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Manufacturer description #1

Our new fully automatic Fujica AZ-1. Comes with a zoom, goes with a winder.

Since the days of Daguerre, the image of the photographer at work has not changed: moving in, moving back, adjusting exposure, cocking the shutter, switching lenses.

Now there's a camera that frees you from all that fancy foot-and-finger work.

The Fujica AZ-1 is the first, fully automatic Zoom Lens Reflex. Add to it the auto winder and you've got the perfect combination of creative tools. The aperture-preferred automatic exposure, the variable-focal length zoom lens, and the quick-mount auto winder all function smoothly and effortlessly together. The best part of all, the price for the whole package is less than you'd expect.

The zoom way to change lenses. An automatic body with a winder running it can give you the same picture shot after shot. And that can get pretty redundant.

Then imagine a Fujica AZ-1 Zoom Lens Reflex. You zoom in, zoom out. You compose, and recompose. Winder and body take care of the frame-to-frame mechanics. You never have to look away from the viewfinder.

Result? Each exposure is perfect, each picture is different. Yet the whole event is there, start to finish, without interruptive lens changes. (Not that you can't change lenses if you wish.)

The zoom range than makes sense. Most pictures today are taken in the normal neighborhood. Which is why our Fujinon f3.5-4.5 zoom lens stays within the 43 to 75mm range. There are other advantages in keeping the zoom short.

Take compactness. When fully compressed, our zoom lens is hard to tell apart from our standard 50mm lens. (Price-wise, they're not far apart either.)

Consider weight. Shortness cuts us down to a mere 10.5 oz.

Finally, sharpness. The shorter the lens, the less compromises there are between optical glass surfaces. So our short zoom is super-sharp, corner-to-corner.

The winder for weight watchers. At just 9.7 oz., the Fujica Auto Winder practically blends into the camera. You fire up to two frames every second. It only takes four penlights to power up to twenty 36 exposure rolls. And when it's time to rewind, or change film or batteries, the winder stays right on the camera.

Set for Auto-Exposure, set yourself free. The Fujica AZ-1 gives you the exact fractional shutter speed for correct exposure electronically, automatically. Shutter speeds range from 1/2 second to 1/1000th second, plus B.

Instant acting silicon cells take a center-weighted reading. Vibration-free LED's signal the speed back to you in the viewfinder, even in the lowest light. If you're too wide open or too stopped down, or batteries need changing, you get a blinking warning.

Two technological advances make this instant accuracy possible. Digital controlled. Large Scale Integrated (LSI) circuitry. Plus replacement of mechanical switches by electronic relays. With the Fujica AZ-1, you experience and enjoy aperture-preferred automation at its finest.

In practical photographic terms, you open wide for fast shutter speeds. Or stop down for longer exposure times. Or stop down and zoom simultaneously for streaks and blurs you will not believe.

Memory metering. A special AE locking system lets you "store" any reading you want. Even from backlit subjects.

Just move in close, press the button half-way to hold the reading, return to your original composition, and shoot.

Or you can override the automation either way by up to two stops. And outwit subjects like pure white snowmen or jet black limousines.

Manual operation? Of course. You can turn off the automation whenever you want. Or even choose a Fujinon 55mm f1.8 or 50mm f1.4 lens as standard equipment. But that doesn't mean you're back to an ordinary SLR.

The Fujica AZ-1 has silver-coated prism surfaces to brighten your view. You focus three ways. By ground glass, micro-prism, or split-image.

400 ASA Flash Photography is here! You've seen the results of our Fujicolor FII 400 ASA fine grain film. Now see what our film and the Fujica Auto Strobo AZ can do for your flash photography.

Rather than close down the lens to adjust for the higher speed ratings of 400 ASA film, the Auto Strobo extends the flash range. Actually doubles the distance you get as ASA 100. That's using 400 to its fullest potential!

Another flash feature: the energy-saving Auto Strobo lets you forget all about synch speed. When fully charged, it automatically sets the camera at 1/60th second. If you fire before the go-ahead signal, the camera returns to aperture-preferred automation. So you never end up with a complete black-out.

The system go back up your zoom. From EBC multi-coated Fujinon lenses that range from fisheye to super-telephoto, from macros to zooms, from bellows attachments to macro cinecopiers, your Fujica AZ-1 belongs to one of the world's most sophisticated 35mm photographic systems. A system that includes beautiful Fuji film. So you know just how professional the standards are.

Fujica AZ-1. Reaching in, pulling back, clicking ahead.

Manufacturer description #2

The camera's electronically controlled automatic exposure (AE) system provides instant exposure determination by fast-reacting silicon photocells which measure the exposing light through a fully open lens and an LSI circuit which simultaneously converts the measurement into the correct shutter speed. The shutter speed selected by the AE system is displayed in the viewfinder by means of light-emiting diodes.

Pressing the shutter release buttin halfway down activates the AE lock which "remembers" and holds the correct shutter speed for as long as the button is depressed so that you can just step back and immediately shoot backlighted pictures without fussing over exposure compensation.

Three-way focusing by means of a split-image center spot and microprism and groundglass collar lets you bring any subject into sharp focus quickly and easily.

High quality Fujinon lens of proven sharpness and color reproduction lets you take high quality, color-perfect pictures every time.

Accessory motorized winder (Fujica Auto Winder) automatically winds the film to let you shoot at a rate of about 2 frames a second.

New type flash (Fujica Auto Strobo AZ) speeds up camera operation and heralds in a new system. It automatically sets the camera's shutter speed to 1/60-second.

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Type: Through-the-lens single-lens reflex 35mm automatic exposure camera with focal plane shutter.

Film: Cartridge-packed 35mm roll film.

Picture Size: 24x36mm

Standard Lens: Fujinon 1:1.4 f=50mm; 6 components, 7 elements.

Options: Fujinon 1:1.8 f=55mm; 4 components, 6 elements, Fujinon-Z 1:3.5-4.5 f=43-75mm; 7 components, 7 elements. Full aperture light metering; rectilinear helicoid mount; 49mm dia. screw-in filter; fully automatic diaphragm with multiple system f-stop scale and click stops.

Lens Mount: Praktica screw mount with lens lock; 45.5 flange back.

Shutter: Cloth focal plane; 1/2-1/1,000 sec. electronic (automatic) shutter speed control; B, 1/60, 1/250 and 1/1,000-sec. mechanical (manual) shutter speed setting; self-cocking; combination shutter release button/electronic circuit switch (pressing the shutter release button activates the AE lock); provided with safety lock.

Flash Synchronization: Hotshoe with X-contact (provides automatic exposure with Fujica Auto Strobo AZ) (optional); X-contact terminal; 1/60-sec. flash synchronization.

Self-Timer: 8-sec. interval; activated by depressing start button.

Viewfinder: Pentaprism, eye-level, silver-coated; 0.96x magnification; 90% vertical 92% horizontal field of view (with 1:1.8 f=55mm lens); LED and scale shutter speed indication, quick-return mirror.

Focusing: Three-way (split-image, microprism, groundglass).

Exposure Control: TTL Center-weighted averaging-type metering system; silicon photodiode light receptor; aperture-preferred automatic exposure control; provided with AE lock, and fractional exposure control for +1 and +2 and -1 and -2 stops; three 1.5V silver oxide batteries (Mallory MS-76 or Eveready S-76).

Meter Range: EV2 to 18 with 1:1.4 f=50mm lens and ASA 100 film; operates with ASA film speeds 25 to 3,200.

Film Advance: Single-stroke lever; 140 deg. winding angle.

Automatic Film Advance: Motorized film winder (Fujica Auto Winder, optional) advances film and cocks shutter each time shutter is released.

Exposure Counter: Automatic reset additive type.

Film Rewind: Rewind button and crank.

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