Minolta SR-T 101 User manual

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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 comprisedof independent
meosurements *, .
token by two cells which ore nof occurole in
high-controstsituolions.
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
metersystem, your Minolto SR-Tl0l is designed
lo hondle moreeosily, 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-Tl0l porticulorly theF/I.4 lens.Thereis,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
ComeroPorts
........ ............,..,2
Moior Feoturesof the Minolto SR-T l0l .................. 4
Specificotions
of the Minolto SR-T101 ......4
Before
UsingYour Minolto
SR-T
101.......................'6
Insertthe Mercury
Bottery...... ........'......6
How to Use the
Bottery
Checker ............7
A Quick Guide to Using Your Minolto SR-T101.........
8
Film
Looding ....."......-.....10
ShutterSpeed ond Aperture Settings. ........,l3
TTLwith CLC, A New Exposure Meosuring System
......15
ASA/DlN ConvertingScole
......'-........'....:........."...
I6
Settingthe Correct Exposure ........'......---17
Holdingthe Comero ........-......20
Focusing ..............21
Lens
Aperture Controls Depth-of-Field
.....................22
Depth-of-FieldToble of MC Rokkor 58mm F/1
.4 Lens...24
Depth-of-FieldToble of MC Rokkor 55mm F/1.7 Lens...25
Checking
the
Effects
of
ApertureSettingonDepth-o
f -Field...27
Mirror Lock-UpControl..... .......28
How to Use the Self-Timer ......29
InfroredMork for Infrored Photogrophy
........'.........30
-9 Symbol Aides Close-Up Photogrophy
....'.....'....30
Flosh Phologrophy
Attoching
FloshUnit .............'. ............31
Exposure
for FloshPhotogrophy
...........................32
How to Unlood the Film .........32
Chonging Lenses .....'34
Using Interchongeoble Rokkor Lenses other thon
MC Lenses ...'...............35
Auto RokkorLenses ...-...........35
Monuol
Pre-SetRokkorLenses
..............:.'.............35
Mointenonce
ond Core of the Comerq -....-37
Interchongeoble
Rokkor
Lensesfor Minolto SR-T101
...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
RokkorLens
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Rewind Shoft
Bottery Switch
Finder Eyepiece
Tripod Socket
Focol Plone Shutter
Bottery Cover
Film RewindButton
FilmToke-UpSpool
Film
Pressure
Plote

Moior Feotures of rhe Minolto SR-T I Ol
l. Ropid-Reoding Through-the-Lens Exposure System
o) Exposure reodingstoken
with
lens
ot full
operture
for
ropid composing
ond focusingregordless of subiect
brightness.
b) "Follower type" needles in viewfinder show correct
exposureot o glonce...ot onycombinotionof 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
theneedto compensotefor chongesinlens
focol lengthor to compute
exposure
foctors for 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) mointoinsextreme 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 optimumoveroll reoding.
c) Oversized,instonf
return mirror prevents
imoge cut-off
ond incorrectexposure
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-'
notion 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-Zcon be used os stopped-down
meosuring
with the Minolto SR-Tl0l
b) A voriety of occessories
ore ovoilobleto hondleneor.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
58mmF/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.
SRboyonetmount
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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/1000sec.
Diol: Single,non-spinning,equolspoce,
click
stop
diol.
Synchro contoot:
Self
-timer:
Film odvonce
Lever
type, quick
double exposure
Winding method:
Winding ongle'
Filmcounter:
Filmrewinding:
Frome size:
Film:
Viewfinder
Reol imogefinder through the fixed, eye-level pentoprism.
Exposure control needles (follower type) ond shutter
speed scole ore visible in finder.
Focusing
gloss: Fine
microprism
ond Fresnellens
lmogemognificotion: Life 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
onthe
pentoprism.
FP(oll
speeds)ond X
(up to 1/60sec.)
Time
odiustoble,
l0 sec.
moximum
deloy.
odvonce windingwiih shuttertocking ond
prevention.
Single
or severolstrokes with cleor-
once to wind (20").
I
500
Automotic resetting counter showing
exposed frome number.
Ropidrewinding with cronk.
36x24mm
Stondor
d
35mm
film,20or 36 exposures.
Meosurement:
Controlling:
Working .
ronge:
Diophrogm button:
Filmspeed ronge:
ASA setting:
Botte
ry:
Switch:
Meosuring ot full-operture opening
coupled to shutter speed, operture
ond film speed setting.
Follower
needle
systemviewing
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 shutterspeed diol.
Builtin 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
Focusingwith fine microprismond 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)
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Before Using Your Minolto SR-T I Ol
flnsert the Mercury Bottery
,l"\
Remove
the
botterychombercover with your thumb
by turningit counter-clockwise.When the cover is
removed,
ploce the bottery
in thechomber with its
plus
(1t
side up
. Be sure
not to touch the
bottery
terminols
with moist
or
uncleon
honds.
lf
stoined,the
botterycontocts
condeter
i-
orote, moking
the bottery inoperotive.
. Do not
discordo mercury
bottery
in
o f ire
or breok it
up.
. When the
comero
isnot
beingused,
it
isodvisoble
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,
PX625,
RM-625R
or equivolent)
.lf the comero
is not to be used
for over holfo month,
remove the bottery ond store it in o dty ploce.
. Before putting
the bottery bock in the comero, cleon
both sidesof the bottery ond the contoct
leod of the
botterychomberwith dry cloth
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fHow to Use the Bottery Checker
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."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
conbe
regorded
os functioning
properly
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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
thebock
coveropen
knob
(which
olso
rotes
the film
rewind knob
) untillt 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 thewoy 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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3Insertthe filmleoder
intothe
slot
in
spool,
moking
sure
o film
perforolion
the foolh in the slot
thefilm
toke-up
is
engoged
wifh
Advonce
the film odvonce
lever
until
thefilm
slot
in
lhe toke-up
spool foces upwcrd
Advonce
the filmodvonce lever in severol
"shortt'
strokes
untilboth sidesof the
film
perforofions
ore
securely
engoged
withtheteelhof the sprockef
geor.
l{ thefilm
odvonce
lever
locksduring
this
procedure,
oress
the
shutter
releosebutfon
ond
then
continue.
lt

5Close the comero bock once you ore certoin thot
the {ilm
is securelyengoged in the toke.up
spool
ond on both sideso{ the sprocket geor.
Rotote
the film rewind
cronk
genlly
in
the
direction
of the
orrow morkto moke sure
thot the film is flot
ogoinst
the pressureplote
A Advonce
the
film
ond
press
theshutter
releose
button.
(f Repeot
this
ocfion until the number
" 1" oppeors
ot
the orrow mork
in the filmcounter window.
. The film counter
indicofesthenumberof oicturestoken
from I to 36.
. The f
ilm odvoncelever hoso 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" rongethrough
which the lever moy be "offset" from fhe body for
ropid shooting.
. When the
comero
bock
isopened,lhecounteroutomoti
colly resetsitselfto 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
shutterremoins
open
) works in con
junclion
wilh
lhe lensopening
(
operture
) to determine
the omount
of
lighrstrikingrhe film The higher rhe shuiler
speed,the
more effectively
it will momentorily
"stop" the oction of
vour subiect.
To set shuttcr
speed,
simplyrofote the shutter
speed
diol
until
thedesired
speed
isoligned
wirh
the
red indicotor
on the comero body, or until it is centered belween
inclicotors
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
shutterspeedsfrom I
to l/l000th second.
(At "B" the shutterwill
remoin
open
indefinitely
until pressure
is rernoved
from the releose
buiton.
)
The
operture
seilingcontrols
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
VolLm,. -
- 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 shutterspeed diol is
to be used in coniunction
withon 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
filmlsoffected by o combinotion
of operture
ond shutter
speed,
exposure
conbe
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 isengroved
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
figure decreoses,
thelight
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-Tl0l comero hosthrough-the-lens
meosuring
system
with CLC meter.
Minollo's exclusive,
revolutionol
CLC (Controst Light
Compensotor) promises better photogrophic results
with
multiple
splitexposure
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 film 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
speedos showninthc picture.
(The
inncr
groduotions
orc
for the DIN).
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Setting the Correct Exposure
I Set the ASA Speed
Liftond rotote the shutter
speecl
diol until the figure
r
6 to 6400
I which
corresponcis
withrhc
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
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