User manual

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CARE AND STORAGE
• As with all high-precision instruments, no
part of your XG-9 should ever to forced at
any time. If operation is not as you think it
should be, carefully restudy the applicable
instructions or consult an authorized
Minolta service representative:
•
Always keep your camera in its case with
the lens capped when not in use .
• Never subject
your camera to shock, high
heat
and/or humidity, water, or harmful
chemicals or gases .
• Never
lubricate any part of the body or lens.
•
Always use a body cap when a lens is not
installed on the body . Keep lenses, properly
capped front and rear, in their cases when
not in use .
• Never
touch the shutter curtains or anything
inside the front of the body with the
fingers. These
parts and the inside of the
back should be dusted with a soft brush
from time to time as necessary, with partic -
ular care never to exert pressure on the
shutter curtains .
• Never
touch lens or other glass surfaces with
the fingers. If necessary, remove loose
matter from them with a blower lens brush.
Use special photographic lens tissue or a soft
clean cloth to remove smudges or finger -
prints with a gentle circular motion. Only if
absolutely necessary, the tissue may be
moistened very slightly with not more than
one
drop of a satisfactory quick-evaporating
fluid cleaner specially compounded for pho -
tographic lenses. Such fluids must never be
dropped directly on the glass surface.
• Smudges
or fingerprints on the mirror may
be removed with len. tissue slightly mois -
tened
with lens-cleaning fluid as above.
•
External camera and lense-barrel - but not
glass - surfaces may be wiped-with a soft,
silicone-treated cloth .
• Never leave the
shutter cocked when the
camera
is to be stored overnight or longer. It
is advisable to ope'rate the film advance and
release the
shutter once or twice from time
to time during extended storage.