Horizon 203 (S3 PRO) User manual, 2004 year
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4. Operating Procedure
4.1. Film Loading
The camera accepts standard cassettes loaded with any type of 35 mm film. If you load the cassette
with film on your own, be sure to properly secure the film end in the cassette spool to prevent it
breaking away from the spool during operation. See to it that the film leader is free from bends and
folds and cut to the standard form.
The camera loading should not be done in direct sun light.
Load the camera with film in the following way:
— Flip open film rewind crank
8
and holding it, pull out rewind
knob
5
as far as it will go. Holding the film rewind knob in this
position, open back door
20
.
— Carefully insert the film leader under guiding roller
15
and draw
out the film by about 12—15 cm.
— Put a loaded cassette into cassette chamber
13
pulling out the
rewind knob as far as it will go.
— Return the film rewind knob
5
completely home slightly turning
it to let spool guide
14
enter the cassette.
— Pass the film leader under sprocket
18
so that it appears from under
take-up spool
19
. To make this procces easier rotate the sprocket with your
fingers with button
21
pressed down.
— Insert the film leader into the slot of the take-up spool and draw the
film back on to the film gate. Make sure that the sprocket tooth engage a film
perforation hole. Reel the appeared loop on the take-up spool rotating shutter
cocking lever
2
. The film shoud be placed on film channel guides
16
without
skewing.
Close the back door
20
tightly pressing it to make the lock latch. Cock and
fire the shutter.
— To transport a nonexposed portion of film to the film gate, cock and
fire the shutter once again. When cocking the shutter for the second time the
frame counter should be set at “1”, the latter being positioned approximately
in the centre of exposure counter window
12
.
Now you are ready to shoot. The shutter is cocked by turning smoothly
lever
2
counter-clockwise to its fullest extent and released by pressing release
