option of three apertures to speed to 1/60-sec. as soon as it is fully charged. let you freely take automatic flash pictures. For Since you can check the flash charge-up while example, if you want to take long-range flash looking through the viewfinder, you will not los
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SPECIFICATION Type Series-circuitry computer flash. Connection Hotshoe and clip-on type with safety lock. Guide Number 30 (ISO/ASA 100 m) with new batteries, 30 seconds after the neon lamp turns on. Guide number for bounce flash: 25 for main light, 6 for sublight. Flash Duration 1/1,000 ~ 1/30,000 sec. Angle of Coverage Covers the view angle of a 35 mm lens (35 mm format); with wideangle adapter attached, covers the view angle of a 28 mm lens (35 mm format). Recycle Time 9 sec. after lighting of
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NAMES OF PARTS Tilting Angle Scale Auto Check Lamp Main Lamp Face Flash Guide Disk Battery Compartment Cover Flash Ready Lamp Sub Lamp-Face Main Switch Test Button Sensor Auto/Manual Switch (Distance Selector) Wheel Lock 4
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LOADING THE BATTERIES How to load the batteries • Battery type Use four penlight batteries (AA size). Alkaline-manganese batteries are recommended because of their long service life. • Recycle time will be longer in cold weather because low temperatures will reduce bat- tery efficiency. Try to keep the batteries warm in cold weather by carrying them in your coat pocket until they 1. Remove the Battery Compart- 2. Insert four batteries, plus (+) are needed. ment Cover by pulling it out in and min
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• Battery life • On manual flash, a new set of alkaline-manganese batteries will provide about 150 flashes but it is always best to change them as soon as they start to show wear. If the recycle time lags to 30-second or more, the batteries should be considered exhausted. • Be sure to change the four bat- 4. After checking the batteries, teries all at once and make 3. Turn on the Main Switch. If be sure to turn off the Main sure all four are of the same the red Flash Ready Lamp Switch. brand and
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MOUNTING THE FLASH ON THE CAMERA TAKING FLASH PICTURES (I) • Setting the camera's shutter speed 1. If you are using the flash with a Fujica AX-series camera, the camera's shutter speed will automatically switch to 1/60 sec. (X-sync) as soon as it is fully charged, regardless of where the shutter speed dial has been set (except "B"). 2. If you are using it with the 1. Turn off the Main Switch. then turn the Wheel Lock Fujica AZ-1, the camera's 2. Loosen the Wheel Lock by clockwise to lock the fla
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Setting the Strobo's Distance Selector Setting the film speed • Setting the aperture Read off trie aperture indicated on the Flash Guide Disk for the color of the mark you selected and set the lens' aperture ring accordingly. Example: With ISO/ASA 100 film, the apertures to be set for the different colors are as follows: Red f/2.8 Green f/5.6 Yellow f/11 Set the Distance Selector on the Turn the Flash Guide Disk on the Strobo back and set the speed Strobo front to either the red, of the film you
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TAKING FLASH PICTURES(II) • If the Auto/Manual Switch is (Bounce-light pictures) set to M, your Auto Strobo If your subject is standing near a 300X will work as a manual- wall, you will get distracting operation flash having a guide shadows in your picture if you number of 30 (ISO/ASA100 m). flash it from the front. In this To find the correct aperture, divide the guide number by case, rotate the flash head upward the flash-subject distance, and so that it is indirectly illuminated set the apert
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angle of the flash head. A prac- bounced lighting are approxi- tical way of bounced lighting mately as follows: is to tilt the flash head 60° ~ Red mark 1 - 4m 90° so that the light reaches (3 ~ 12 ft.) the subject from the ceiling. Green mark 1 - 2m The tilting angles of the flash (3 ~ 6 ft.) Do not use the yellow mark. head depending on the shoot- ing distance are shown below. 4. The automatic flash range will Use this table only as a guide. differ depending on the reflect- ing surface. Before
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OFF-CAMERA USING THE WIDEANGLE ADAPTER FLASH OPERATION • Automatic flash range If you are taking flash pictures If the Wideangle Adapter is used, It is possible to use Auto Strobo the automatic flash range changes with a 28mm lens, attach the 300X away from the camera by as follows: Wideangle Adapter (included) to means of the PC synchro cord supplied. When employed in this the front of the flash lamp-face. Red mark ... . 1.5 - 7.6m way, always ensure that the total The illumination angle will t
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