A Multi-mode Automatic Exposure Camera with Full System Capabilities The all-new Fujica AX-5 turns you into a complete photographer. With its impressive five auto exposure modes, plus manual control, no photographic situation - and opportunity - is beyond your grasp. The Fujica AX-5 has a newly designed "Fujica-X" bayonet mount, the control you need. Setting up this which promises the qUickest lens Five-mode Exposure exposure mode is again simple: just set change. There are lenses and lenses to Automation the lens aperture ring for" • " auto mark, then choose the speed you want on the fit the AX-5, the finely crafted plus Manual Control shutter speed dial. If you want to freeze "X-Fujinons" that encompass a full fast action, you naturally opt for fast range of needs. And consider some of shutter speeds, such as 1/1000 sec. Or the system accessories. Fujica Auto Mode 1: Aperture-priority AE you can deliberately blur the action - at Strobo 300X for brilliant flash a slow shutter speed - to suggest a photography. Fujica Auto Winder X feeling of motion. Exposure comes out for continuous action shooting. Fujica perfect every time, with the lens diaphragm Photo Recorser, the unique data back. closing down to just the opening And extension tubes, bellows, dictated by the camera's control brain. microscope adapter, and a host of others to keep the AX-5 functioning in many fields of specialized photography. The Fujica AX-5 opens a new When you want full control over horizon in your photographic depth of field, this is the mode to use. experience. Its advanced electronics Stop down the lens, and you can capture assure flawless performance time after a full scene in sharp focus. Open it wide, time. And, above all, it lets you be the and the subject clearly stands out against complete master of situation - and a blurred background. Set the AX-5's Mode 3: Programmed AE photographic creation. shutter speed dial for "AE" (or "AEL") The AX-5's programmed AE mode and select your own aperture: the camera provides complete exposure automation instantly computes the correct shutter - convenient in news photography wher speed, from a slow 2 seconds to a stop­ split seconds count, or when you wa ~ ~ motion 1/ 1000 sec. take simple snapshots without the bother of exposure settings. With the shutter dial Mode 2: Shutter-speed Priority AE on "AE" (or "AEL") and the aperture ring In action photography, the shutter on " • " auto mark, the camera sets speed is the critical element - and the optimum aperture and shutter speed by AX-5's Shutter-speed Priority AE provides programmed automation. Mode 5: Electronic Flash AE Full Information This exposure mode works with either Fujica Auto Strobo 300X or Auto Strobo Viewfinder AZ - via hot shoe contact. When the flash is fully charged, the AX-5 shutter A clear, easy-to-read LED display in automatically sets to 1/60 sec. flash sync the viewfinder gives complete exposure speed; when exposure is made, the flash information. Included are exposure mode, unit automatically controls light output to aperture and shutter speed settings in the suit the set aperture and subject distance AE modes, and full metering information for proper exposure. in the manual mode; over- and Mode 4: Stopped-down AE underexposures are warned by flashing Mode 6: Fully Metered Manual LEDs (at over-the-edge positions), and Stopped-down AE is an essential insufficient battery power is warned by function when you want to work with When necessary, the AX-5 provides blinking LED (at "B" position). The LED close-up equipment and external optical fully metered manual operation. Free the display lights when the shutter release systems, such as bellows and microscope. camera from auto settings, and you can button is partially depressed or when the The shutter speed dial is again set for choose your own aperture and shutter Meter Button is pressed. "AE" (or "AEL"); when you have selected speed to create any desired exposure A three-way focusing screen includes your aperture, you first push the stop­ effects. split-image, microprism and matte field, a down button, and then release the versatile system that assures fast and shutter. The camera meters through the accurate focusing with any subject or stopped-down lens and instantly computes under any light condition. the correct shutter speed for perfect exposure. This mode is also useful when the earlier screw-mount Fujinon lenses are used with the AX-5 via mount adapters. A special feature of the AX-S is operation begins. And if the photography "Cybernation" - a form of automated should ignore the over- or underexposure computer control. This system provides warning during shutter priority AE backup control, through a special feedback operation, Cybernation automatically resets circuit, of exposure values by rechecking the manually set shutter speed so that exposure conditions just as shutter correct exposure is obtained. Dual Exposure Compensation 8 Multiple Exposure 0 COMPACT BODY The AX-5 provides two independent The Fujica AX-5 comes with a simple PACKED WITH systems of auto exposure override to provision for taking multiple-exposure ULTRA-MODERN compensate for backlighting or other shots. You just press the "R" (Rewind) special light conditions. button on top of the camera, then wind FUNCTIONS The "AEL" position on the shutter the film advance lever. This cocks the To look at the Fujica AX-S, you speed dial means "AE lock." With this shutter but does not advance film, so the wouldn't think so much sophistication can setting, depressing the shutter release next exposure can be made on the same be built into a camera body so small - partway locks in the exposure reading, frame . You can repeat the process any and light. Yet, Fuji engineers have taken temporarily holding it in the camera's number of times for a single multiple­ full advantage of the latest progress in the exposure memory. The AE lock allows exposure shot. electronics science, and have squeezed all simple exposure compensation during Two-way Exposure Metering the impressive exposure functions, plus a aperture-priority AE and programmed AE host of other exciting features, into the operation. There are two ways to activate the The fractional exposure control built compact shell of the AX-S. AX-5's meter system. One is by pressing in the AX-5's ASA speed dial allows lightly on the shutter release button; a compensation of up to plus/ minus one Fujica-X Bayonet Mount 0 second is by using the Light Metering f-stop, in stepless stages. This system Button, positioned just inside the shutter The new Fujica-X bayonet mount works with all the auto exposure modes dial ring. You can easily change speed allows speedy lens change, with just a of the AX-5. settings while pressing down on this 65-degree turn and a solid click of the button - and watching the LED display Electronic Self-timer with Audible locking pin. in the viewfinder. A complete new series of "X-Fujinon" Signal 6) lenses have been designed to fit the The electronic self-timer of the AX-5 bayonet mount body. The earlier Fujinon provides a precise 12-second delay - and lenses with screw thread also fit on the emits and audible signal to tell that the bayonet mount AX-5 via Mount Adapter countdown is underway. The self-timer X-D or X-S (though with limited access to switch is included in the AX-5's main the AX-5's operational modes). power switch. Electromagnetic Shutter Release 0 To make sure that the computer gets The Advanced the most accurate information on light A very light 100-gram pressure Electronics Technology conditions, a new silicon cell with even operates the AX-S's electromagnetic faster response and wider linearity range shutter release. A big help in avoiding of the AX-5 has been developed for the AX-S. blurred pictures due to camera movement. Linear Resistance Eyepiece Shutter 0 Further evidence of the advanced A built-in eyepiece shutter moves in technology of the AX-S is the use of linear place at the flip of a lever. No stray light resistance, instead of the step arrangement ~')uls up the meter reading in critical light , . of most other cameras, for extremely atIons. accurate transmission of shutter speed and Reversing-type Exposure Counter f) film speed information within the camera. And aperture information is transmitted The exposure counter of the AX-S is Electronic Accuracy and Reliability by a tiny but highly accurate coupled to the film rewind action, so the The electronic control circuits of the potentiometer. counter counts backward as the rewind Fujica AX-S are divided into four major crank is operated. It gives visual assurance Reliable Electromagnetic Control blocks. All of which are ICs. This reduces of proper film rewind. the number of individual parts To insure precise timing of shutter Film Check Window 0 enormously, with the result that both speeds, electromagnets are used to control accuracy and reliability are vastly the front and rear shutter curtains. A The small window in the camera back improved. combination electromagnet is also used to shows at a glance whether there is film in Heart of the exposure control system control the action of the mirror and lens the camera or not. When Fuji film is used, is a 7000-element micro-computer with a diaphragm. the number of exposures and film type highly integrated FL (Integrated-Injection In turn, these electromagnets are conveniently show through. Logic) LSI. The role of this amazingly controlled by electrical switches instead of complex but diminutive computer is to the conventional mechanical switches.