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• When storing the camera for extended periods of time, keep it in a dry
and cool place.
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Clean lens, finder window, light meter cell with soft clean cloth only,
or brush gently with lens brush.
• The film gate should alw ays be clean.
of film,
dust it with a soft brush.
When inserting a new reel
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When taking pictures with your eye away from the finder, such as in
titling,
care should be taken not to expose the eye piece to strong light.
Such light may go through the finder prism and reach the film.
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Even the versatile Electric Eye mechanism of the Minolta Zoom 8
camera can make a mistake when shooting back lighted or very
contrasty subjects. In these cases, rel ease the Electric Eye mechanism
and take pictures by manual operation.
If the subject has more bright areas than dark ones, open the diaphragm
to one stop larger than the light meter measures. When the subject
has a greater percentage of dark areas than light ones, but the
light ones are important to you (a girl in a blue dress), close down
one f/ stop.
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