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CONTROLS IN DETAIL

Battery Chamber (13)

Instead of using a separate battery pack, the MD-

4 houses its batteries in a built-in battery cham-

ber. The standard MS-3 Battery Clip accepts 8 AA-

type penlight batteries to power the motor drive

up to 4 frames per second. Once the motor drive is

attached, the camera gets all its power from the

batteries in the motor drive. In this way, the

camera is able to run on high capacity batteries.

As a separate accessory, the MD-4 accepts the MN-

2 NiCd Battery Unit for extremely high-speed shoot-

ing up to 6* fps. Since NiCd batteries are better

able to maintain their peak performance in cold

temperatures, the camera/motor drive combination

will still operate down to -20 C. The following

table lists the firing rates according to power

source (Table 1), while the bar graph gives you

the expected life of various battery types under

ordinary temperatures (Table 2).

continued

* Possible when shutter speed is 1/125 sec. or above and

the mirror is locked in the "up" position.

Table 1

Shutter speed

range (sec.)

1/125 - 1/2000

mirror up

Table 2

Zinc-Carbon

Alkaline-

manganese)

NiCd Battery

Unit MN-2

The range of guaranteed firing rates

The range within operative battery power but

without gurantee of the specified firing rates

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Power source

AA penlight

batteries

(Zinc-carbon)

( A l k a l i n e -

manganese)

3 . 8

(Number of 36-exposure rolls)

100

60 70

(frame/sec.)

M N - 2

MA-4(AC/DC

battery

converter)

(NiCd)

5 . 5

140