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Agfa AMBIFLEX I / II User manual
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beei specially
compwted and manufactured in accordance with the oery latcst
scientific methads ta suit this type of camera.
The Agfa Color-Solinar f 12.8 is a -element, anastigmat lens, of
brilliant definition and high resolaing paxoer, The Agfa Color-
Solagon utith an aperture of flz.o is a high performance lens
which is supreme in the 6-element lens class. ''Sffiiding:*iii:ti$ir1i$",li,r*il:,
Apart from this, both lenses are notable for their
reproduction of detail and good colaur correction. A combination
ot' these attributes makes them the ideal lenses for ministurt
photograplry zoith black and white or colour film.
In additiont erery lens leauing our fnctory is tested og
n p l ' - tLp-to-date methods and is guaranteed ior its quality and
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Woist-level
lrood viewfinder
8 F l o s h c o n t o c t
R e w i n d k n o b
w i t h f i l m r y p e
i n d i c q t o r
1 0 L e n s r e l e o s e
b u t t o n
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s e t t i n g b u t t o n s
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f o r c o m e r o b o c k
l 3 P r i s m v i e w f i n d e r
F i s .B AGFA AMBIFtEX lll (seeFis.B)
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W I T H Y O U R N E W A G F A A M B I F L E X
you con be sure of toking perfect photogrophs ond you ore to be congrotuloted on
your choice.
The operotionol convenience,wide ronge of qccessoriesond uncomplicotedhondling
chorocteristicsof the reflex comero with its interchongeqble lenses moke it eosy for
you to toke the most excellent photogrophs.
rl Your Agfo Ambiflex offers you the following speciol odvontoges:
Agfo interchongeoblehigh-performonce lenses . Pre-set iris diophrogm . Choice of
woist-level or prism viewfinder . Exqct demorcotion of picture oreo on ground gloss
screen . Split-imoge rongefinder in viewfinder for oll lenses . Automotic exposure
control mechonism
Your photogrophic deoler moy hove exploined the Ambiflex to you, but before using
your new comero for the first time we suggest thqt you reod through this little booklet
lf with the vqrious monuol operotions. Afterwords you need only
refer to the ts in eoch section which cover the moin points in brief.
enjoy photogrophy with this comero to the full, due in lorge meosure to its bright, cleor
viewfinder which mokes the tqsk of selectingthe subiect o reol ioy.
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This reminds you of the type of film in your
gomgrg.!f your photogrophicdeoler hqs olreody
loqded the cqmero for yoU, check the indicqtor
immediotely.Should it not yet hove been set
pull out the rewindingknob qnd set the required
film type in the window by meons of the milled
ring under the knob (seeillustrqtion).
lf, for exqmple, q blqck-qnd-whitefilm is to be
loqded, this is indicotedby settingthe block qnd
white sectorsin the window of the reminderdisk.
If you ore using colour negqtive film, provision
is mqde for the following setting:
CN , - Colour negotivefilm for doylight ond
qrtificiollight When looding q colour reversol film (for colour tronsporencies) cr Colour^, reversolfilm, doylight type
you should use one of the fol- Oiy:
lowing settings: CK - Colour reversolfilm, qrtificiollight type
A (incondescentlomps of 3400oKelvin)
CF - Colour reversolfilm, ortificiolflqshlight
Set the ,uquirffiWrbol by turn- F type (3800"Kelvin)
irg the kroffiing it by its T h e r e m o i n i n g d e s i g n o t i o n s q p p l y t o o t h e r t h o n E n g l i s h
Iower milled W s p e ok i n g c o un t r i e s .
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F I L i vl c()L 1N7 'E / ( triqngle.When usingo cqssettewith 36 ex-
posures this is done by setting the scole indicqles the number of exposures you
to the green triongle between 36 qnd 0, still hqve lefl on lhe film.
for films with 20 exposuresthe green tri-
After looding the cqmerq,the film counter ongle between 25 qnd 20. When looding
of the lower edge of the cqmero bock the cqmero the stqrt of the film is wosted should be set to the storting position. by exposure to light qnd so you must first
To do this, turn the milled ring in the moke two blonk exposures.This is done
direction of the qrrow (see illustrotion)so by operoting the ropid tronsport lever
thot the fixed mqrk is opposite the green (see pqge 5).
Turn milled ring until green
triangle is opposite fixed mark
otl the body.
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The ropid tronsport lever moves the film on one
frome eoch time it is operoted.Ploceyour thumb
behind this lever ond swivel it round os for os
possible(see illustrotion.lf the lever is blocked
you will hove to press the shutter releose first.
You should repeot this operqtion of film trons-
port qnd shutterreleose until the number 36 or
20 is opposite the fixed index mork (see illustro-
tion poge 4). Your comerq is then reody for use.
lf you inodvertentlyreleose the ropid tronsport
lever before it reoches its stop, you must swivel
it round ogoin until it reochesq stop which moy
lie hqlf wqy; do not try to force it through.
C o u t i o n ! U s u o l l y t h e r e w i n d i n g k n o b t u r n s o s t h e f i l m i s
tronsported ond should therefore not be hindered in
ony woy.
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Swing leoer to stop, film is
adaanced by one frame.
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I, /HAT \'OLI NEED TO KA./OW'
Lightingconditionsqre subiectto consider-
oble voriqtions.This is why your comerq
is fitted with different shutter speeds ond
qperturesof vqrying size. With both these 5
4 meqns you con odiust the comero to suit
2 the porticulor light qnd subiect.
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Buttonsfor setting shutter speed
Shutter speed scole THE SH U T T E R
hos been built into the cqmero body;
Pressurekey for setting film speed (DlN/ASA)
shutter speed vqlues ore engroved on the
Aperture scqle setting ring which is turned by the but-
tons @ on the right ond left to bring the Setting mork for shutter speed ond operture
(Shutterspeedsshould engoge in their click stops required shutter speed opposite the set-
directly opposite the mork.) ting mork.
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H E DI APH I( /\GM This is where the built-in exposure meler
comes to your qssistonce;it is independ- is incorporoted in every Ambiflex lens; its
volues qre olso engroved on the setting ently coupled to both the operture setting
ring ond to the shutterspeed setting ring. ring (4, see illustrotionpoge 6) ond con be
set by meqns of the two block buttons. First make sure that you hazteset the speed
The pre-set iris diaphragm on the Ambiflex of the film on the scale as described.
permits selection of the subiect of the
lorgest operture- no motter wh ich stop
hos been chosen.Only when the shutter
releqse is operoted does the operture
qutomqticollyspring to the previouslyset
volue. Subsequenttronsport of the film The built-in exposure meter f acil-
itates the selection of the correct opens up the operture ogoin so thot full shutt er sp eed- ap erture combina-
benefit is derived from the speed of the tion.
lens in the viewfinder imoge.
As only q limited omount of light should
be qllowed to reoch the film, depending
on its speed, it is necessqrythqt the right
combinotion of shutter speed ond oper-
ture be used for eoch photogroph.
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Now odiust the exposure meter pointer
in its window on top of the comero to the
centre of the seiting mork by turning the
operture sel-tingring (see illustrotion).
3. Correcl reoding
As soon os the exposure meter pointer is
centred on the setting mqrk this gives the
correct operture corresponding to the
After
previously selected shutter speed. ln our
illustrotion,for instonce,rf ps sec. ond f/4.
Turn aperture ring until ex-
posure meter pointer is centred
on the setting mark.
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Just press down the shutter releose os exposure meter pointer exoctly on the
described on poges 25 lo 27, ond you setting mork.
hove token your first photo. lf you ore
In such coses o slight correction by meons unoble to centre the pointer on the mork
-becquse the milled ring hos reqched the of the operture ring moy be necessory.
stop ot the right or left-this meons you
hove set q shutter speed which is either
too fqst or too slow for the lighting con-
ditions. ln such coses select o new shutter
speed ond repeot the procedure.
You con nolurolly selecl lhe operlure loo lf a certain depth-of-field zone
-if you require o porticulor depth-of-field is required first select the
zone (see chopter "Depth of Field", poges aperture and centre eJcposure
29-31)-ond by moving the shutter speed meter pointer on setting mark
ring you con centre the exposure meter by means of the shutter speed
pointer on the setting mork. Since, how- ring.
ever, the shutter speed ring con only be
odiusted to the engroved click stop set-
tings it moy not be possible to centre the
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A FEW HINTS cluded. You will recognize thot this stoge
ON EXPOSURE CALCULATION hos been reoched when there is no further
opprecioble chonge in the position of the
With londscqpe photogrophs the sky usu- exposure meter needle. Moke q note of
olly occupies o considerobleport of the this reoding, set it on the comero ond
picture. Aport from o few rore exceptions, relurn lo your originol position for the
the sky is brighter thqn the moin port of exposure.
the subiect ond so it is better to oim the
comero ot the dork port. lf brightness When using colour reversql film such qs
controst of the subiect is porticulorly Agfocolor ReversolFilm CT 18 it is best to
greot, you will hqve to decide which ports toke reodings of the mqin high lights in
must be reproduced correctly. This is the subiect.
porticulorly importont when using colour
film. The correct exposure for lhese more
imporlonl seclions of the subiect will then Take close-up reading of im-
hove to be orrived ot by toking o close-up portant parts of subiect, With
reoding. This is done by opprooching the colour reuersal films point ex-
posure meter at main brighter more importont ports of the subiect ond parts, rpith negatioe colour wotching the exposure meter uniil you ore films at main darker parts, certqin thot the effect exercised by the
brighter ports of the subiect hos been ex-
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Where subiect controst is low, which is
offen the cose in fog, dull weother or For time qcposures: "8" set-
shode, you will hove to give q longer ting, camera on a tripod, use
exposure. This is best done by using the cable release,
next lorger operture or the next longer
shutter speed. This rule opplies only lo
reversql colour films ond to the coses
mentioned.
With negqlive colour films olwoys point In such coses ploce the comero on q firm
the exposure meter of the mEin dqrk ports support, preferobly on o tripod, ottoch o
of the subiect. coble releose (if possible with time lock)
to the connection provided (see 5, moin
illustrotion,fig.A) ond moke the exposure.
F O R V E R Y P O O R L I G H T I N G The shutter stoys open os long os pressure
is exerted on the coble releqse button.
Sometimes there is not enough light to ln mony cqses, porticulorly with indoor
give on exposure meter reoding on ony photogrophy, o flashgun will be needed
of the instontoneousshutter speeds. Then to supplementthe qvqilqble light ond for
you use the "8" shutter setting for time this your Ambiflex is provided with o flosh
exposures. contqct.
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Attoch the floshgun (such os the Agfo KM or
Agfolux) to q flqsh brqcket ond fix it to the
Ambiflex by meons of the screw. We odvise you
to use one of the usuql types of flosh brockets
monufoctured for this purpose. Finolly you
should connect the flosh leod to the contoct
on the comerq (see illustrotion).When looking
ot your Ambiflex from obove you will see o
smqll lever on the right which should be set to
"X" or "M" occording to the flosh method used
Flashgunsp ermit indoor snapshots,
Atta& Agfalux or KM flashgun to
a flash bracket, connect bracket to
Ambiflex and ioin up flash lead.
(see illustrotion).As the "M" synchronisotionis
rorely used this positionis locked ond con be
releosedby pressingin the smqll key towords
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the centre of the lens (see orrow on the to flqshbulbs ony shutter speed con be
right), thus enqbling the lever to be set used, olthough the opertures should not
to "M". be token from the opposite toble. These
ore cqlculoted from the guide numbers for However, lhe flosh method better known
the floshgun concerned, e. g. guide num- ond used most is the "X" synchronisotion.
ber 96 divided by o distonce of 12 feet
: operture f/8. Electronic floshguns con Pleose note therefore:
be used for blqck qnd white or daylight
With "X" synchronisqlion : position of colour films.
lever to X (or with deloyed oction to V)
only use q shutter speed of 1/ao.The oper- Flashbulbs:Shutter speedLfss sec,,leoerset tures to be used ore given in the toble on ttXt'.
poge 15. to
Electronic flashgun: Any shutter speed,
With the synchronising lever sel lo "M" leoer set to "X".
foster shutter speeds con be used. The
Specialflashbulbs:Any shutter speed,leoer opertures required ore given in instruc-
set to "M" after pressing in locking key. tions enclosed with eoch pockoge of flosh
bulbs.
When using on eleclronic floshgun the
lever must olwoys be set to X. Controry
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No mqtter which viewfinder is supplied with
your Ambiflex you olwoys hqve the possibility
to purchosethe other one for interchongingqs
requ ired.
Either type of viewfinder con be chonged very
quickly.All you hove to do is to squeezein both
the side grips (upper illustrotion,poge 17) ond
you con then Iift out the hood viewfinder or
prism finder, qs the cose moy be. Both finders
qre reploced by pushing them down without
squeezing the grips until they engqge with qn
qudible click.The Agfo Diomond should olwoys
point to the front, i. e. towqrds the cqmero lens.
through the hood wqisi-level finder Squeeze in both the side grips and
with the imoge the right woy up Iif t out the finder. Replace finder
but the wrong wqy round horizontally and push it down until
or through the prism viewfinder it engages.
to give q true-visionimoge, qccord-
ing to toste or subiect suitobility. 1 6
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Turn focusing ring until oertical lines
aiewed in small f ocusing circle continue
in one single outline (see illustration,
page 19).
The Ambiflex with hood viewfinder
ottoched con be held much steodier
ond sofer if the strop of the ever-reody
cose with the sling oround the neck-
or the cqmerq strop ottoched to the
two studs on the cqmerq-is used qs
odditionol support. The strop should
be tout; this con be ochievedby short-
ening the strop to moke one or (when
using the mognifier) even two wrist
slingsqs illustroted.
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Wh en using the woist-
level hood viewfinderit is
eqsy to toke photogrophs
pointing either upwords
or downwords verticolly
from o stondingposition.
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With the Ambiflex you con even photo-
groph over o crowd if you hold the com-
erq upside down qbove your heqd ond
view the ground gloss screenfrom below.
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By usingthe neck sling you con
even photogroph sqtisfoctorily
in o crouchingposition
You con qlso photogrophround
the corner in order to copture
nqturol qnd unqffected move-
me nts. V
The hood aiewfinder is suifnble to, prnc-
tically all subiects.
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r C ) C U 5 I N t ; f I I E ( A M E l t r t r
W I ' T H H E P R / 5 M
V I ELNL/ N DE I( A'TT,4L"HEI)
Although the hood viewfinder offers
mqny qdvontogesin viewing the sub-
iect (Atbiflex l) the Ambiflex ll ond lll
ore more suitoble when split-second
timing is needed in copturing the sub-
iect, becouseits pentoprismgives you
o true vision imoge the right woY
round. lf the viewfinder imoge is not
immediotely visible first operote the
ropid tronsport lever.
To obtoin shorp picturesit is importont
to hold the comero steody in oddition
to focusing it exoctly. You should
therefore hold your Ambiflex in both
hqndswith your thumbsolong its bqck
qnd both middle fingers on the focus-
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ing ring. You moy olso hold the comero Turn the focusing ring until the imoge is
with the right hond, supporting it on the shorp on the ground gloss screen.
polm of the left hond, ond turn the focus- A reliqble check is provided by the split-
ing ring with thumb ond index finger of imoge rongefinder (see illustrotion,p.19).
the left hond, os shown in the illustrqtion Wotch the verticol lines of the subiect ond
on poge 23. turn the focusing ring. The two holves of
The Ambiflex is roised to the foce ond the the circle will stqrt to converge. As soon
eye-piece of the prism viewfinder brought os the broken verticol lines of the subiect os close to the eye os possible. ore no longer in double outline ond o I
complete imoge is obtoined, the comerq
is correctly focused.
No motter wheiher you use the prism
viewfinder or hood viewfinder the imoge
obtoined through the comero lens corre-
sponds exoctly to thot seen by you in the
HoId your Ambiflex with both hands, raise finder.
it to the face and bring oiewfinder eye-
piece close to the eye, turn focusing ring with both middle fingers or with thumb I
and index finger of the left hand.
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