Leica bellows User manual

1 LEICAFLEX body                         4 Arresting lever for knob (3)
2 Red-dot marking on the bayonet mount   5 Locking catch for the camera lens
   for the camera body                      6 Aperture preselection ring of the lens
3 Focusing knob for preselected             7 lnterchangeable 1 00mm MACRO-
  reproduction ratio                   ELMAR  f /4 with LETCAFLEX bayonet
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8 Rotating scale with reproduction           11  Sliding ring for opening the lens
   scales for the 90, 100, and 135mm          diaphragm
   lenses and a mm scale                   12 Lever for adjusting the diaphragm
 9 Setting mark                                        in the open position
10 Extension adjustment knob              13 Bush for twin cable release
                                                                                '|.4 Lever catch for upright and horizontal
                                                   position

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Twin cable release (Code No. 16494)
Screw the part of the twin cable release   length of the cable can be adjusted with
whose pin appears first when the release   the adjustment screw (15) so that during
is pressed into the lens panel (13), the   the operation of the twin cable release the
other into the cable release bush in the   sequence and time interval between the
camera body, so that the lens diaphragm   closing of the lens diaphragm and the
is closed to the preselected value before   release of the shutter are correctly ad-
the camera shutter is released when the   jusied to each other. For long time expo-
twin cable release is operated. The two   sures the twin cable release can be arres-
parts of the twin release are also easily   ted by means of the clamping screw (17).
distinguished in that one is not adjustable;
the other, for the camera shutter, can be
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After release of the counter nui (16) the

Preselected reProduction scale           Ghange from horizontal to upright picture
lf a certain reproduction scale has been   For the change-over between horizontal
laid down for work from a tripod, extend  and upright pictures the lever catch (14)
the bellows to the relevant scale value (8),    is pressed and the camera rotated to the
and focus only with knob (3). The setting     left or right.
can be arrested with the lever (4).

Measure the exposure





LEICAFLEX SL with through-the-lens
measurement
In the through-the-lens measurement of     lf the light is not bright enough the ex-
the LEICAFLEX SL the extension factor is   posure is measured at full aperture, and
allowed for. The measurement is obtained   the shutter speed adjusted to the working
through the working aperture provided the   apertu re"
illumination of the object is bright enough.
The two pointers in the viewfinder are
made to coincide by adjustment of the
lens d iaph rag m and/or of the sh utter speed
diaf of the camera. Adjustment of the lens
diaphragm acts on the measuring pointer,
that of the shutter speed dial on the followwww.butkus.us
pointer in the camera viewfinder.

LEICAFLEX with external measurement
The exposure meter of the LEICAFLEX  The strips have the same dimensions as
with external measurement cannot be used   the scale on the focusing bellows; they
in ccmbination with the focusing bellows,   can be cut out of the Instruction Manual
because the window of the measuring cell   and glued on to the scales (8).
is obstructed by the lens panel of the
focusing bellows.
The value determined without focusing
bellows must be multiplied by an exten-
sion factor according to the table below.