AAton A-Minima Manuale utente
user’s guide
Basic Instructions
Technical Specifications :
Technical specifications and User's guide are subject to change without notice
- Super16 only, 172,8° * spinning mirror reflex shutter,
- Around 2 kg (4 Lbs) with on-board battery and film.
- l 245mm, h 140mm, w 110 mm (9.7" x 5.5" x 4.4")
- Time recording by XTRprod compatible AatonCode-II matrixes, accurate to a 1/4 of a
frame. The camera can be used as a master-clock too.
- Fiber-optic viewing screen, 1:1.78 (16/9) ratio viewing screen shows markings for
wide-screen HDTV and 4:3 aspect ratios, G = x 5.5.
- Frame Rate - 1 to 32 fps with internal Lithium and 50 fps with external 12V battery TBD
and stop-frame with built-in intervalometer.
- Nikon or PL mount
- Incident lightmeter -dome- showing T-stop and diff. T-stop, HMI frequency and monitor
scan rates on the camera LCD display.
- DistantEye viewfinder “Aaton patent”; the only reflex camera which doesn't fog the film
if the eye is not held against the eyecup.
- Built-in Intervalometer
- Back light display
- 200' quick change magazines, 'B' wound rolls in Aaton's ~flexible~ daylight spools
(standard metallic 200 spools and 400' reels, NO)
"Temporary casting" is engraved on the initial cameras. This housing will be exchanged
when the Video Assist becomes available.
* Initial cameras (from # 006 to 025) have a 180° shutter. This shutter will be retrofitted
in 172,8° when external housing is exchanged.
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Lemo 5 & 6
connectors
Magazine lock-knob
Battery holder
on / off switch
Control panel
Magazine release lever
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loading
The A-Minima spools are supplied by Kodak only : as of July 2000, four
emulsions (S16, one side perf), in A-Minima loads, are available : 7245 (50D),
7246 (Vision 250D), 7274 (Vision 200T) and 7279 (Vision 500T). More codes will
be available later.
The A-Minima spools are "daylight friendly". If you load your magazine in
daylight configuration, you will exposed both film ends as below :
Loading : 1,70 m -> 5,6 feet (average)
Unloading : 0,60 m ->2 feet (average)
If you need to use the complete spool (200 feet, 61 m) load your magazine in a
changing bag or in a dark room.
Warnings :
The spools are made to be used 3 or 4 times as take up spool. If you roll up
yourself, you do it under your own responsability.
Do not forget to notify your processing lab that the A-Minima is running
emulsion-out rolls.
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General presentation of the magazine
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Loaded spool delivered by Kodak
Empty spool made of two flexible flanges
and one core
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1 - Open the core lock lever
2 - Insert the spool into the magazine feed side
3 - Push the spool inside
4 - Press the spool on each side of lock lever
as showed on the picture.
5 - Lock the core lock lever
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Attach the film to the core by using the
Kodak sticker which maintains the film into
the spool.
(On spools previous version, the core was
equipped with a slot. This slot has been
removed from the new batch of core by
Kodak)
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Put the upper spool back in place
Turn the upper spool to to lock it inside the core
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