Nikon MD-4 Instruction Manual

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15Battery 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 driveup to 4 frames per second. Once the motor drive isattached, the camera gets all its power from thebatteries in the motor drive. In this way, thecamera 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 betterable to maintain their peak performance in coldtemperatures, the camera/motor drive combinationwill still operate down to -20°C. The followingtable lists the firing rates according to powersource (Table 1), while the bar graph gives youthe expected life of various battery types underordinary temperatures (Table 2).CONTROLS IN DETAIL continuedZinc-CarbonAlkaline-manganese)NiCd BatteryUnit MN-2Power sourceShutter speed AA penlight AA penlight M N - 2 MA-4(AC/DCrange (sec.) batteries batteries battery converter)(Zinc-carbon) ( A l k a l i n e - (NiCd)manganese)1/125 - 1/2000 3 . 8 3 . 8 5 . 5 51/125 - 1/2000 4 4 6 5 . 5mirror up* Possible when shutter speed is 1/125 sec. or above andthe mirror is locked in the “up” position.Table 1 (frame/sec.)Table 2 (Number of 36-exposure rolls)60 10060 14060 70The range of guaranteed firing ratesThe range within operative battery power butwithout gurantee of the specified firing rates