Agfa parat I User manual

I  Releose button
2 Accessory shoe
3 Flosh conloct
   in occessory shoe
4 Unlocking key
   for film rewind
5 Rewind cronk
6 Lens slop key
7 Focusing ring
8 Shutter speed key
9 Coble releose socket

This is whot you
                            should keep in mind:


Controry to 35 mm. comerqs for the 24x36 mm.
size this comero will give verlicol pictures when
held horizontolly ond horizontcl pictures wher.
held upright. A glimpse through the viewfinder will
show this.

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                      crlwcrys in the shcrde-crt  lecrst in body shcrdow.


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             2  lnserl tlre ccrssette so thcri its hole en-
                      gcrges wiilr tlre rewind  ct'ctnl<.

Turn the spool by the milled ring until one
of the two wide slits ond its smoll lug ore
uppermost.
Drow out film from the cossette to the
winding spool, holding the cossette with
the other hond.
Insert the end of the film in the slit of the
winding spool so thot the lug engoges in
the second film perforotion, morked white
in the illustrotion.

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Novz turn the winding spool by poying ot-
lention thcri the counier disc on the ccrnr-
e rcr boiiom port con move freely. The fllnr
hos been proper'ly inseried wlren it is tout
crnd llre tceih of tlre tronsoort wheel en-
goge cleonly in the film pelforcriions.
Wlren obout t .,rd in6[ full width of the
film prolects of the cossette, close the com-
ercr by replcrcirrg the bcrcl< in the groove of
on oblique ongle (ccrtch to "open"), slicle  ii
close to tlre top pcrri of thc comercr crr.rd
ther-r press down slightly. Continue pi'es-
sure on the bose plcrte, slide the bock rig ih
Ironre (below ihe top plcrte) crrrd sei thc
ccrich to "locl(".


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 lmpodont nole:                        38 exposures
                                              with o film designoied for 20Eoch pocl<oge of o 35 mm. film is dis-                                                                                                                       '{'i
tinctly morl<ed for its number of ex-        ond
posures. As minioture films hove     24 exposures
hitherto mostly been used for the         with o film designoted for'12                                           This meons thot for the some price of24x36 mm. negotive size the length
of these films hqs been colculoted   o film you cqn moke twice os mony                                         exposures.only on the bosis of this size. How-                                        Pleose keep this in mind when settingever, with your Porot I you obtoin q                                       the counter mechonism which we oreformot which is reduced by its holf,                                       describing now:i.e. l8 x24 mm. Therefore wiih your
Porqt you con moke                    Setting the fifm counter
                           On the boseplote of the comero is the
  72 exposures                             film counter.  lt counts bockwords ond
     with o film designoted for 36      shows you the number of exposures

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still left on the film. On its diol ore three trion-
gulor morks, one eoch before the numbers 72,
40 ond 24. According to the length of film
looded the oppropriote triongle should be set
ogoinst the fixed mork. This is done by turn-
ing the smoll milled disc in the direction of
the orrow.
When looding the comero, the stort of the film
is wosied by exposure to light, ond so you
must first moke five to six blonk exposures be-
fore storting to photogroph. The film counter
moves on one mork ofter eqch second film
tronsport.
Coution  !
The disc of the rewind cronk turns os lhe film is trons-
ported ond should therefore nol be hindered in ony woy.

Film tronsporl                         leose ond tronsport mechonisms hove
                               o lock to ovoid double ond blonk ex-With your thumb swivel the ropid                                        posures. lf you should inodvertentlytronsport lever round to the siop ond                                         releose the tronsport lever too soon,let it return. Then press down the                                                           it returns to its storting position ondshulter releose os for os possible. You                                  musl then be pushed forword ogoinshould repeot this operotion of film                                    os for os possible.tronsport ond shutter releose until the
double of the number of exposures
morked on the film corion is opposite
the fixed index mork (see lower illus-
trotion on poge 6).
lf the ropid tronsport lever is block-
ed, you will hove to press the shutter
releose first. This is becouse the re-


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Exposure
Lighting conditions ore subiect to
consideroble voriotions. This is why
your Porot is fitted with different shul-
ter speeds ond opertures of vorying
sizes. By these meons you con odiust
the comero to suit the porticulor light
ond subiect.

Setting shutter speeds              Lens stops
                                1/oo ond   The necessory lens slop con be seenYou hove o choice ol rlso,
1/rz; sec. The required shutter speed   from the exposure tobles on poges
is set by turning the block key (shown    l0/11. The required lens stop is set by
by white orrows in the illustrotion on   the blqck key (brown orrows) until the
the left) until the chosen shutter speed    lens stop o6peqrs in the smoll win-
is visible in the smoll window (for   dow. In'the'illustrotion on poge 8 o
instonce 1/125 sec. in the odlocent    settino of f.4 is shown. For more de-
illustrotion). Do nol sel inlermediole    toils df lens stops ond depth of field
volues.                              see the section'on "Whot you need
The section entitled "Whot you need    to know" (poge 18).
to know" on poge 18 provides in-         e.g. f. 2.8            e.g.  f .22formotion on choosing the correct
shutter speed.
When set to B, the shutter remoins
open os long os the releose button is
pressed. For more detoils see poge 15
"Time exposures".                 TARGE STOP     StvlAtt STOP

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EXPOSURE TABLE FOR COLOUR FILM

Aperture seitings requir-    Agfocolor Negotive Film CN l7     Agfocolor Reversol Film CT l8
ed from Moy to August,
l0 o.m. to 4 p.m., shutter     bright   I   slight  lovercosl    bright   I   slighl  lovercost
speed 1/r:; sec.          sunshine  hoze       dull    sunshine'  hoze   I    dull
Beoch scenes, mounfoins    f.il&16     f.8 & lt     f.5.6 & 8     f.16                      f.8
Well lit streets
ond buildings,
open londscopes with
distont bockground        f.8&il    f.5.6&8    t.4&5.6       f.ll          f.8             i. 5.6
People, groups in the
open, londscopes with
dork foreground,
street scenes             f.5.6&8    f.4&5.6    1.2.8&4      f.8              t. 5.6        t.4
Dork buildings,
people in the shode       f.4&5.6     t.2.8 & 4                 t.5.6         f.4         J.2.8

                                                                                    .l8.Pleose note the film tips for Agfocolor on poge

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Focusin g                                         Focusing symbols
Three symbols focilitote focusing. De-
pending on the subiect, you should        aQ                               "Gf(set one of the three symbols repro-   Close-ups                  f\{Groups Londscopes
duced in enlorged form on the right       51/2 It.      12t1, ft.         oo
to the white index mork.                    (1.70 m.)   (3.80 m.)    (lnfinity)
                                     Addiiionol focus settings from 3 ft.
lf necessory, you con noturolly set    (0.9 m.) to infinity will be found on
the triongulor mqrk to ony position   the lower port of the setting ring;
between two symbols.                      white figures :  metres
                                         green figures :  feet

Holding lhe conrero
          It is essentiol to hold your comero   the comero in the monner you prefer
       steody to obtoin shorp pictures. You   ond operote the shutter releose with
       should lherefore toke your Porot in   thumb or index finger.
       both honds. Hold your comero stroight    Figure C shows you how to hold the
       without tilting  it.                      comero for uprighl photogrophs. Press
I       For horizontol piclures hold the Porot   the releose button down firmly ond      os shown in figures A ond B. Hold    steodily os for os possible.

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floshlight crnd time exposures come                  .r4::to your ossistcrnce. This is done  crs                                         l'.'$*" €.t
[o llows   :
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A floslrgun with on occessory shoe
conicrci should be used on tlre Pcr-
rcri I  e. g. Agfcrlux M or Agfcr Tully
Floshgun M). The contoct with the
cclnrefo slruiter is mcrde simply lry
sliding ihe flcrshgun inio the occessory
shoe. For. flcrsh photogrophy the shut-
ier speed ring should olwcrys be sei
to  !:  = I ,r,, sec.). The lens siop re-

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quired should be token from the por-   of pictures, documenls or postoge
ticulors given on eoch corton of flosh   stomps, ond olso for night photog-
bulbs. (The Agfolux ond the Agfo   rophy they ore mostly required.
Tully Floshgun ore fitted with o stop    First move the bl        morked by
colculotor.)                          white orrows  in           otion on
When using qn electronic floshgun,   poge 8) until the       e in the
the Agfo odoptor, lype 6793, will be   smoll window.              tting the
necessory to ottoch ihe floshgun leod.    shutter remoins             os the
In this cose qny shutter speed con    releose buiton
be used. The lens stop is to be col-                                   Longer shutter speeds thon l/so sec.culoted from the guide number of                                     should not be used without support-the floshgun.                                   ing the comero, ond o tripod ond
Time exposures                      coble releose ore then necessory. The
ore used for photogrophing motion-   coble releose socket is on the bottom
less obiects such os reproductions    of the releose button.

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                                         sette by meons of the rewind cronk.
                                              First slide the unlocking key on the
                                       ccrmero top plote in the direction of
                                        tlre on-ow isee lower illustrotion).
                                 Then rcrise the cronk with your finger'
                                              noil ond swivel it outwords os shown
                                            in the illusirotion on the left.


After ihe lost exposure the counier
will indiccrte I ond the ropid trcrns-
port lever connot usuolly be swivel
led to the stop. Now the fllm hos to
be rewound into its light-tight  ccrs-

Then turn the cronk in o clockwise
direction (see lower illustrotion, pog€
'16). Rewinding is complete when therewind cronk turns much more eosily.    t]Y|ilPS               il
Only then con the comero be opened.
This is done by moving the cotch   Before looding your comero with
on the bose of the comero towords   film-os described on poges 2 to 4,-
the comero bock (inscription "open")   here ore q few suggestions to help
ond then removing the comero bock   you in choosing the right film. First
                                                                             is Agfo lsopon F for blockdownwords. Put the cossette in its    of oll there
light-tight pocking qnd mork it os ex-   ond white photogrophy. lt hos fine
posed.                               groin ond good contour shorpness.
When operoting the ropid tronsport   For sports photogrophy the high-
lever, the unlocking key outomoticolly   speed Agfo lsopon ISS is the right
returns to its originol position.            film.


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Agfocolor Films open up the world   For colour prints:
of colour to you. For more thqn 25       Agfocolor Negotive Film CN l7
yeors these films hove been greot     or Agfocolor Negotive Film CN 14.
fovourites due to their noturol re-   From your mounted tronsporencies
production of postel tints ond bright     it is now possible to hove CT colour
colours olike. Their high speed hos    prints mode on poper.
olso mode colour snopshots o reolity.

For shorp, brilliont,
reol istic tronsporencies    :
                          As mentioned in brief, two foctors
   by doylight:                        ore involved in the exposure: the lens
    Agfccolor Reversal Film CT 18,   stop ond the shutter speed. The fol-
                                lowing informotion is designed to
   by ortificiol light:                   fomiliorize you with the ossociotion
    Agfocolor Reversql Film CK.       of these two foctors.

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The lens slop regulotes the omount   lens stop used. On the other hond,
       of light reoching ihe film. In poor     if you wish to photogroph s lond-
          lighting conditions o lorge stop should   scope in which the foreground ond
      be set (".g. f.2.8 or f.4) whereos in   bockground ore to be shorp, o smoll
      good light o smoll stop (e.9. f.'ll or   lens sfop will hqve to be set ond o
          f.16) is used.                           correspondingly longer shutter speed.
                                                                             ogoin      The shuiter of your comero offers  We would like to point out
                                                                                should       the second possibility of controlling   thot no intermediote volues
       the quontiiy of light. A short shutfer   be set on the shutter speed scole.
        speed, such os 1/125 s€c., will of course   Depth of field is the shorp zone in
       ollow less light to reqch the film thon   front of ond behind the point on
      o longer speed, such os 1/6s or even   which the comero is focused. This          l/ss sec.  i                                         shorp zone is vorioble; it increoses
  I        For oction photogrophs o short speed   os the comero is stopped down ond
I         Fltrs) should be chosen ond o lorge   the distonce increoses. To help you

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in finding out how for this shorp zone   Photogrophs without sunshine ore
extends, the toble on poges 22123   olso possible. With on overcost sky
gives the exoct depth of field for   controst con be heightened on o     }
eoch focus setting.                    block ond white exposure by using
                                o medium yellow or oronge-red  filter.And finolly
o few generql photogrophic tips   The omount by which the exposure                                then hos to be increosed con beA good impression of depth con be                                    gothered from the filter foctor por-obtoined in your photogrophs if you                                             ticulors supplied by the mokers.ollow the light to strike the subiect
from the side. Of course, you con   Pholos ogoinsl the light coll for some
olso photogroph with the sun behind   experience becouse the roys of the
you, but then you must be coreful   sun should not fqll directly on the
to keep your own shqdow out of the    lens. lt is best to foke odvonloge of
picture. In such coses the relief effect   the shqdow of o tree or house ond
is less.                            use q lens hood too.
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