PENTAX PROGRAM PLUS
Silimar models Super Pro
Batteries: 2 ea $76
Fig. 1— top cover removed
bottom cover removed
Fig
Fig 3— front view, covers removed
Fig. 4 top view, wind side
shutter-dial board held aside
Fig. 5— front view, mirror box
removed
Fig 6— mirror box, hack view
Fig. 7 mirror box, rewind side
Fig. 8— miror box, bottom view
Fig 9— underside of shutterial
‘board, terminal identification
Fig. 10— test connections. optical
encoder
Fig. 11— wit
ctorial, top of flex
Fig. 12— wiring pictorial, side and
bottom of flex
ADJUSTMENT LOCATIONS:
Auto exposure A
‘Apertue-contsol voltage B
LCD alignment (parallel) is
LCD alignment (height) D
Mirror angle E
Travel time, 2nd curtain BY
Travel time, Ist curtain G
Timing switch HY
AV (Evolume) resistor 1
Shutter release J
*normally do not disturb — adjustments
can’t be reached with camera assembled
ADJUSTMENT VALUES:
(Curtain-travel time: 6ms (20mm
distance), 7.2 ms (24mm distance)
Flange-focal distance: 45.46¢0.04mm
(lange to film rails)
Aperture-contcol voltage: 450+ SOmv
peak-to-peak
Battery-testvoluge: With 2.6V applied,
the LCDs should read normally. With
2,4V applied, the LCDs should
alternately show the exposure reading
and a row of OS
‘Timer: LCDs should remain on 30
seconds after release button returns
12/SPT JOURNAL.
Pentax Program Plus
Figure +
counter
Syne speed: 1/100
AV resistor 6K +10 ohms at (78
ADJUSTMENT PROCEDURES:
1
AY resisor
Adjust before installing the mirtor
box. Install the lens at f/8. Measure
the resistance between the yellow
and brown AV-resistor wires
(isconnected), Fiz. 11. Adjus I
Fig. 6, fora reading of 6K +10
ohm.
Aperture-control voltage
1. Set both the lens and the shuter
dial to auto
bb Connect 28V between the
Dattery-box terminal (+) and
round
. Check the f/stop on the LCD to
assure that the camera will program.
‘an aperture smaller than f/28. If
rot, use higher light level or
faster film speed.
«, Connect an oscilloscope between
‘round and the test point for the
Aaperture-contcol voltage, Fig. 2. Set
‘a sweep time of 2ms, vertical
deflection of 02v/cm, and 10:1 on
the probe:
«Release the shutter. The scope
will dsplay a sine-wave signal
Adjust the trie postion until you
‘ean measure the P-P voluge ofthe£ Adjust B, Fig. 2, fora P-P voltage
ff 450mv-* SOmy (2.Sem on the
scope, Fig. 12)
3. Exposure
a. Check with the top cover
installed, Temporarily intl the
bottom cover and the hatteres. Or
use a special bottom cover with a
cearance cutout for the restos
Fig
Set ISO 100, £/8, auto on the
shutter dial. Check at EVI2, Adjust
A, Fig. 2, for an expanure time of
156m (O EV error
Remove the lens and check the
except for timing-switch ecventt
‘manual speeds (no adjustme
1. Check the exposure at progeam
ens and shutter dal st to auto
The programmed! exposure shoul
be within | EV at EVI6, EVI2,
EVI0, EVS. and EV6,
4. LCDali
Lep
of the
Adjust C, Fig. 3, to make tl
with the bo
g sereen, Adjust D so that the
nce between the boxtom ede of
the screen and the top ele of the
LCD is 1/2 1.2 times the width of
the LCD,
5. Shurter lease
push allow the
mirror to move up slowly and no
when the shutter releases. The
sottom sie of the mirror should
align with the top edge of the
of
teadge of the porous plastica the top
of the mirror box). If not remove
the mictor box and bene! the shuter
release lever Fig. 8, Bend up the
Jong arm to make the shutter release
sooner: bend! down the long aem to
‘make the shutter release Inter
Aperture lever (or be no moe
half way between the op
the aperture lever and the
OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS:
1 For program operation, st the
shutter dial and the lens diaphragm
to auto, The LCD inthe finder then
zads both the shutter speed and the
f/st0p that will be automatically
programmed. Push the release
Dutton part way to turn on the
LCDs. The LCDs remain on 30
FIGURE
FLEX-CONNECTOR
PRESSURE PLATE
FIGURE 4
seconds after you allow the release
button to rtum.
manual f/stop. One LCD (rewind
side) now shows the selected shutter
2, For aperture preferred, st the speed: the other LCD shows over or
shutter dial to auto and the under exposure up 10 3 stops. For
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diaphragm t0 a manual setting. The proper exposure, the LCD shows *
LCD then shows the shutter speed 4, Ifyou set the lens to auto and
that will be automatically set, The the shuter dial to manual, 1/100, o¢
{/s1op LCD has no indication, bulb, the LCD shows an “E
3. For metered manual, set the shutter- (lickering) for error. The shutter
dial to manual (depres the gray will not release
Asa Jow-battery warning, the LCD
alternates showing the normal
readings with “000” in one display
‘and "00" in the other display
Tatch button on top of the shuter
dial) Select the shutter spoed with
the up/lown keys next to the
shutter dial. Also set the lens to a
SPT JOURNAL/136 The camera provides normal
‘operation with the back open.
‘When you clase the back, the LCD
indicates “1000.” The shutter
delivers 1/1000 second until the
counter reaches “I.”
7. With the dedicated flash, the
lightning-flash symbol appears in the
display when the ash charges. The
display and the shuter speed change
to 1/100. At manual shutterspoed
settings the flash changes the display
to “100” at speeds 1/125 and faster
the shuter delivers 1/100. At speeds
of 1/60 and slower, the shutter