View-master Mark II stereo User manual

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  l. Ropidwind button       7, I l, 16, 26  16. Subiectcolour symbol         9,23
 2. Coble releqsesocket            25  17. Light conditionsymbcl           9, 23
 3. Rewindbutton                 16  18. ExposureVolue scole    13,21, 22, 25
 4. Floshworning signol            14  19. Exposuresettingdiol         7, 8, 9, 27
 5. Floshdistonceindex       14, 15,24  20. Exposurecounterwindow        7, 16
 6. Film speed index                 7, 24  21. Exposurecountersettingknob      7
 7. Viewfinder window                    22. Time-exposurelever        25, 26, 27
 8. Accessoryshoe                13, 26  23. Tripod socket                  25, 26
 9. Tonguefor film speedodiustment  7   24. Bock cover locking buttons         6
10. Floshdistoncewindow         14, 24  25. Toke-upspool                    6, 16.|1.  M flosh contoct(for flosbulbs)   13  26. Perforotiontooth                  6
12. X f loshcontoct(for electronicf losh) l3   27. Sprocketwheel                   7
13. Rewindknob                  6, 7, 16  28. Viewfinder eyepiece                 l0
14. Shutterreleosebutton     7, 11, 12,27  29. Rewindshoft                      6
15. Protectivef ilters                27  30. Film mogozine                   6

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Any 35 mm film, in lhe stondordcortridge,will fit the comero.Of course,you will choose
o colourfilm -   firsl, becouseihe exlremereolismof Stereowould lose muchof its effect
in block ond white -  secondly,becouseyou needo lronsporentimoge,ond the stondord
doylight reversolcolour film is the eosiestwoy lo get it. A negotivecolour film is less
suitoble.
length of film : The films normollysold os < 36 exposuresr will yield up to 75 slereopoirs.
This length mightservefor vocotions,o long trip etc.
Of courseit offers the greolesteconomy-  one or two films might lost lhe whole trip.
-  The < 20 exposure> films will yield 40 stereo-exposuresond is best for overogeuse-
Its economyis still so greof thof you con offord to toke the film out of the comerowhen
little more thon holf of it hos been exposed.

Film speed : As you hove lensesof odequotepower (f z 2,8),you will not normollyneed
highspeedcolourfilms.Filmsof overoge-speedore more economicolond lesssensitivelo
poor storogeconditions.
The slowerthe film speed,the more detoil ond shorpnessyour pictureswill hove.
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1. Toke the comero out of its cose qnd check if  it is e_mpty.lf the knurled knob (.|3)on top
turns freely in the direction of its orrow, there is no film in the comero.
2. Unlock the cqmero by tqueezing the two buttons(2!)r   together,swing cover to the right.
Turn the toke-up spool (25) with o finger until the slot foces you.Loy the cqmero foce
down in subduedlight.
3. Toke the film out of  its contoiner. About four inches of film will emerge from the
cortridgeond from most of this length the perforotio,n hos been cut owoy on one side. Pull
out obout two more inchesof  f ilm -   this port wil I be of the full 35 mm width, doubly
pe rf o ro ted.
Toke the cortridge in your left hond, the film tongue in your right hond, perforotionsdown.
Now insert the film tongue in the slot of the to-ke-
up spool (25)ond moke the tooth (26)on one side of
the slot engoge the first perforotion.Turn the toke-
up gpool one revolution with your finger, so most
of the tongue is tightly wound on it.
4. Stretchthe film over the film chonnel qnd drop
the cortridge in the mogozrneon the left (30).Push                         "tZglup, so _tho"tthe shoft     '(.|3)engoges the to itridg"
spool. Turn rewind knob         ;   little to focilitoJe
this. Turn the toke-up spool (25) o  little more to
tightenthe film.

5. The full width of the film s;hnorouruld nnoow coorv(/er thte twro ! spprocketwhe)ells (27).Mco kl e ssl uurell  thqt
sprocketson both sidesqre e)nslng(gogg€e()dl i n thhre) p )er( lrffo)r(rot'iornss, then c lose cover.
                                                  o ltern(otiveellY Slx lirimtegs.!s.TThh'is will6. Pressreleose button (14) o) nnr dc l r('o) p)id w i ndn  brb utttcronr ( :r))                               'ronbring fresh,unfoggedfilm inr ffr<r                                 nt o1) f tt he trtwco,  l et nsI rselgs.s. A llow t hre r e )w ind knloob)  ((1l3)r) ttio tu rn
f reely.This turning indicqtesth(holo t trhe fillrm istst mno'OVrirngr g lppr(olperly.
                                                                     D by pr)ressrng o n(r d turJfl,nrtil ng t o                       7. Set thrhee e 3Xl pcosuS UI ,re (Qrcouun'ntr'err l (221ll ).tro ( O
                          left or rirriqshtt. Thhee wi nrdo')w (t20r0)w li t l indicort e t h e numbe) f ( orf EXxp)orOSu res
                 mode.
                    Film speed setling : Turn the big centrol diol (19)until on index (6)
                    flonked by the letters ASA ond DIN oppeois.'Hold one of thd
                    serroted tongues (9) with o fingertip or noil ond turn the centrol
                        diol (19) until the index (6) points td the correct film speed either
                         in DIN (block scole)or ASA (green scole).
                You con determineyour film speed from the corion or doto sheet
                 coming with the film.
                You need never touch this setting ogoin os long os you use the                                                                           "to                some type or speed of film. Cheik o-ccosionolly  r,ik"  sure the
                     settinghos not been chonged unintentionolly.
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Every quolity-_com.erohos meons to regulote
the omount of light odmitted to the film, de-
pending on lighf conditionsond subiectco-
lour.
Theseconsistof o diophrqsm requlotinqthe
opening of the lens (oi lenies) o'id o shltter,
regylotjlg the time. of exposure. Normolly
eoch of these hove to be set by two seporote
diqls ond the best combinotioirmust 6e col-
culoted.





Exposure s.etting ouldoors  : For eosy odius-
ting, with the comero strop oround your neck,
swing boseploteup so thot comero'fqcesyou
u.plidedownwith the scoles you might n6ed
right s ide up.
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Look ot the three colour blocks (16)on the front -  they ore not iust
                   o stvlino feoture ! Decide which of the three motches best the
                     overoll iolours of your subiect,the frome with the light, with the
                 overoge or with the dork colours.
                               -  Typicol light, dork ond overoge subiectsore lisfed ot poge 23.
                               -  When in doubt, use centrol block.
              Now look ot the little window (17) in the block you hove chosen.
               When you turn ihe exposurediol (19),four different symbols will
                 oppeor In successron.


                                                   representing cloudy  but
           representingbright sun from                bright (sun behind cloud or
          behind the comero.                         bright overcost).        ru
           representinghozy sun (sun's                                                   repres?ntingshodow under            disc shows through hoze or                                               open sKy.             light clouds).       Zffim
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With bright sun from oside or slightlybe-
hind the subl-ect,rt"  th" o hozy sun ," symUol.
   For scenesin dull weother (if unovoido-
blg !) under open rky, use the oshodow, sym-
bol.
When you hqve plocer
the correct colour win
toke the picture.There
focus,lens-opening,sh
lue hove oll been set p
Everything  f rom qbou
shorp focus.
   Shoot only from 2 hours ofter sunriseun-
til 2 hours before sunset. Before or  qfter
colourswill be too red, too dork.
Holding the cqrnerq : Hold the comero f irmly
with both honds. Mqke sure your fingers do
not cover the lenses.In the viewf ind"er (281,
you will see o  bright, shorp line, froming
your subiect.Mqke sure the top ond bottom
lines of this frome ore perfectly horizontol.
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Never turn cl stereo comero on its side (verticol frome) or you will hove to view your
pictureswith the stereoscope(ond your heod !) on its side.
For reolly shorp pictures,steody yourself with feet oport, press comero qgoinst nose for
                                          extro steodinessond, -  with your forefinger
                                      hout iorring comero.
                                                                   It is o good ideo to proctisethis with unloo-
                                    ded comercrin front of o mirror.
                                      Agoin for shorpness,qvoid excessivemove-
                                   ment of your subiect or moke  it move to-
                                    words or owoy from you.





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Simply pressdown the ropid wind button (l).
T h i sw i ll :
   odvance the exqct o mount of  f ilm ;
   c ou n t t h e e xp o sUr€;
      f ree the shutter button, wh ich wos locked
to prevent double exposure.
The ropid wind button con best be pressed
with the thumb. For ropid sequenceshooting,
while looking through'theviewfinderwithoJi





lf the lotter hoppens,it will not pop up ond
o blind exposure (with the lenses covered)
must be mode to prevento double exposure.
Extrq originols : Before you wolk owoy from
your subiect,consider if you will wont extro
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picturesos spores,to give to friends etc. Remember,thot your film will not be copied or
< printed >, but thot the piciures in your stereoscopewill'be on your own origiriql film
(reversolprocessing).This is one reoson for their extreme reqlity. So, ihe beit  -  ond
cheopest-  woy to hove spore pictures is to moke them on the siot. To hove duplicotes
mode ofterwords,if  it cqn be done, will be more expensiveond leis sotisfying.

Using crn exposrrre-meler:To help iudging exposure,especiollyin unusuol conditions,on
exposure-meterwill be useful-    if you leorn to use it correctly.
Follow monufocturer'sinstructionsoccurotely.Reod the exposure'(.l8)  volue (oll modern meters
will hove this scole) ond set exposure scoie of comero      to this number by. turning
diol (19).

Flqsh pictures.: lndoor or whenever the light is insufficient(exposurediol will not turn
for enough, clockwise)chonge to flosh.
Any flosh gun will work with the View-Mostercomero. The modern, compoct ones will slip
into the occessoryshoe (8). Use blue floshbulbs,becouseyou hove doylight colour films.
Connectthe flosh coble to the <M>-outlet (11)on top of the comero.
lf you use electronicflosh, connect its coble to the < X r outlet (,|2).
Setlingthe cqmerq for flosh : Judge or meosurethe distonceof your subiectfrom the flosh
holder. Turn the exposure diol (19) until this distonce (in meteri - block scqle; or in feet
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greenscole)oppeorsin window (10) in front of the blue orrow (5).
Thot'soll I No ( guide numbersu, no colculotions,nothingelse to set.
Cqution: lf o red signol hos oppeore.d,Portly or w.ho.lly, in window (4),your subiectis too
for owoy from the fTosh.Turn'bockthe exposurediol until the red signoliust disoppeors.
At thot momentthe blue orrow will indicoteyour moxi-
mum f losh d istonce.
Non-stqndqrdflqsh :  lf most of your flosh picturescome
out too light, whoteverthe couse moy be (high-gfficiency
f losh unit, non-stondord bulbs, over-estimotingd istonces,
etc.)the correctionis gimple: Insteodof the blue orrow,
use'theindex (5o)on the'sideof the light colour block.
lf your flosh shotsore mostlytoo dork, use the index (5b)
on the side of the dqrk colour block, insteodof the blue
orrow. The blue orrow shouldgenerollybe used for ove-
roge bluefloshbulbs(7000- 9000lumenseconds,suchos the
PFT-B,XMI-8, 58, M5il, etc.)in overoge reflectors,ond for
medium-sizedelectronicflosh units (60-90Wottsecondr).
For smollerblue bulbs(AG1-B)ond smoll electronicunits,
use index (5b).For very strong f losh, use index (5o).
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Outdoor pictures with < fill-in flosh > : To brighten strong shodows (sun very high, on the
side, or even behind subiect)you con use n fill-in flosh o, like the experts -  but without
the usuol complicotedcolculotions.
-  Set exposurediol (.|9)to motch light conditions ond subiect colour os if the sun were
   normolly behind you.
-  Reod your flosh distonce ot the blue orrow (5)
-  Put your flosh unit of this distoncefrom the subiect ond toke your picture.





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 lf       keep.shooting until the very e.nd of the film, the rop.id wind button ('l) will meet   ,y.oY
 g fjgl-' resistonce,the rewind-knob will stop revolving ond ihe exposure-count'er(20) will ind.icoteo.wrong                              th.ereore cfroncesthot-the film moy b" domoged bnl  tfre                   ligyl".Also, losl tew ptcturesdouble exposed.
 It is therefore better to stop shooting ot the lost exposureos indicoted before :
            For the 36-exposurefilm : stop st 75
             For the 2O-exposurefilm  : stop ot 40
Rewinding : The film must be wound bock into the cortridge before opening the comero.
-  Pressrewind button (3).ond.keep-itpressedd.gwn*.hjlg you.rewind the film by turning
rewind-knob (.|3) in the.direction irt  iti orrow. You will febl the film tonqu" tnlro-iooiE
trom fhe toke-up spool (25),ofter which ihe rewind-knob turns more freel!.
-  O.p,encomero in subdued light ond focing down (so cortridge won't foll out), toke out
cortridge ond put it bock in contoiner.
Processingqnd mounting :, Send the film to processingstotion os odvised by the film
monufoctureror your deoler.
Indicote cleorly thot the film must remoin uncut.
After you receive ihe processedfilm, the piciures ore grouped like this:
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The two A-pictures together form o
                                                  stereo-poir,they must be cut out f rom
                                                 the f ilm ond insertedinto two oppo-
                                                       site pockets of  q  precision mode,
                                          empty View-Moster reel.


Next the two B-picturesore cut out ond mounted qnd so on.         ffi*'*ff
There ore three convenientwoys to do this :l. You con mount them yourself with the View-Mqsterfilm cutter  #;d
ond blonk, ( personol,  reels. lt is the fostest,cheopest ond most
sotisfyingwoy.
The film cutter comes with full, eosy-to-followinstructionsond will
soon poy for itself.
2. Your deoler will hove them mounted for you. You get bock oll
your usoble pictures,in the order they hove been token, seven per
reel.
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lf you wish to, you con chonge the picturesfrom reel to reel of will.
To do this scrotch-free,oll you need is o speciol poir of tweezers,
the View-Moster< Film-inserter>.



3.  lf none of the deolers in your oreo offer o mounting service,ofly
of them con give you the oddressof the centrol View-MosterMoun-
ting Servicein your country,to which you con send your film direct.
All thot remoinsto be done is to title eoch picture corefully in the
spoce provided on the blqnk reel ond to  file the reels in View-
Moster olbums or librory boxes.They will offer you qnd your friends
mony hours of unequoliedenioymeht.

ENJOYING YOUR VIEW.MASTERPICTURES:
There is o wide ronge of viewing ond proiecting enquipmentovoi-
l o b l e :
o) The fomous model E View-Moster stereoscopeof which there
ore millionsin use.A simple,but highly efficientinstrument.Mogni-
ficotion5 x.
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b) The View-Mosterstereoscopemodel F, with built-in light (bottery
or tronsformer)ond slightly lorger lensesond mognificotion.




c) The View-Moster stereoscopemodel D, designed especiolly for
personol View-Moster photogrophy. With  built-in light qnd high-
mognificotion (7 *), highly corrected,focusing viewing lenses.




d) The View-Moster trqnsformer-cord ollows you  to use house
current for stereoscopemodel F or D.

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9) The View-Moster < Deluxe > non-stereoproiector,    Wotts, 2,8
lens; proiectsup to four feet wide.


f) The View-Mqster < Stereo-motic> full-stereo proiector. You'll see
your pictures in full depth ond colour on the screen (ot rother
through the screen)by meons of polo rized light.


Finolly,don't forget thot you c_onsupplementyour show by odding
foscinoting reody-mode reels from the fomous View-Moster collec--
tion: Ploceswhere you hove been, ploceswhere you ore plonning
to go, ploceswhere you con only di'ejomof going t6 (Vpicol'of Vi"*l
Moster: /ou don't hove to buy them while you trovel   Your locol
deoler sellsthem oll). Then : Reelson world events-  odventures-
fo mous stories -  co rtoon chorocters etc.
Your own.personol reels will of course form the moin feoture ond
you con give them professionolquolity by reoding ond re-reoding
these instructionsco ref u lly.
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     EXPOSUREWITHOUT SCATES_ HOW  IT WORKS
     On poqe 8 we exploined thot the View-Moster Stereo Color Comero hos vorioble lens
      openin[s ond voribble shutter times like other quolity comeros -  but thot their setting is
      semi-outomotic.
     On the comero you will not even find scolesfor these two volues. For inquisitivbreoders,
     we mention them here :
      Lensopenings : 1:2,8- 4 - 5,6- 8 - 11 - 16 - 22, conlinuously.
      Shutteriimes : l/30 - 1/40 - 1/50 - 1/60 sec.,continuously.
      Times shorter thon l/60 sec. ore rorely needed ond greotly offect the efficiency of flqsh-
       bulbs, necessitotingcomplicoted flosh colculotions.
            lf you wont to know exoctly whot lens opening.ond shutter time you ore using of given
      exposurevolue settings- scole (18)- use this toble:
          sure Vqlue :          81/z   9   10   11
                           2,8   2,9   2,9  4    5,6    8   1 t   16   22  (f-number)
                            l/30  1/45 1/60 1/60 1/60  1/60 1/60 1/6A 1/60      (sec.)
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{s   yo,usee, you olwoys rlse the shortestshutter time (1/60sec.) unlessthe liqht is so low
 thot the        lensesreoch their full opening - only then does the comero shift itsElt lrom 1ZOO         'll30sec. to      sec.,groduolly.
With..your comero,-thereis no other reoson to use these longer shutter times - such os
 insufficientdepth-of-focus,see next tip.'to
Now you           .k.ng*.why you only hove    feed informotion obout light conditions to the
comero, which then tokes core of the ideql settingsoll by itself I
DEPTHOF FOCUS:
Moybe you wonder why nowhere in this monuol ore ony meosuresmentioned for keeping
your subiect in shorp f6cus.
The reoson is thot h.ere,ioo, the comero lorgely iokes core of  itself. The extreme short
focol length.ofyour lenses(20 mm) mokes focrisingunnecessotvonJ .quoront""sthot und".
overo.geto.king conditions everything from oboutlive  feet (1,50mete-rs)is perfectly shorp.
rv,e1 t{ gb1ec.l;closer thon this distonce con be pictured shorp (see toble below) it is uh-
odv.tsoble,wifh ony stereo-comeroof stondord lens-seporoti6n'(obout21/z inches or 55
mm) to oppro.ochony subiect closer thon four feet. Eye stroin in ui"*ing  l"rp"iiotty insiereo projection)roy  result.
As old honds in photogrophy know, the depth-of-focusdepends on the lens openinq
setting.So, if.you wont lo kn6w the point ot which shorp foius storts qt vorious;;il;E
settings,use this toble :
ExposureVolue                                                                           s c o l e
                  2,10 2,10  l,g0  1,50 1,20 0,90 0,65 0,50        meterShorp focus from                   7            6 5 4 3 2 1 1 / z                                 feet
On the lost poge you will find this < depth-of-focus> toble combined with the previous
< opening ond time > toble. It con be cut out ond toped inside the comero cose, for eosy
reference.
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