The "aperture ring" sets aperture or ASA I think.
If you set to an ASA setting it will go into auto mode, if you set an
aperture setting it's in manual (eg for flash use).
br
Jez
On 11/17/06, NSURIT@xxxxxxx <NSURIT@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Just a couple of questions:
>
> 1) Does anyone have a manual they would like to send to a new home or
> perhaps scan/copy for a dues paying member of ZA? I would naturally
> be willing to
> send a little folding green your way, reciprocate in kind with something
> from
> my references or perhaps swap something Olympus for it. No, AG, not the
> DZ
> 7-14mm!
>
> 2) My camera, which has an EL (easy load, I think) badge on the front, has
> only one moving setting on the lens. It appears to either adjust the film
> speed or the aperture and that has me a bit puzzled. This thing has a
> CDS meter
> which needs no batteries. There are click stops for ASA, but none for
> the
> apertures. Assuming I set the aperture to achieve the depth of field I
> want,
> then how does the camera know what my the correct ASA is for
> the film. "How
> do it know?" questions about machinery have always intrigued me. Take
> the
> Thermos for example . . . it keeps the hot things hot and the cold things
> cold.
> This camera is old, but not as old as me and I don't see that either of
> us
> is young enough to figure out such a sophisticated calculation. This is
> especially true given that we are both from a pre-computer era.
>
> That is all this inquiring mind has for the moment. <pen{8^)head Bill
> Barber
>
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