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LINEX User manual
User manual for LINEX. 25 pages in English. Read the original PDF, download or print a copy without registration.
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- Brand
- Linex
- Model / document
- LINEX
- Document type
- User manual
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 25
- File size
- 2.7 MB
- Category
- Film cameras
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Wtl,tuM !t{DEX
Poge
CAMERA FRONTAND BACK 4 & 5
&7Yr.,, new LINEX Stereo Camera ,,villspeak the HOW TO LOAD FtrM ............5
truth . . . tell your real-life story in bright, full color, HOW TO OPERATECAMERA .... 8 HOW TO HOLD CATAERA .. 9
in three clirnensions. . . capture vivicl moment: HOW TO MOVE FtrM ..............t0
exactly as yoLrtreasure them in memory. Perhaps your HOW TO REMOVEFtLM ..........tt
friends used to glance at your ordinary snapshots MAIIING FILM TO TABORATORY
anclgrunt, "Uh-huh. Nice." Now just shorvthem your
LINEX color 3-D shots and they'll rave, "It's the MOUNTINGRETURNINGFILMSFITMSTOIN '"'.FRAMES. ::
real thins ! You could shake hands with those people, . t 4
ON COLOR STEREOpick those flowers!" That third dimension is pure HINTS . ..15, 16,17
magic. No trick to using the LINEX, either. First, VIEWER PARTSAND CONTROTS
try a practice run. With no film in camera, go through the 1 8 & t 9
motions of shooting, until you have it all down pat. FrUNG MOUNTED SUDES ........20
Everything easy and natural in your two hands. CoMPLETEUNEX STEREOUNEXFrASHOUTFTT.............2t.......22
Then, make the best photographs ever ! UNEX GUARANTEE.................23View original page 4Page 7 · Read text
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(fratufiu, *x LINEX finwoo,,ltlu/e Hru,
Move viewfinder
releose owoy from
viewfinder to closed
position.
Pushcomerq <> lock upwordto
open position.
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Pull film lqb out
until you heor
ir click.
Push viewfinder
releose toword
viewfinder, lo open
position. Now you
con see through
finder, ond sofety
shutter on film
is openr.
Two views of
brightnesscontrol.
Keep it stroight
down for normol
light. Turn up for Cock shutter by pushing shufier
bright sun oi beoch, cocker fo left, os you foce
in snow scenes,etc. comero, os for os it will go,
For most pictures ond then releose.
keep the control
of "N"- normol.
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ATWAYSADVANCE FILM IO NEXT EXPOSURERIGHT
AWAY AFIER sHOOililG, tO AVOID DOUBTEEXPOSURE.
First press film releose
butlon, ond ot the
some rime pull film tob
with light pressure-
Now releose bulton,
continuingto pull tob.
Film will then odvonce
ond click to o stop
for next picture. After 3 or 4 shols, tuck film
FILIA tob under slide holder on bqck
of comero.This keeps film AFTER EACHRELEASE REPEAI ATI.8 tob out of the woy. UNIIT PICIURE
BUTTON EXPOSURESARE TAKEN
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PROCESSEDFITTN
il NfuJrild'tt lro
ln this envelope you will find your
processedcolor stereo film,
=1- in four pockets, eoch holding o=:;1? strip of film.
Insert these four strips into the
two plostic viewing fromes which
come with unexposed film.
There ore right hqnd ond
left hond poirs. To motch up
poirs, see simple instruclionson
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Hrlfrso.u.IttWW lfrb'Llfiwptfifut
Haue something cloing in the foreground, don,t
gct too fat' ctuay front yottr centcr of intcrest.
That is the advice often dinned into the ears of
snapshooters rvith ordinary cameras.
If it is rvise counsel for them, it is imperative-LINEXI for the maker of stcreo shots. Your
Stereo Camera is desi.qrrir4 !,-'r photogr.aphing
subjccts from G to 10 fcet distant from theI caltlcra. SIEREOEFTECT
CREAIESDEPTH,
A I.IFETIKE IIiAGE
DON'T GET IOO
APPROXIMATELY FAR AWAY
FROM YOUR 6 TEfi FR()T{CAMERA
CENTEROF
INTEREST
The farthel away 1'ou retreat from your mate- out for and avoid unwanted foreground material.
rial, the lcss stlil<ing is the stereo or. thrce- You rvill be shooting with color film. In some
dimensional cffcct. In fact, mountains in the far ways this is easier than making black-and-white
d i s t a n c c , n r i l c s a w a y , d o n o t l o o k t h r e e - picturcs. You don't have to won y whether some-
dinrcrrsional at all, but just stand thele like a body's brown hail is going to merge with a green
stagc backdlop. It is a mattcr of physical and bush in the background. The stereo effect also
optical - larv, and no camera can change this hclps to separate planes, keep objects from run-
statc of affairs. ning together into one image.View original page 16Page 17 · Read text
DANK 3OIID 3HADOW3
w|lHour
IOUNCET,/lIaboiltco[tt BOATD
"the Dez.k of acti'rn."
L e t ' s - s a y a c h i l d i s ahvays manage to eontrol eolors in subject mat'
swinging back and forth ter. Well, loss of detail in dark areas is usually
in a swing. As the swing not too serious. Just don't blame the film, cam-
comes to the end of a era, or your own inexperience for rather
f o r w a r d m o v e m e n t ,
there is an instant of
comparative stillness be-
fore it starts to swing
back. Quite a long in-
stant, in fact. Click the
shutter at that peak-of-action moment and you
;;;-; sfia cotoi shot which looks like a fast
Picture. stop-action""$";i;;6;is'hil;ss rans€. Supposevou have Now for brightnt girlgirl aa darkdark inin iky,iky, bJueblue gi""ttgi""tt foTiage,foTiage, to*uto*u -aa at the seashore, in snow scenes,etc. picture' one in all blouse, wfiite and .[irt Ui"" i-ti;; i; a gieat'brightness range between the You do want plenty of sunlight for average
white and dark blue. subjects. A dull, overcbst day is -not,for the color
The medium tones, neither very dark nor very fan. If there is only a thin cloud veiling the..lun
light, will come out-best. Of course, You can't fiom time to time,-on a sunny day, that veiling
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ol[tlulJnr"Jri rN YouRcoMPlErELINEX ourFrr:
LINEX StereoComero,
shoulderstrop ond
corrying cose.
LINEXBotteryillumin-
oted Stereo Viewer.*
One LINEXmogozine
of 8 poirs of color sfereo
film. Two plostic
viewing fromes.
rEolleries ore nof included.
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n
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--lllJ Your LINEX StereoCamera and Viewer
are rnade by Linex Corporation, a divi-
sion of the LIONEL CORPORATION,
makers of the famous Lionel trains and
accessoriesfor over 50 years.
Both camera and viewer are guaranteed
for one year against any aud all mechan-
ical defects.
The names LINEX and LIONEL both
stand for high quality and integrity of
craftsmanship.
o There can be no sounder guarantee.View original page 24Page 25 · Read text
Flrrr put o rllghf omouni
of tcnrlon on tho fllm tob .
you'll focl lr como lo o
rtop ogoiner fir fllm
rolcoto bution. Thon proet I
rho fllm rclooto button
oncc . oll tho woy don'n-
ond lci ii go. Now pull
rhc fllm tob unrll you
hoor lt cllch to o rlop
for nort plctuo. Afirr 3 or I rholr, you con
rnop thr fllm rob ovrr tho
REPEATAFTER EACH fllm rrlcoeo button. Thlr
PICTUREtn{TIL ALL 8 kocpr film rob out of lho woy.
EXPOSURESARE
TAKEN.
..{i'i.'.'.:' ij'j''i' LINEXCORPORATION$[iiii;ii:jiii]iii:.::.'..:'
A DIVISIONOFTHE
L!ONELCORPORATION
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