Kodak Retina II User manual

First steps

Al To open  the camera
Press button  I ;  lilt the comero gently forword  (fig. 3t'
Pull the boseboord down  until you heor the lwo slruts
 snop into position.





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B ) To close the camera
 The RETINA ll musl be closed only when the focus;ing
 lens mount is set on OO (infinity).
  lf the comero is closed when lhe lensmount ist set for
 ony olher distonce lhon oo  (infinily) serious domoge
 mcry resull. To close the comero, -press in  the two
 tocking-knobs 2 on the sides of the front-plote  (fig.   )
 o n d  f o l d u p   l h e b o s e b o o r d o t  t h e s o m e t i m e .
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Descriplion
The lens
of  the RETINA ll  is either o  six lens Retino-Xenon
t 22,0or o Heligon  t 22,0 of some lens number shown
in the mcrnuol. These lenses ore most corefully selecfed
ond corrected to produce the best possible results.

                                   In order fo tqke o good
                                picture  it   is importont
                           olwoys to keep the lens
                              cleon.  In cleoning the
                               lens be  coreful not  to
                               scrotch  it.  Best resulf s
                        mgy  be  obtoined  by
                             using regulor Kodok lens
                           poper or o smoll piece
                                   of soft cloth.
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The slops
(or  diophrogm  openings)  ore  odiusted  by  moving
lever 4 to the oppropriole  lens slop.
The slops ore  imporlont  for  lhe depth  of focus (see
"Deplh  of Focus-Scole").
The more deplh  of focus you need, the smoller the
lens operlure. The smoller the lens operlure the higher
the stop number (stop 5,6 is smoller thon stop 4).
The exposure  time
is odiusted by  lurning the  milled  ring  5  until  lhe
desired shulter speed comes over the orrow on  lhe
left of the word "Kodok". The numbers represent froc-
tions of seconds. A guide lo correct exposure is given
in lhe "Exposure loble"  ol the reor  of the monuol.
To use as a Fixed Focus Camera

                        set the stop to f.8 ond focus lhe
                       lens on the red point neor 25feet.
                     Everything will then be in shorp
                      focus from  "lnfinity"  to l5 feet.
                      With the stop set to f.8 ond the
                       lens focussed on ihe othcr  red
                        point neqr l0 feet, everything is
                     shorp from l5 feet to 7 feet. (Do
                        not forget to set the Focus bqck
                           to "infinity"  before :losing the
                     co m ero).
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The Compur Rapid Shutler

The Compur Ropid Shulter on your "Retino"  ll  wlll give
exposures of  l,  rlz, rls, rln,  rlzs, rlsc, l/uo, l/zsl ond  l/soc,
olso Bulb exposures. The figures morked on lhe milled
ring represenl fruclions of o second: 2:tlz,  100- Uroo,
 elc. The shutter must be set for oll exposures including
 Bulb, by pressing over lhe setling-lever 6 os for os  it
will go. The setting Jever must not be  left in o  holf-
woy  position becouse the  shulter might then open
occidento!ly.  Exposures ore mode  by  pressing the
body shutter releose 7.





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For Bulb exposures ('B') the shulter opens when the
shuller releose  is pressed ond  closes when   it  is re-
leosed. For lhese exposures  il  is qdvisoble  to screw
lhe "Retino"  ll on lo o lripod;  lhere is o tripod socket
18 for  this purpose. Next  to the body-releose there
is  o  socket into  which  the  coble-releose con  be
screwed.

The Depth  oI Focus Scale





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The Film Loclc





    Film  transporl  and  shuffer  release  do  onl
    operate when  rhe  film  is loaded.  Therefore,
    SSvell
rhe number of the loken piclures con be seen frorn
the exposure counler 13.

The exposure  Counler





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Handling  of camera
How to load  lhe  film
Lift the locking cotch 16 ond open  the bock  of  the
comero. L.oy the comero down  in front  of you, ope-
ned,. so. thot fhe bock  is on  the  right  (fig.  l3). Pull
out knob 17 os for os  it will come ond inserl lhe new
cosselle of  Kodok  block-ond-white  or  Kodochrome"
film in the film-chomber (fig. l4). Push in ond  ot the
some time lurn knob l7 to hold lhe cossette in posilion-
Threod the end of the film into one of the slois in lhe
spool  in the right-hond film.chomber (fig. l5).  Give
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knob 12 o holf furn to see thot the film is firmly fixed
in lhe  slot. Be sure lhot the  film  lies stroight  in the
trod< provided;  then  close the bock  of  lhA comero
ond  turn knob 12 os  for os   it  will  go.-duringAs the  first
lenglh of film moy hove been fogged         lhe loo-
ding  operolion   it  is odvisoble  lo  wind  tha  film on
one more picture-length. This is done by  first setting
the  shutter ond  pressing the body  shutter releosel
this ollows the winding knob to  lurn. Now  lurn lhe
exposure counier 13 to the fig.  l. Push down ond  in
ond turn the smoll wheel l5  until the exposure coun-
ter 13 shows fig.  l.





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Winding  on the  film
The film is wound on  ofler eoch exposure by lurning
rnou 12 in the direclion of the orrow os for os  il will
oo. You connot wind on the film wilhout  first setting
6na releosing the shuller, so thot double exposures
ond blonks <rre ovoided.

How  lo unload  lhe  IiIm





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only  then  moy  the  bock  be  opened  ond  the  cossetle
 of  lxposed    fiim  be  token   out.    lt   is  odvisoble   not  lo
  l o o d  o r  u n l o o d     t h e    f i l m     i n  b r i l l i o n t   s u n s h i n e ,  o s    t h e
 f i r s l    f e w   e x p o s u r e s  m o y   b e c o m e      f o g g e d .

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R E C A P I T U tAT  I O I\U





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O  open  the cqmereil  O  Set the                            dicphrogm   sccrle
                                    to the desired flnumber

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O  Sighr rhrough the ronge-finder
   ond mqke sure thqt the lwo irnoges of the subiect
    coincide excctly qnd subiect is correcily fromed.
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