Pentacon Pentina User manual

"l     Eye piece for outomotic exposure  contrbl
     2 Meter window
     3 Shutter releose with threod for coble releose
1                  Distonce-setting ring 4
      l                    Depth-of-field scole 5
                 Corrying strop eyelets 6
                 Boyonet locking ring 7
'l                      Flosh selector 8
                Deloyed-oction setting 8o
     9 Flosh contoct socket
    10 Diophrogm-setting lever
     11 Speed-setting lever

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Unlock the comero bock" Pull
out the rewind knob ond, ofter
hoving inserted the film cor-
tridge, push the knob in ogoin.
Pull the film leoder ocross the
picture gote, insert it into the slit
of the receiving spool ond con-
nect one perforotion hole to the

pilot pin. Should the slit in the
   spool not be visible, turn the                         www.butkus.us
   knurled port of the spool to
   bring it into the right position.
   With the film fixed into the spool,   .
                                  thei  wind it on by octuoting
]  cocking lever. The film should be
                             sprocket I odvonced until the  wheel cotches both of the per'
*  foroted edges. Depress the cor-
I  tridge sligthly while odvoncing.  the film.
  Set the picture-counting mecho-                                     t7 15 14  nism on No. 38 by movement
   of the setting lever. Reploce the   Cock the shutter once more, ond
  comero bock ond fosten the lock.   the Pentino is reody for the first
  Actuote the cocking lever twice    exposure. The rewind knob must
  ond releose the shutter eoch    rotote while the shutter is being
   time, whereupon the counting    cocked, os o sign thot the film
  mechonism  wif l  orrive of   0.    is being tronsported properly.
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The shutter is wound ond the I
film tronsported to the next frome
by one sweep of the cocking
lever. At the sqme time the dio-
phrogm is opened to its widest
operture. On releose of the shut-
ter, the diophrogm closes down
to the volue pre-set by meons
of the light meter.

On the bottom of the comero is
  o film speed indicotor for the
   vorious types of film. Here ore
   the symbols ond their rneonings:
     o .   Block-ond-White Film
     fOtOt Color Film
It
            Negotive Artificiol Light         nI
       *    Negotive Doylightt
     0    Reversol Artificiol Light
      1|   Reversol Doylight
   The symbol required hos to be
    set ogoinst the notch.

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The meosuring ronge of the ex-
posure meter reoches from 16 to
128.000 osb. The film sPeed
is set on the bottom of the
comerq when the film is insert-

ed. This is done bY rototion
   of the milled knob (22) to the
    right or left. The scole is groded
   from 9o to 33" DIN ond 6 to
   1600 ASA. First turn the sPeed-
    setting ring to the exPosure
   speed number which oppeors
   to be most fovoroble for the
    object to be photogrophed, for
    instonce rlao sec. Then direct theI    Pentino towords the object, thus
   enobling the photosensitive  cellil  of the built-in exposure meter to
   meosure the light conditions. The
   meter needle in the eyepiece
   lens moves occordingly (o). By                                        (b), ond the correct exPosure'
    turning the diophrogm ring (10)    i. e. combinotion of operture   you bring the foffow pointer to                            ond shutter speed, is thus ob-   coincide with the meter needfe    toined.

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'lf, when setting the diphrogm,  The oppeoronce of the meter     ygu hove orrived qt the widest   needle in the white section of
     operture without bringing the   the eyepiece is o sign thot light
                . meter needle ond follow pointer   meosuring is no longer possible
     to coincide, you moy continue    (c) (speed 1 sec., operture 2,8).        '      turning the diophrogm ring which,   For situotions like this the B     in its turn, outomqticolly tokes   setting is provided. The dio-
      the speed-setting ring (11) olong.   phrogm volues moy be set occor-
      ln this woy, the diophrogm lever   ding to the depth of field ond,
      is converted into o combinotion      if  necessory, q more sensitivet      lever. Engoging the speed-set-    film hos to be used.
     ting ring increoses the torque   The outomotic system of  the     for setting the diophrogm ring.    Pentino qlso permits quite indi-I                                          viduol control, since shutter speed
F    Should the diophrogm                     'depih   vqlue   ond diophrogm moy be operoted     'derived            from the       of field    olso independently of eoch other.
     . required prove unfovoroble, o
    new diophrogm volue hos to be   Very controsty objects moy leod
     determined by modificotion of the   to foulty results in meosuring.
    speed setting.                              It is, therefore, odvisoble in such
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coses- to opprooch the object os    underexposures.www.butkus.uslf you cre using
closely os possible ond t;  toke    filters, remember to toke thethe reoding on the dorkest ond     filter foctors into qccount which
the most importont oreos. When   ore given by the filter monu-reoding the light meter in briqht    focturers. The diophrogm/shutter
sunshine or on wide extensiJns   speed relotionship, os derived
9f s.ky, inclrine the comero slight-   from the film speed, must be
ly downwords to ensure on even    corrected in occordonce with the
distribution of fight ond to ovoid     filter foctor.
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o)  Focusing with the Ploin imoge
         field lens: Wotch Your view-
        finder imoge ond rotote the
        lens ring until the imog'e oP-
       peors shorp.
          Attenl:ion ! The focusing ring
        is right ot the front of the
          lens.
        Focusing with the rongefinder
        lens: In o circulor field ore
       two wedges, whose horizontol
                                 ocrossIb  dividing line posses
        the middle of the field.
        During focusing the two Port
       imoges in the meosuring field
       move towords, or owoy from,
       eoch other. The imoge is in
         correct focus os soon os the
       two ports meet.
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 l+ possible, focus on lines ston_
 ding ot o right ongle to the
 dividing line of the meosuring
 field.
The     distonce             numerot                       set                           stonds
ogoinst                index       the red                             on   t                   mork
the lens mount. The depth-of-         I
field scole reveols the ronge of
shorpness ottoinoble by  the
distonce setting in combinotion
with the vorious diophrogm oper-
tures (e. g.: distonce setting 1,2
meters [4 ft.] operture 8 yields
o ronge of shorpness reoching
from opprox. I meter [3 ft. 4 ins.J
to 1.50 meters t5 ft.l).

Ihe Pentino is equiPPed with o
    ' leof shutter ollowing for instont
    exposures from 1 sec. to l/sos sec,
  When set ot B the  shutter  .
                                   the- i  remoins open os long os
    releose plunger is dePressed"T
                                   bY I  tne shutter moy be releosed
    hond, by o coble releose, or bY I
 I  t.ons  of the  deloYed-oction
?  device. The deloyed-oction  set-
    ting works outomoticollY with the
   X synchronizotion. (Poy ottention
    to the directions for using the
   X contoct!) The shutter is couPled
    to the exposure meter.

know thot the film is ot on end
              ond hos to be spooled bock
                        into the cortridge.
                    Let the cocking lever foll bock.
                     Pull the cronk out, swing the
                    oxle oround holf woy onJ fit  it
                   into the recess. Depress the
                    refeose knob (24) of the film
                      sprocket with your middle finger
                ond rotote the cronk (21) in ihe
                       direction of the orrow.
              A soft, scroping sound of the film
                     slipping off the receiving spool
                     (17) indicotes thot the exposed
                    film is rewound into the cor-ffiw             tridge. The comero bock moy
               now be removed ond the film
                     token out of the comero.

www.butkus.usThe comero lens ist interchonge'
oble by meons of o  boYonet
fitting. By turning the milled
ring (7) onti-clockwise os for os it
will go, you unlock the iens ond
ore oble to toke it out. When
replocinq the lens, moke sure
thot the lrttle pin on the boYonet
mount fits into the recess of the
lens seot. Turn the milled ring
clockwise to fosten the  lens.
The stondord lens of the Pentino
                                                                                      fis the 50 mm Jeno T,                            l2'8. The
following interchongeoble lenses
ore to be provided:
Meyer Wide Angle 30 mm  f 13.5
                                      112.8Jeno Cordinor  85 mm
Meyer Domigor 135 mm fl4
All lenses ore equipPed with
outomotic diophrogm setting.

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                M Contoct X Contoct
  oppticoble for electronic flosh    opplicoble for flosh bulbs of the
  ond bulbs. Electronic floshes rnoy  M closs (short-burning bulbs),
                                shutter   but not for  electronic flosh'  be synchronized ot qll
  speeds uP to 1/5so sec' With flosh    Pleose note the directions given
   bulbs, the shutter hos to be                                      set   by the lomP monufocturers'
    olLlzo sec. or longer. Detoils con-                            The different contocts, X, M, or   cerning the individuol shutter                                  the   V, ore set bY meons of the lever  speeds ore contoined in                                  (8) either before or ofter the   monufocturers' instructions for
   using the vorious tYPes of bulbs'    shutter hqs been cocked.
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On the lower side of the two   ber ore derivpd from the flosh
                                                                  distonce,shutter rings ore two scoles.   bulb to be used. The
These indicote'the distonce be-    olso, is fixed. By rototion of the
                                                                          ' diophrogm ring this distonce istween flosh bulb ond obiect (m)                              set ogoinst the guide number(19) ond the guide numbers                                  indicoted for the bulb, wherebY(z) (20). In   f losh work, these                                 the diophrogm required is simul'
figures help you, on the bose of                                  toneously set, becouse the dio-
o certoin guide number, to find   phrogm ond distonce scoles of
the correct operture required for   the guide number colculotor ore
the exposure.                  orronged on the some ring
Exposure speed ond guide num-    (illustrotion  3).

Close-up exposures qre possible
with the help of supplementory
lenses. The Pentinq, os o single-
lens reflex comero, is especiolly
suited for close-up work, since
finder imoge ond negotive, or
tronsporency, ore of the some
size, qnd the finder imoge is
free of porollox,