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Kodak Bantam Flash User manual
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- Kodak Bantam Flash
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- English
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76e K"q tu,4 Shutter Speed Lever
3 Lens Opening Lever GOOD PTCTURES
Focusing Pointer tlzie Sefidr4t4 e 3
D Comero Opening Button Shutter Speed ,1 t Shutter Cocking Lever This setting controls the length of
Exposure Button time thot the shutter stoys open to 7
odmit light to the film.
A Lens Opening
This setting controls the omount of
light thot posses through the lens
while the shutter is open.
Focus e
When the lens is properly focused
for the distonce between ihe com-
ero ond the subiect, the light thot
reoches the film forms o shorp im- t
oge of the subieci.
fhe linfed oppeoronce of fhe lens is due fo Lumenizing... o speciol hord cooling opplied to oll oir-gloss sur-
foces of lhe lens. fhis freofmenf increoses lightwww.butkus.ustronsmission ond decreoses internol reflecfions fhus improving
lhe brillionce of block-ond-whiie pictures ond fhe color purily of full-color picfures.View original page 3Page 5 · Read text
$ AeV prrrtllup
Urile
The negotives mode with Your Kodok
Flqsh Bontom con be greotly enlorged.
Your photofinisher offers o stondord size
enlorged print-usuolly 23/ax4 inches-
iust the right size for your qlbum.
azd 7an*27 too
Pictures in full color or in block ond white
Kodok Flosh Bontom con moke-yourboth. Kodochrome Prints ore full-color
enlorgements mode f rom Your Kodo-
chrome tronsporencies. The prints ore
ovcrifoble in 4 sizes-2[,3X,5X, ond 8X.
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S6afier? S/&d
The shutter hos four snopshot speeds:
1 /200 of o sec- 1 /100, ond 1 /25, 1 / 50,
ond. Set the speed with lever A-cock
the shutter with lever E. (See poge 9.) The
con be held open for longer ex-?o Oprra rie edrncsra shutter
Press the button D next to the film wind- posures by setting the lever ot the letter
ing knob ond the front plote will then "8" or "T" on the diol.
spring into picture-toking position. lt is You con hold the comero in your honds
odvisoble to check the force of the spring for exposures of 1/200, 1/100, 1/50,
f or " B" or "T" ex-by holding the thumb lightly ogoinst the I /25 oi o second;
front plote os it opens. posures, the comero must be ploced on
o tripod or other firm support.
I /l 007n Opnn tie Teerrr Tchden lN GENERAT o shutter speed of
Roise the front frome of the view finder second should be used for block-ond-
ond the reqr frome will snop into posi' white pictures mode outdoors in sunlight.
tion. By sighting through the finder you A fost shutter speed helps prevent blurred
con now see whot will be included in pictures coused by.omero or subiect
your picture, but on o much smoller scole) motion when you snop the pictures.
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*- y'etta Opzntaga
As the lever B is moved ocross the scole, Adiusting the comero lens for distonce
the lens opening is groduolly chonged in is colled "focusing." lt is occomplished
size. The opening is smollest when the by turning the lens mount until the figure
fever is or f /16. Eoch preceding setting indicoting the number of feet from com-
odmits, in o given exposure time, twice ero to subiect is ot the pointer C.
os much light os the one before-f/l I To ossure shorp pictures when the sub-
distonce fets through twice the light oI f /16,f /8 iect is closer thon l0 feet, the
twice thot of f/11,ond so on.* must be meosured occurotely ond the
+One exception to this rule. The lorgest opening, lens set ot this distonce. When the dis-
f f 4.5, odmils only l1/2 times more light thon f/5.6. tonce is greoter thon l0 feet, it con be
Lens opening ond shutter speed, ol- sofely estimoted.
though odiusted seporotely, work to- The Kodok Service Ronge Finder (be-
gether to odmit the right omount of light low) ond clip for ottoching it to the
to the f ilm. The Snopshot Kodoguide comero ore ovoiloble os occessories for
pocked with the comero ond the ex- determining distonces occuroiely. 7
posure tobles (poge 26) provide the cor-
rect combinotion of settings for the light-
ing conditions ond the type of subiect.
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Za&:'ry tiz ?taaap
I Compose the picture in the finder.
2 Set the focus, the lens* opening,
ond the shutter speed.
3 Cock the shutter by pushing the
COCKING LEVER os for os it will go.
4 Hold the comero steody-it's o good7/e ?tpct, 7&4dzr" ideo to hold your breoth while you
Hold the comero firmly ogoinst the foce press the exposure button F.
with the reor of the finder close enough 5 After eoch picture hos been token,
to the eye to moke the edges of the reor press the button thot unlocks the film
frome oppeor superimPosed on the ond turn the winding knob until it
edges of the front finder frome. locks outomoticolly for the next ex-
lf the subiect is 10 feet from the comero posure.
neorer-compose the picture in the *Nole: Like ony fine lens, this lens should be-orfinder; then tilt the comero o trifle to the cleoned with core. lf either the front or bock sur-
right-when moking verticol pictures- foce requires cleoning, first brush owoy ony grit
or o trifle upword-when moking hori- orLensdust.CleoningThen wipePopertheor osurfocecleon, gentlysoft, lintlesswith Kodokcloth.
zontol pictures-so thot the picture will lf moisture is necessory, breothe on the lens or
include whot wos first seen in the finder. use Kodok Lens Cleoner.
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Rertarrutg t6. /ce*
After the eighth exposure, hold down
the button thot releoses the film odvonce
while the rest of the roll is wound off
onto the toke-up spool. When the end
of the poper hos possed the green win- For everydoy picture moking, films differ
dow, turn the winding knob twice more mostly in the omount of light they require
to moke sure thot the roll of film will be to record o picture well ond their obility
completely seoled before opening the to produce o porticulor effect. The dif-
bock of the comero. Open in subdued ferent Kodok Films, described here, will
/ight. Remove the roll by grosping the cover oll of your picfure-toking situo-
spool flonge opposite the winding knob tions in block ond white ond color.
ond drowing the spool owoy from the
winding knob post. eahQ
IMPORTANI-The protective pqper For color film tronsporencies use Kodo-
should not be pulled tight or seoled with chrome Film K828 for doylight ond the
o sticker or rubber bond. The spring K828A for Photoflood light. Kodochrome
flonges on the spool will hold it securely. Film must be procesidd (cost included in
Develop the film os soon os possible price of filmlot on Eostmon Kodok Lobo-
exposures.ofter exposure. rotory. K828 or K828A; I
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PIus-X Ponchromotic Film
The combined high speed ond fine groin
of Kodok Plus-X Ponchromotic Film moke
it the ideol f ilm for generol outdoor work.
PX828;8 exposures.
.
Super-XX Ponchromotic Film
Becouse of its very high speed, this film
is the logicol choice for mqking snop-
shots indoors with Photoflood Lomps.
Indoors or out, it is the film to use when
the light is poor. XX828; 8 exposures. ffi
Ponotomic-X Film
Becouse of its ultro fine groin, this film
is recommended when big enlorgements
ore to be mode or extreme detqil is de-
sired. lts speed is holf thot of Kodok
Plus-X Film. FX828; 8 exposures.
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mosl common subiects corn be clqssified into four stondord groups lo which 7,/6af To the question, "Whol exposure shcll I use?" lhe qnswer is mode eqsy becouse
definile exposures con beoossigned. The exposures given below qrd for Kodok
Plus-X Ponchromotic Film fnder bright sun conditions; further exposure informo- tw? lion cqn be found on pog$ 26 and in the Snopshot Kodoguide.
AVERAGE SUBJECT BRIGHT SUBJECT BRIIIIANT SUBJECT SHADED SUBJECT I Beoch, morine, qnd snow People ond ofher subiects This is fhe mosl common Neor-by people in morine,
of oll picture-loking silu- beoch, qnd snow scenes. scenesi londscopes wilh- not in the sun but lighted
otions neor-by people, Scenics with foreground out prominent dqrk obiecls by open sky. A subiect - gordens, houses, ond obiects. This subiect re- in the foreground. There's like this requires twice
sceneE not in shode. In quires holf the exposure plenty of lighl here. With the exposure you would
genercl, use lhis clqssift- of the overoge subiect. bright sunlight, give lhis give lhe overoge sunlit
cotion if in doubf. For such Use hclf lhe exposure subiecl only one quorler subiecf. Increqse the lens
tl piclure, lhe exposure time ol fl8., 01 close the the exposure you would opening to ff 5.6, or moke
time should be: lens opening one selting: give the qvercae subiect: on exposure of:
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ff osh Lqmp for exposures of 1125 second
on ly.
After the Flosholder is ottqched to the
comero, yoU hove only, to insert o flosh
lomp ond proceed os with the usuol
snopshot. The picture is token by pressing
the exposure button.
Supplementory instructions ond expo-
sure informotion ore given in the monuol
pocked with the Kodok Flosholder ond
the Flosh Kodoguide.
Only o Kodok Flqsholder ond Photoflosh In moking colculotions from the tobles
Lomps ore needed to moke unposed in the Flosholder monuol, it is importont
snopshots ot night with the Kodok Flosh to remember thot, with the No.5 LomP,
Bontom. The synchronizing mechonism is the guide numbers under the heoding
built into the shutter of your comero ond OPEN should be used.
is connected to the Flosholder by the t9
Flosholder Cord ot the POST, locoted in
the bock of the shutter foce plote.
Use either of two flosh lomps: The SM
Photoflosh Lomp for exposures of 1125,
1150, or I /l 00 second, or the No. 5 Photo-
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FOR GOOD PICTURES
Tell o Slory
lf your pictures tell o story of o single
glonce, they ore interesting, not iust to
Deep shode in the doytiffi€, interiors, you but olso to your friends. Try to
osstreet scenes of night, ond mony other "shoot" your subiect doing something,
subiects offer opportunities for excellent if unowore of your presence. Include, if
pictures through use of o time exposure. you con, on occessory in the picture to
To moke o time exposure, ploce the engoge the subiect's interest. The result
comero on o tripod* or other firm sup- will be o noturol, seemingly unposed pic-
port. For short time exposu res set the ture expressing on ideo spontoneously. 23
shutter of ''B"1 cock the shutter; then press
the exposure button. The shutter remoins
open os long os the exposure button is
depressed. For exposures longer thon ten
seconds, set the shutter of "T"; cock the
sh utter; press the exposure button to
open the shutter ond ogoin to close it.
*The use of the occessory Kodok Tilt-o-Pod is'
recommended if verticol pictures ore desired with
the tripod. Remove the lorge tripod screw in the
bose of the comero cose to odmit these occessories.
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Look Beyond the Subiect
Moke sure thot your bockground is o
suitoble setting for your picture. Be cer-
toin thot o tree or pole does not oppeor
to be growing out of your subiect's heod.
Obiects with pronounced verticol or hori-
zontol lines, such os on orbor or clop-
boqrd5, often detroct from the moin point
of interest in your picture. The sky mokes
on excellent bockground. Toke odvon-
tose of this by trying o low viewpoint.
Side qnd Bock Lighting iects, odding life ond brillionce to them.
Pictures in which the light comes from the Increose the exposure for o bock-lighted
side of the scene often give o feeling of subiect to secure shodow detoil.
isdepth not eosily obtoined in o front- With either side or bock lighting it
lighted picture. Shodows ocross the fore- importont to shield the comero lens from
ground moke you feel thot you ore look- direct light by keeping the lens in the
ing into rother thon ot the picture. shode, or using the Kodok Lens Hood
Bock lighting outlines foreground ob- (see poge 32l'View original page 16Page 18 · Read text
Spzrrnl /ct'eo 4w
Kodqslide Proiecror
Both the Kodoslide Proiector Model I
Kodok Infrqred Film 1R828 ond Model 2A ore suitoble for home
The most common use of Infrored Film is viewing of Kodochrome tronsporencies
photogrophing distont londscopes cleor- or block-ond-white positives. The Kodo-
f y, even when hoze cjbscures the distont stide Proiector Model 1, mode of molded
detoil to the eye. lnfrored Film must be plostic, is qn inexpensive proiector thot
used with o deep oronge or red filter proiects excellent imoges on lorge size
over the comero lens. screens, while the Model 2A, in which
the bose, turret heod, ond lomPhouseKodok Direc] Positive ore die-cost, is o compoct, quolity-builtPqnchromslic DP828 proiector in which skillful design elimi-
A fost, fine-groined film which byspeciol notes oll unnecessory bulk without socri-
reversol processing gives block-ond- ficing efficiency in performonce.
white positive tronsporencies of the high-
est quolity directly on the moteriol ex-
posed in the comero. Processing con be
done in the home dorkroom with the
Kodok Direct Positive Film Developing
Outfit.
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Enlargers
moy be reodily converted for copying,The Kodok Portoble Mini- cin6-titling, moking color-seporotionoture Enlorger ond the negotives, ond for photomicrogrophy.Kodok Precision Enlorger
A ore excellent perform- Kodok Eye-Level TriPod
ers in their individuol This sturdy oluminum tripod provides
f ields. The Kodok Port- rigid, dependoble support for your com-
oble Minioture Enlorger ero. lt meosures 22'/, inches folded ond
is o compoct, eosy-to-use 50 inches extended.
enlorger thot, olthough it Coble Releose No. 30
con be quickly token Remove the screw qt the bottom of the
down ond pocked in its right side of the shutter housing ond re-
Corryoll Cose, provides ploce it with the cqble releose.
the home dorkroom with Sole leofhe r Field Ccrseenlorging equipment thot
A smort leother corrying cose, with neckproduces crisp, h igh-q uo l- strop, protects the comerq qnd permitsity prints. it to be reody of o moment's notice. 3l Although the Kodok
Precision En lorger is de-
signed primorily for mok-
ing fine enlorgements, it
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"How To Moke Good
PicluresI
A hondbook for fhe every-
doy photogropher. lt of-
fers picture - moking f un-
domentols in their sim-
plest form ond is profuse-Kodok Combination
' ly illustroted in block ondLens Attochmenfs white ond color.The Series V Lens Attochments ore used
with the Kodok Flosh Bontom f14.5. The
bosis of the combinotion is the l% a-inch
Kodok Adopter Ring with its Adopter
Ring Insert. All Wrotten Filters, supple- tM crr4d*lt(a/,..
mentory lenses, Polo-Screen, ond Lens wqs prepored lo help you moke good piclures rightHood ore ovoiloble in this series.
A color iiller odds greotly to the pic- from the stort, ond consequently gel more enioyment from photogrophy. There qre mony Kodok publico-
toriol effects of block-ond-white pictures lions,on vorious phoses of phoiogrophy ovoilcrble
by dorkening the sky ond recording the ol your Kodok deolerfs-some free ond some ql q
clouds. Three Wrotten Filters con be used nominql price. Ask for lhem. Any commenls or
for this purpose, the K2, G, or A, result- questions cbncerning your resuhs wilh this camero
ing in medium, strong, ond extro strong or your inleresls in piclure moking will be welcome.
effects respectively. Soles Service Division
Eostmon Kodok Gompony . Rochester 4, N. Y.32
M-142A
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