DOLLINA Camera LISTED User manual

LOADING OF THE FILM
Open comero bock by sliding the cotch in the
direction of the orrow engroved on some. Pull
out knob A of illustrotion. Put the spool in the
empty comportment. lnsert the topered end of      I
the film in the slot of the empty spool ond threod                                                                                             I
evenly vrith o few turns of the knob B.  Close    I
the bock of the comero with the cotch.                                                                                                                    i
The left side of the perforoted film engogesthen                                                                                             I
in the theeth of the counting device ond the                                                                                                                    i
threoding gets locked outomoticolly,when the      l
knob B is wound o  little furfher- This outomotic
locking of the film ocaurs ofter every exposure
ond  in order to wind the film further for the
following exposure it is oiily necessoryfo press
on the releose knob C (illustrotionpoge 4).
When looding the film,  it  is odviseoble to set
the counfing device on Zero by oction of the                                                                                              t '--
knob C, so thot the counting storts from Zero up Jf.ll--
to 36 exposures.This setting to Tero occurs\
freeing the knob G from its locking device onC; .'n
T;;::?,:;T :"",;;:n'i?;.lllj',il""*il,'#!vice is then switched"     bock to ils locking position.



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





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   MAKING THE EXPOSURE
The focussingot o given distonce con be effec-

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ted while the comero  is stifl closed by rototing
    the focussing diol to the required distonce (fo-
                        cussingcon olso be ef-
                           fected while the cqmero
                                  is open).  The opening
                      _ B  of the comero occurs by
                          pressingbuttonE (illustro-
                              tion pqge 4l'. The setting
                              of Compur Shutter,oper-
                           ture of lens, etc.occurs                               --                 G                                 in the usuot woy. The
                        boundoriesof the pictu-
                           res ore oscertoined by
                     meons of the opticol tu-
                                    - 6  bulor view finder (in-built
                           fype). The closingof the
                       comero  is  effected by
                         pressingwith boththumbs
                       on both sidesof the block                  _A
                      enomel front plote qnd
                          closing the bose boord.
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             UNLOADING                  :
   The film must be wound bockwords to the origi-
    nol position by  pulling out the winding k"y B



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ond slightlyturning some anti-clockwise(controry
    to the direction shown by  its orrow) so os to
   disengoge the spool for the reverse spooling.
   The reverse spooling occurs then by  turning
    lhe reverse key A  in the direction of  its orrow
    until the pull required oppeors to be suddenly
    greotly reduced, due to   f he  lost perforotion
   being over.The hinged bock con then be opened
   ond the film unlooded.
  ADDITIONALI NSTRUCTIONSFOR
      DOLLINA  II
          (Coupled Ronge Finder Model)f The Dollino ll  is operoted in the some woy os
   the Dollino I. Howeyer, os for os the distonce
    is concerned, the  Dollino  ll   is outomoticollyt
    of the coupled ronge finder which is operotedl  focussedto the distonceof the subiectby meons
   os follows:
   The comero is held in the left hond. By lookingI trough the test window H  of the ronge finder,
   fhe operotor will, os long os the distonce is not
   correctly set, see the picture seporoted in two
   holves.By turning the focussingknob  I until the
   two imoges ore mode to coincide, the correct



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setting of the distonceis outomoticollyobtoined.
Avoid when focussing ollowing the   f ingers f o
obliterote the front window of the ronge finder.
Wheh, for instqnce,the subiect is q tree trunk,
the imoge consists of o top ho lf ond o lower
holf which ore mode to move sidewoys by turning
the focussing knob I qnd ore 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 focussingknob).
The boundoriesof the pictures qre then quickly
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oscertoined by meons of the view finder F. As
oppeqrs from the obove, two windows therefore  1ore used, one the window H for the setting of
the correct d istonce, the other the view  f inder
window F  for oscertoining the boundories of
the picture.


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ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS
    DoLLTNA lll

 Lood film etc., os Dollino I or  ll. Locking device
 ope_rotesos exploined 2nd. porogroph-poge 2
 of Dollino instrrjctions,except thoi for mba6t ttt
 the releose knob M  is of the bock of the comero,
 ond is operoted by sliding towords winding key.
 SHUTTER is set in the usuol woy (see Compur
 instructions).
 RETEASE is o plunger R fitted on rop of co-
 mero which should be depressed fully.  li connot
"be ogoin depressed rriitil either
   (o). film  is set forword  for onother exposure
      gs previously exploined. This prevents un-
       intentionol dout.le exposures.
      or
   (b). tiny. kno.b5. neor to this plunger hos been
     pushed bqck towords bock of iqmero, when
           it is required to depress plunger twice for
      time exposures.
FltM COUNTER   is sef to 0 bv turnino in o
clockwisedirection when looding the film.-FOCUSSING  os Dollino ll.          f
FllM  RE-l/l|IND  os Dollino ll.



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