Polaroid SX-70 manual Opening & closing the camera Holding the camera, Taking the picture

SX-70 Cameras

Folding Models

• SX-70, SX-70 Model 2
•	SX-70	Alpha, SX-70 Alpha Models 1 & 2
•	SX-70	Model 3
			User Guide
•	SX-70	Sonar/Autofocus

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Opening & closing the camera

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Holding the camera

Hold camera in your left hand with your thumb and fingers behind the hinge (A). Fingers must not block the exit slot and thumb should not touch the bellows.

Raise the camera so your eye is close to the viewfinder.

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Hold the camera in the palm of your left hand. Grasp the sides of the viewfinder cap at the rear (ribbed surfaces).

To close the camera, push cover support to the rear. Press down on the viewfinder cap until both sides latch.

Lift straight up until cover support (A) locks.

Taking the picture

Look through the center of the eyepiece. Rest your thumb on the back of the shut- ter housing, with your right forefinger on the shutter button. Curl the other fingers into your palm.

Bring your eye close to the viewfinder so you can see all four corners of the black frame inside. Hold the camera steady.

After focusing, squeeze the shutter button all the way down until the picture exits.

Loading & unloading film

Focusing the camera

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All SX-70 cameras use Polaroid Time-Zero SX-70 film.

Push the film door latch

(A) down to open the film door.

Hold the film pack by its edges and push it into the camera. With your fingers away from the picture exit slot, close the film door.

The motor will run and eject the film cover.

Your SX-70 camera has a split-image circle in the center of the viewfinder image. Aim camera so that the split circle is over a vertical line or edge that you want sharp in your picture. Turn the focus wheel until the vertical line in the top half circle lines up with the line in the lower half circle.

The split circle helps you focus, not frame or view. It is placed low in the viewfinder so it won’t interfere with viewing. This means you may have to reframe your picture after you focus. When you reframe, don’t change your distance from the subject. Simply point the camera down or to one side until you see in the viewfinder exactly what you want in the picture.

The SX-70 Model 3 is not a single lens reflex camera. To focus, estimate the dis- tance from the lens to your subject (if closer

Note that the film counter on the back of the camera sets to ten. It counts backwards indicating the number of shots remaining.

After shooting ten pictures, remove the film pack by opening the film door and pulling the pack out by the little tab.

than 3 feet, measure it), then turn the focus wheel until the correct distance is opposite the white line. Outdoors with subject more than 15 feet away, set lens at infinity mark.