Dollina Camera / Dollina II User manual

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                                                                                        J      LOADING OF THE FILM                        1                                                                                                                                          ;
     Op"n comerq bock by sliding the cofch in the                                       i
        direction of the orrow engroved on some. purl                           I
       out knob A of illustrqtion. put the spoor in the
      empty comportment. Insert the topered end of
       the film in the slot of the empty spoor ond threod
       evenly with o few turns of the knob B. Close
       the bqck of the comero with the cqtch.                                                                    -+
      Th" l"ft side of the perforoted firm engoges then
       in the theeth of the counting device ond the
      threoding gets locked outomtticolly, when the
      knob B is wound o littre further. This outomotic
       locking of the film occurs ofter every exposure
     ond in order ro wind the firm further for the
       following exposure it is onty necessory to press
     on the releose knob C (illustrotion poge 5).
    Wh"n tooding the film, ir is odviseoble fo ser
      lh" counting device on Zero by ocfion of the
      knob C, so thot the counting storts from Zero up
      to 36 exposures. This setfing to Zero occurs by
       freeing the knob C from its locking device ond
     moving some to ond fro. until number Zero
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oppeors in the counting window. The locking de-
vice is then switched bock to ils locking position.

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The film is then wound until it gets outomoticolly
locked, when the first exposure con then be token.

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MAKING TH E EXPOSURE
 Thu fo.rssing ot o given distonce con be effec-
 ted while the comero is still closed by rototing
 the focussing diol to the required disfqnce (fo-
 cussing con olso be effected while the comero
 is open). The opening of the comero occurs by
 pressing button E (illustrotion poge 5). The setting
 of Compur Shutter, operture of lens, etc. occurs
 in the usuol woy. The boundories of the pictures
 ore oscertoined by meons of the opticol tubulor
view finder (in-built type). The closing of the
comero is effected by pressing with both thumbs
on both sides of the block enomel front plote
ond closing the bose boord.

      UNLOADING
Th" filr must be wound bockwords to the origi-
nol position by pulling out the winding key B
ond slightly turning some onti-clockwise (controry
to the direction shown by its orrow) so os to
disengoge the spool for the reverse spooling.        I
The reverse spooling occurs then by turningthe reverse key A in the direction of its orrow     l

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       until the pull required oppeors to be suddenly
      greotly reduced, due  lo the lqst perforotion





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      being over. The hinged bock cqn then be openedl    qnd the film unloqded.

AD D ITIO NAL IN STR U CTIO N S
                      for
     DOLLINA  II
        (Coupled Ronge Finder Model)

Ttl. Oollino ll is operoted in the some woy os
the Dollino l. However, os for qs the distonce
is concerned, the Dollino  | |  is outomoticolly
focussed to the distonce of the subiect by meons
6f the coupled ronge finder which is operoted
os follows:
The cqmero is held in the left hond. By looking
trough the test window H of the ronge finder,
the operotor will, os long os the distonce is not
correctly set, see the picture seporoted in two
holves. By turning the focussing knob I until the
two imoges ore mqde to coincide, the correct
setting of the distonce is outomoticolly obtoined.
Avoid when focussing ollowing the fingers to
obliterote the front window of the ronge finder.
When, for instonce, the subiect is o tree  f runk,

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the imoge consists of o top holf ond q lower
 holf which ore mode to move sidewoys by turning
the focussing knob I ond qre mode finolly to
coincide in one stroight line for obtoining cor-
rect setting of the distonce (which distonce  is
shown then by the position of the focussing knob).
The boundories of the pictures ore then quickty
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oscertoined by meons of the view finder F. As
qppeors from the obove, fwo windows lherefore
ore used, one lhe window H for the setting of
the correct distonce, the other the view finder
window F for oscertoining the boundories of
the picture.
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the imoge consists of o fop holf ond q lower
holf which ore mode to move sidewoys by turning
the focussing knob I qnd qre mode finolly to
coincide in one stroight line for obtoining cor-
rect setting of the distonce (which distonce  is
shown then by the position of the focursing knob).
The boundories of the pictures qre then quickly
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oscertqined by meons of the view finder F. As
qppeors from the qbove, two windows lherefore
ore used, one the window H for the setting of
the correct distonce, the other the view finder
window F for oscertoining the boundories of
the picture.
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