Brand: Bronica
Category: Camera
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Language: EN
Manual for ETRSi
Uploaded: Aug. 9, 2025, 11:44 p.m.
Camera Setup & Basic Operation:
1. **Loading Battery:** Insert a 6-volt battery, ensuring correct polarity.
2. **Battery Check:** Press the check button; a red LED indicates sufficient power.
3. **Attaching Film Back:** Align latches, press lower end until locked. Withdraw dark slide.
4. **Film Loading:** Open back cover, insert film spool, draw out leader, attach to take-up spool, wind until starting mark aligns.
5. **Advancing Film & Cocking Shutter:** Rotate film winding crank once clockwise.
6. **Setting Shutter Speed:** Rotate the shutter speed dial. Red numbers indicate full second settings, white numbers indicate fractions of a second.
7. **Taking a Picture:** Press the shutter release button smoothly.
8. **Unloading Film:** After the last frame, rotate the crank until it turns freely. Open back cover and remove film holder.
9. **Interchanging Lenses/Finders:** Ensure shutter is cocked. Align and attach/detach as instructed.
1. **Loading Battery:** Insert a 6-volt battery, ensuring correct polarity.
2. **Battery Check:** Press the check button; a red LED indicates sufficient power.
3. **Attaching Film Back:** Align latches, press lower end until locked. Withdraw dark slide.
4. **Film Loading:** Open back cover, insert film spool, draw out leader, attach to take-up spool, wind until starting mark aligns.
5. **Advancing Film & Cocking Shutter:** Rotate film winding crank once clockwise.
6. **Setting Shutter Speed:** Rotate the shutter speed dial. Red numbers indicate full second settings, white numbers indicate fractions of a second.
7. **Taking a Picture:** Press the shutter release button smoothly.
8. **Unloading Film:** After the last frame, rotate the crank until it turns freely. Open back cover and remove film holder.
9. **Interchanging Lenses/Finders:** Ensure shutter is cocked. Align and attach/detach as instructed.
Troubleshooting and error codes
| Problem | Possible Cause | Solution |
|---|---|---|
| Shutter cannot be released | 1. Shutter release button is locked. | Unlock the shutter release button. |
| 2. Dark slide is inserted. | Withdraw the dark slide. | |
| 3. Film winding crank not rotated fully. | Rotate the film winding crank until it stops. | |
| 4. Shutter is not cocked. | Cock the shutter using the film winding crank. | |
| 5. Lens is not properly attached. | Reattach the lens securely. | |
| 6. Lens release button is depressed. | Release the lens release button. | |
| 7. All frames exposed. | Load new film. | |
| Image streaking or underexposure with slow shutter speed | Film winding crank rotated before shutter speed completion. | Ensure shutter speed completes before advancing film. |
| Battery not powering electronic functions | 1. Battery not loaded. | Load the battery correctly. |
| 2. Battery exhausted. | Replace the battery. | |
| 3. Battery polarity reversed. | Ensure correct battery polarity. |