Beirette VSN User manual

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Deor "beirette" Fon,
We felicitote you on buying this remorkoble smoll
comero ond wish you oll the pleosure in the world
ond much success.
The following illustrotions will convince you of our
promise "finest pictures wih o minmum of efforts"'
It will be wise to first run the comero through  its
poces without o film ond to get fomilior with the
instructions. Of course you know you ore hondling
o precision instrument ond so you will not use ony
force; the comero would not toke is kindly ond we
should be ever so sorry not to be in o position to
honour your cloims.
To open the comero, toke it into your left hond'
 press the smoll lock with your forefinger in the direc-
tion of the orrow ond use the thumb to swivel the
comero bock oround its hinges.
Vour "beirette" will toke ony commerciol doylight-
 looding b/w or colour cossette for 20 or 36 pictures.
To lood the comero, pull the rewind oxle from thecomero body, insert the cossette into the left-hond                   ffispoce ond push the oxle bock, rototing it  slightly
 during the process.

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Pull the film tonque ocross the picture gote ond
push it into the slJt in the toke-up spool.
Pull the film properly oround the toke-up spool by
operoting the winding lever (when lockeC press the
releose button) ond toke core the film perforotions
engoge the sprocket wheel.
Close'the comero bock ond check its proper locking.
The comero will be reody for your first shot when you
swivel the winding lever (thot simultoneously cocks
the shutter) ond press the releose button  till nurnber
1 shows up in the filmcounter window.

Your "beirette" is fully protected by on ingenious   www.butkus.us"little device ogoinst double or blonk exposures (o
 feoture the some os in o top closs professionol co-
 mero), Thot meons you con press the releose buttorr
 only ofter you hove cocked the winding lever.
 Any object you wont to photogroph the "beirette"
 woy ond with "beirette" quolity is o certoin distonce
 owoy from you, requires o certoin shutter speed orrd
 diophrogm opening. So before lifting the comero to
 your eye estimote or meosure the distonce, turn the
 front lens ond motch the distonce with the red mork
 on the shutter foce.
 Determine the required exposure time ond set it witlr
 the block shutter front ring locking to       1/oo or                                                  'ln,                                        the shutter 1/125 sec or to "B". With the lotter setting
 stoys open os long os you press the releose button
ond you ore well odvised to put the comero on o
 tripod ond use o coble releose.
The lorger diometer reor ring sets the diophrogm
ond locks on the stondordized openings from 2..8
 through 22 which cover oll your requirements.
 There is o rule which moy come in hondy sometimes:
the lorger the diophrogm number, the smoller the
diophrogm opening; the lorger the depth of field
ond the longer the exposure time.

Didn't we promise eose of hondling? Here it   is
ogoin! There ore the eosy-to-use weother symbois
on top of the shutter which outomoticolly combine
shutter ond dioprogm. They will reduce the time
for preporotion considerobly ond ore o greot help
for those who ore no hoppy possessors of on ex-
posure meter or those who     left  it behind. Of                                  -course, on exposure meter is the best solution, es-
peciolly with colour, but you con trust the symbols,
too,

The lost of these few monipulotions is to set the DINor ASA number indicoted on the film box by turning    ,l
the ring on the right-hond side of shutter (combined
DIN ond ASA scole). This setting is not chonged for
the entire film, ond you need only select the proper
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Our picture shows the typicol holding of the comero.
There ore, of course, no steei-clod ruies, ond the
best woy to hold it is to grip it wrth both honds
securely so thot the forefinger rests on the releose
button ond is free to press it down firmly. Pleose
remem ber, o picture of "beirette" shorpness does
not only depend on shutter speed ond correct
distonce setting (items which go without soying) but
on o rock steody comero when the shutter is tripped'

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      The reflex morking in your opticol viewfinder shows
       the-frome limits for oictures token in o distonce bet-
      ween 2.50 m ond 6  (infinity). When you opprooch
       your object to o shorter distonce, the well known

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 Y9, connot operote the winding lever ony more
 when the 36 or 20 fromes on the film ore exposed
 ond the filmcounter shows the corresponding number.

 To rewind the film into its cossette, swivel the rewind
 cronk out of the button, press the rewind releose
 button on the comero bottom ond turn the cronk in
 clockwise direction. Do it o bit slower when you
 think you opprooch the end ond observe the point
 where the film tongue slips from the toke-up spool.

-Thot's when the cronk suddenly turns much more
 eosily.

Open the comero bock, pull the rewind button out
os detoiled obove, ond tilt the comero. The film will
drop out.

Another "beirette" feoture: the filmcounter resets to
"A" outomoticolly.

The fiqure shows the comero with coble releose on                         llr" nut is provided in the co-o tripSd for which o
mero bottom.

                                               onyThe threod in the releose button will occept
commerciol coble releose.
After oll, it is reolly no wonder thot your "beirette"
is fully x-synchronized for electronic flosh ond flosh
bulbs.'The'flosh units ore connected to the contoct
on the occessory shoe without coble' For electronic
ilosh, the shutter moy be set to ony speed while
flosh'bulbs coll for V3s sec' The occessories shoe con
of course, olso be uied for other occessories such os
ronoe finders.

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       Let's conclude with some detoils on the depth of
        field scole provided on the shutter foce. lt indicotes
      the depth of field for o certoin distonce ond dio-
     phrogm setting combinotion. In o flosh, it meons:
       set the distonce os meosured or estimoted, look ot
      the meter scole ond reod the depth of field between
     the two vqlues corresponding to your diophrogm
        setting. Thot's oll. But on exomple is never lost:
             Distonce setting :        1.5 metres
           Diophrogm setting:  8
           Depth of field:          1.2 to 2 metres
      Should you wont to check the function of your co-
     mero with open bock ond no film in  it, turn  the
       sprocket wheel clockwise to the stop ond press   tl-re
       releose button.
      Sprocket wheel ond releose button sholl be lockingI       o lternotingly.
      Check thot the shutter opens ond closes properly.
    We ore quite sure we did not forget onything you
      should know obout the operotion of your comero,
     ond we wish you oll sotisfoction ond success with
       your "beirette".

       Yours,
     VEB KAMERAFABRIK FREITAL GDR - 8210 Freitoi

a Size 24 x 36 mm on 35 mm film in stondord
          Free ond eosy              cossette                              o  Fully cooted MERITAR lens 2.8/45         photogrophy -        o PRIOMAT shutter with 3 speeds ond B ond built-
        colour os well os              in optionol outomotic setting by weother symbols
          block ond white        o  Lens focusing from -  down to 0.60m, distonce                                                   ring with snopshot morks
                              o  Depth-of-field  scole
                              o  Ropid lever wind
With the "beirette" you ore the         e  Hinged bock
hoppy owner of o 35 mm comero        o  Filmcounter, outomoticolly resetting to "A"
incorporoting oll feotures             o  Bright-frome viewfinder with neor-distonce morkrequired in our doys,                              o  Flosh synchronizotion vio occessory shoe centre
                                                 contoct
                              o  Wrist corrying strop
                              o  Weight 260 gr





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