Cosmorex Se Owners Manual

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hoot from higher or lower angles. 
Taking

pictures of small children? Get down to their

level 
- 
literally. Kneel down, so that your 
camera
is at eye-level with the child (instead 
of aiming
down). The result, again, will be 
a much more
interesting, natural-looking 
photograph. Taking
pictures of a group of 
people? See if there are
stairs nearby, so 
you can shoot from a higher
angle. Each 
person in the group will be more
visible 
than if you shot them at eye-level.



Try to get people in...

CHOOSING AND USING

INTERCHANGEABLE LENSES

A major advantage of Cosmorex single-lens

reflex photography is your ability to use literally

hundreds of wide-angle, telephoto, and zoom

lenses. Any lens in the popular "Universal

Thread Mount" shared by 
Cosmorex and other
35mm SLR 
cameras with similar mounts may be
used. 
You can choose from lenses made both by

camera manufacturers, and by respected

independent lensmakers such as Tamron.

Which interchangeable lens should be your

first...

•With wide-angle lenses, you benefit from an

expanded "depth-of-field" range. (This means

that more objects in front of, and in back of,

the subject will appear sharp in 
the final
photograph.) Since more objects

are 
in focus at a given distance, focusing may be 
more
difficult than with standard or telephoto lenses, and

the microprism "spot" in 
your Cosmorex viewfinder
may not disappear 
entirely. This does 
not 
indicate
any defect in 
your camera or lens! Focusing with
wide...

Telephoto Lenses 
make distant objects appear

closer, just like a telescope. In addition, they 
"
compress" space and give more pleasing

perspective to pictures of people. A telephoto 
lens
is ideal for subjects which are impossible, 
or
inconvenient, to approach closely: sports, wildlife,

distant objects of all kinds 
... and 
people!

Why people? Well, you can get close enough with

your standard or wide-angle lens to get a large-

enough image on the film 
- 
but youll 
find that...

•
When shooting with a telephoto lens, 
use the 
fastest
possible shutter speed. 
Remember that 
telephotos
magnify the image 
- 
and magnify 
any movement of
the camera (or subject) 
proportionately. As a
general guide try to use 
a minimum shutter speed
roughly equivalent 
to the focal length of your lens 
-

for example, 
1/125th second for a 135mm lens.


W
hen using "long" telephotos (200mm or 
greater
focal length), you may notice that the top edge of

the viewfinder appears to darken....

Zoom and Variable 
Focal-Length Lenses 
let 
you
select the exact focal length required for 
each
picture. This is a tremendous benefit when

making color slides, where its incon
venient (or,
without special equipment, im
possible) to "crop"
or re-frame the finished 
photograph.

Zoom lenses can also be more economical: a single

85-210mm zoom lens will cost less than 
separate
85mm, 100mm, 135mm, and 200mm lenses, and

give you the added benefit of in
between focal
lengths as well. While a zoom...

For greatest convenience and handling speed,

automatic lenses 
are recommended. These operate

like your cameras standard lens: the lens remains

at its widest opening (for bright
est viewing and
focusing) until the moment of exposure, when it

closes down automati
cally to the selected
opening. Immediately 
after the exposure, the lens
re-opens to maxi
mum aperture so you can
compose your next shot.

DETERMINING EXPOSURE

WITH ACCESSORY LENSES

For correct exposure with your wide-angle,

telephoto, or...

TAKING CLOSE-UP PICTURES

One of the most exciting areas of single-lens 
reflex
photography is "close-up" picture
taking. With
your Cosmorex camera, its easy 
to take excellent
pictures of stamps, flowers, coins, and other

small objects. You can even 
"copy" paintings or
photographs, or make 
duplicate slides from your
original trans
parencies.

Manyclose-uppicturescanbetakenwithout
any
accessoriesatall.Turnyourfocusingring(13)to

theclosestdistance(1.8feet).Now,
without...

Using Close-Up Lenses. 
This is the least ex-

pensive and easiest way to shoot ultra-close
ups.
The close-up lenses are simply magnify
ing
lenses of high quality, mounted in metal 
rims
that screw into your lens like a filter. 
You just
move close to your subject, and use the Lens

Focusing Ring (13) to fine
tune focus. Many
dealers carry these in sets 
of three lenses of
varying power, called No. 
1, 2, and 3; the higher
the number, the 
stronger the magnifying power
and the 
closer you can move in....

of three tubes allow shooting an object as

small as 1x11/2 inches (life size).

Bellows Units 
are devices that also go be
tween
your camera body and lens and 
allow

continuous 
focusing down to close range.

Focusing is done by a knob on the 
bellows unit.
These attachments are excel
lent for taking
pictures of very small objects, 
ranging from
about 1%" x 2
3
4" to 
/2"x%" 
or even smaller,
depending on the bellows 
in use.


B
oth extension tubes and bellows units are

somewhat more...