I am puzzled by your problem, as the Topcon Auto 100 is one of the simplest cameras to operate. It is a shutter priority automation camera meaning you pick the shutter speed, and the lens aperture is set by itself while on Auto; take it out of A to have a fully manual camera.I have owned many different cameras, many different brands starting with Retina IIIC in 1966. Just picked up a working Topcon Auto 100, of all the manuals I have read the manual for the Topcon is one of the worse, no the worse manual I have ever had to decipher. The camera it'self is fussy, not as bad as the Retina, but making heads or tails of how how to set the shutter speed to manual, took an hour.
My Dad had a Auto 100. That was hot stuff for Dad, graduated from a Argus C3. I'm trying to recall, is the Auto 100 a leaf shutter? I remember wanting a Super D until I got my first Nikon F2S.I have owned many different cameras, many different brands starting with Retina IIIC in 1966. Just picked up a working Topcon Auto 100, of all the manuals I have read the manual for the Topcon is one of the worse, no the worse manual I have ever had to decipher. The camera it'self is fussy, not as bad as the Retina, but making heads or tails of how how to set the shutter speed to manual, took an hour.
I am puzzled by your problem, as the Topcon Auto 100 is one of the simplest cameras to operate. It is a shutter priority automation camera meaning you pick the shutter speed, and the lens aperture is set by itself while on Auto; take it out of A to have a fully manual camera.
Vorlaufwerk is my new favorite word of the day! Google translation has a nice female robot voice that pronounced it for me.V - X - M is a common setting on Synchro-Compur leaf shutter cameras or lenses with such shutters. V ("Vorlaufwerk") is the delay timer - but X and M are flash synch choices.
Those of us who, in the early days started using German blade shutters quickly learned that "V" meant "self timer" but today is the first time that I have ever known what word "V" meant.Thank you. We are never too old to learn........Regards!Vorlaufwerk is my new favorite word of the day! Google translation has a nice female robot voice that pronounced it for me.
I checked the Butkus website there's a decent manual there for a very reasonable donation.
Look here it's got everything on flash synch etc. Even shows the self timerAlthough "Vorlaufwerk" in a photographic sense would colloquially be translated as "self timer" or "delay mechanism", more literally it means a mechanism which runs ahead or leads the actual tripping of the shutter.
As for the Topcon, I wonder if the shutter speeds can be changed in the X (electronic flash synch) setting as well as M (flashbulb)? I would hope so!
who reads camera manuals?I have owned many different cameras, many different brands starting with Retina IIIC in 1966. Just picked up a working Topcon Auto 100, of all the manuals I have read the manual for the Topcon is one of the worse, no the worse manual I have ever had to decipher. The camera it'self is fussy, not as bad as the Retina, but making heads or tails of how how to set the shutter speed to manual, took an hour.
Try the manuals for the Werra and its variations. Ugh!
A how to hold guide featuring an attractive lady behind or in front of the camera, followed by a sequence of black and white shots illustrating the effect of aperture and shutter speed.
Looks bit like a pervertThe Nikon F2 manual didn’t have an attractive lady holding it, but a guy that oozes 1970’s with a bushy mustache and plaid jacket.
who reads camera manuals?
Sounds a bit strange to me. I guess with knowing what's it about I would have asked her to repeat...Vorlaufwerk is my new favorite word of the day! Google translation has a nice female robot voice that pronounced it for me.
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