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FALCON Minature User manual

User manual for FALCON Minature. 5 pages in English. Read the original PDF, download or print a copy without registration.

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Brand
Falcon
Model / document
FALCON Minature
Document type
User manual
Language
English
Pages
5
File size
1.1 MB
Category
Film cameras
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oUARANTEE                                              The Fslcon Miniqfure
  This Falcon Miniofure
    is  unconditionally    g,uaranteed  again,st
   defective workmanship  and material  for
   a period  of one year.

  FOR SERVICE  return camera to  f actory
   with  this guarantee attached and twenty-
    five  cents  in  stamps to  cover  handlirg
   and postage.
          &

     Ve  want  you  to  get the   f ullest  sat-
    isfaction from  your Falcon camera. You
    will   if you follow  the simple instructions***
   which   are  contained   in   this  booklet.
   Please read them thoroughly  before com-
   mencirg  to use the carnera.
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   the lense with a soft cloth or handker-****   chief,  before using camera, to  insure                  A-LE,NS
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To  Load  c,nd Unlosd  Gqmerq                  The  film   is now  properly  placed  in
                                                      the camera and shut.  Follow  directions
  Always  load and unload  camera in  a              for winding Yery carefully.
subdued light,  never near a bright  sun-
                                    To Wind FiImlight.  Hold back of  car,r.eratoward you
                                                   Turn  the winding  k.y  slowly,  whileand push lock slide in direction of arrow                                                  watching  the lower red window on back
                                                                                                                                 t(and remove back.  See that  the empty                                                              of  camera. Vhen  the figure                                                                                                                                                           I " appears
spool is in the Top receptacle ( along side              in  the center of  the lower red window
of  the winding  k.y)   with  the notched          marked (A)  the camera is ready for use.
end in contact with  the winding  k.y.            See illustration below.

  Place the film  in the lower receptacle.
Now  break the seal in which the roll  is
held in  place.  Pull  the end of  the red
paper toward  the empty  spool. Thread                                        Top  Vindow   B
the end  of  the red  paper through  the
broadest side of the slit of the spool. Now                                         Lower  Vindow   A
turn  the winding  k.y  tsro or three times
toward the right  so that the paper will
begin to  roll onto the empty  spool.

  Replace the back, by holding the back
                                              As soon as you have taken the picture
of  the  carr'cra toward  lou,  and placing                                              be sure to  wind  number    l  from   (A)
the cut  out  near the window  B under          window  to  (B)  window.  You  are now
the metal receptacle and pressing back            ready to snap your second p,icture. Re-
gently downwards.                                 peat process afrcr every picture.

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          'sirhen             number  8 appears in  center  of        Time Exposures
       (B)  window  you   will  have  taken  16                                                  To  take  time  exposure  pictures  press       pictures.
                                                              lever from  25  to  bulb.   This  lever  is
       Vhen  you have taken  all the pictures           on  the  right  side of name plate, when
     keep turning  the key  until  the complete             'the                                                     camera is facing you.        roll  of  film   (including  the  red paper
      which  protects   it)   is  all wound  on the                 In  taking  time  exposures place  the
      top  roll.                                                 camera on a firm  object such as a table
       Opur back of camera ps when loading,                         i{       or  chair.  Never  hold  c^mera  in  your
      rernove roll  of  film;  now  seal roll  with            hand.  After  sighting  your  object press
      piece of gummed paper which  you  will                                                                shutter release,keeping your  finger on  it,
       find  on  the end  of  the  roll,  so that   it
                                                         counting  the number  of seconds of  ex-     cannot run  loose.                                   t-
                                                                                                lilirhen the required num-                                                       posure desired.
                       eie                               ber  of  seconds has expired  -   and not
                                                                           until  then  -   remove your  finger  from
    To Take Picfures                                 the shutter release. If no more time ex-
        Hold  the  camera  with   the  sight  as           posures are desired, adjust for  instantan-
      close to' the eye as possible, keeping the                                                     eous pictures, by pushing  lever back  to
     camera firmly  against the  face.  Make                                                       2 5 .      sure the object or subject you are taking
        is framed  within  the finder.
                                                Suifqbfe LiEht Condifion
       The   carr'era MUST   be  held   level.                                                                            In, taking  instantaneous pictures, be     Should  the  subject  be below  your  eye
       level,  like  a small  animal,  the  camera            sure that  the sun is directly  behind your
      should be held down level with  the center            back.    If  sun  shines directly   into  the
       of the subject.                                           lens, pictures  will  be fogged.

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