Voigtlander Vito Automatic User manual

Distqnce scqle                           Film speed scqle for.ASA rotings
   with milled setting ring                 with milled setting rrng
   Film speed scale for .DlN rotings       t0  Threqded socket   with milled setting rrng                   for coble releose or self-timer
   Locking key
   for odiustment of the film                 tt  Flqsh socket
   speed setting ring                                                  12  Aperlure scole
                                                                                                  1/so second4  Bqck lock                                 for flosh shols ot
5  Control ring
                                                  !                    I3   B-setting   set to "AUTO"                                            for long time exposures ol full
6  Releose                                              o perture
7  Honeycomb window
   of exposure meter cell                   t4  Tripod bush
   Film type indicotor                       t5  Film counter
   in rewind knob                           with milled setting button

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l6  Viewfinder eyepiece                      23  Tcke-up spool
                                            with hbok for ottoching the filml7  Film trock                                    leoder
18 Cossette chomber                         24  Shoft of rewind knob,
19 Rewind knob,                          must engoge the cossette spool
          f ully extended                            25  Rewind knob,
20 Film reversing lever                     pushed into comero body
2l  Ropid winding lever                     26  Sprocket of tronsport shofl,    for tensioning the shutter               must engoge the film perforotions
   ond odvoncing the film                                               27  Film leoder
22 Film trqnsport shofl                       fixed to toke-up spool

When reoding this
booklet open up the
four folded poges to the
fop ond bottom. The
cleorly lobelled illustro-
tions will show you
exoctly whot is whot.
The reference numbers
occur in brockets (  )
throughout the text.

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          . . . ond Now Shoot
     The confrol ring (5) must be set to "AUTO". Then
        iust fook fhrough the finder ond wotch the exposure
      indicotor obove the brilliont frqme: if the field
       is "GREEN", press the releqse to toke the picture.     Go oheod - shool

     Note: lf fhe field turns portly "RED", the ovoiloble
       light is no longer odequote for o correctly exposed
     shot. However, os the releose is deliberotely left
     unblocked, yoU ore still free to decide whether you            Exposure
    Wont to toke o picture ofter oll ond risk o certoin           iust possible
     degree of underexposure.  lf the field is completely
      RED", no occeptoble picture is possible.
     To loke o picture the shutter must olwoys be iensioned. so
       pull. the ropid winding lever (21) fully to rhe righr. This
      ot lhe some iime odvonces the film ond the film counter.
                                                                            Exposure                  E          www.butkus.us    -3-                                              no longer possible

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www.butkus.usThe Brilliont Frome   in the viewfinder cleorly ond
                           occurotefy outlines everything you
                       get on the film. The field within
                    the bright ref lected   f rome olso
                      shows the subiect in noturol size,
                    so thqt you con keep both eyes
                       open while viewing. Thus you hove
                o cleor view q.lso over the sur-
                         roundings of the subiect.

                     The doi indicotes the centre of the
                               subiect field. With neor views ot obout
                                31/z feet the limits of the field of view
                         ore disploced downwords or sidewoys,
                              occord'lng to whether you hold the
                       comero horizontolly or upright. lt  is
                       shown by the two short lines on the
                                    brilliont imoge frqme.
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    Now thot you know how beoutif ully
      eosy picture toking is with the "VITO
       outomotic", vy'e sholl show you how to                .
 '      iood ond unlood the film.
        Further, you con olso reod more obout -       the scope of your comero ond obout    :
 .      occessories ovoiloble for  it.

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Inserling lhe Cosselle
 To open the comero.^bock, press together both locking coiches (4). Then push
 the reversing lever (20) to the left. This mokes the t"*ind knob'(i9) iump up; pull it out os for os it will go see illustrotion lll.
Now push the film leoder into the slot of the toke-up spool so thot o
perforotion hole engoges the hook (27). Pull the film cossette ocross the film
trock (17), put it into the cossette chomber (18) ond fully push bock the
rewind.knob (25) - see illustrotion lV. The shoft of the rewind knob (24) mustcorrectly engoge the film cossette.
Now lurn the toke-up spool by its lower milled ring until both perforqted
edges of the film engoge the Jprocket of the tronspJn shqft (22).'Close rhecomero.
   The comero con be looded wiih oll minioture films on the morket. Stondord dovlioht
    cossettes of. perforoted 35 mm film usuolly yield 36 or 20           Z+  g? fi;'-    in block-ond-white or colour film.                         "*posJt"i    "
   The cossettes ore light-tight. All the some, do noi leove them oround in stronc
    lightond olwoys-.looil or rlnlood the comero'in the itroae - eu"n th;;[;Jo;'oi';;;,   own body is sufficient.

www.butkus.us                     Setting the Film Counfer
                        Turn the milled button (15) until the mork | (o) -
                            for o 36-exposure cossette - or the mork O (c) -
                                                                          red                         for o 20-exposure coss'ette -  is opposite the                        dot. Then olternotely work the ropid winding
                        lever ond the releose until the film counter
                           indicotes No. 36 (b) or 20 (d) respectively.
                        The film counter now outomoticolly shows the number
                           of fromes still ovoiloble every time you odvonce the
                               film. li thus runs bockwords towords No. l.            ,
                The Film Type Indicotor (S)
                                   is only intended os o memory oid to remind you of the
                          type of film you hove looded. lt does not offect the                             exposure J in ony woy. Set the film indicotor before
                             looding the film (with ihe rewind knob fully extended)
                         by turning the disc os follows:
                              (Q,    :  Block-and-white film
                                                          :  Doylight lype colour film                                     *
                                                           Artificiol lighr type colour film                   -8-    O   :
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Shutter Speeds
The comero works ot o fixed shutter  speed  qt every film speed setting:
A5A/DIN               \2t12        25lrs         50/r8     t00/21    204t24
                                                                               1,1250         l/500 secondcorresponds to      I/30        1160     1n25
With the control ring set to "AUTO" you therefore olwoys shoot ot the shutter speedcorresponding to the-ASA or DIN speed of your film. lntermediote ASA or DiN settings
yield intermediote shutter speeds.
Keep in mind thot fixed relotionship between the shutter s-peed ond.film speed. setting,
esp6ciolly when you wont to toke"fost moving sublects (for exomple sports shots). In
such coses it is therefore best to use o fcst film.
Time exposures. When you set the control
ring to the green letter B (13), the^outomo-     O-  +S Ora
                                                                                '|r 16 22ll'n'?f,T"',."j,t"'i:I ';n3'':t3t13io;l'"1,0'3ii  ts z.B + 5.6 Bremo rns open os long os you keep the               Ireleose depressed. The Jens lh"en qlwgys   Aworks ot its f-u-!]*"gp.Sr|y"t9.  Lf.{?:.9L.
For such lon! tirne exposures you must mount the comero on o firm support (tripod,
toble, etc.) o-nd expos6 with ccible releose, this screws inlo the threoded socket below
ihe releuse.
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                          Flosh Shofs
                          ore not only suitoble for evenings of home ond for
                          ie                reolly live shots ond porties ond other festive occosions,
                             but olso provide oifroclive sunlight effects with outdoor
                                  portroits on dull doys. When shooting ogoinst the light,
                                           fill-in flosh con olso illuminote deep shodows.
                                 For flosh shots turn the control ring to the red flosh ronge  ('12).
                                This ogoin disengoges the outomqtic control system, but ihe
                                   shutter is now set to 1/:ro second with ony of the red operture
                                     figures. This is suitoble for synchronisin! oll flosh bulbs ond
                                      electronic flosh units on the morket.
                           Mount the flosh gun in lhe occessory shoe on the top of the
                                  comercr ond plug the flosh coble from the gun into the socket
                                                                 (1 l). The  f losh bulb pocking usuolly gives exposure doto for
                               the correcl operture in the forrn of so-colled guide numbers.
                           The correct operiure is obtained by dividing lhe oppropriote
                             guide number by the distonce from the flosh to the subiect.
                                     In brief : operlure :  guide number : dislonce.
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   Useful ond Hcndy Accessories
o The lens hood not only culs out stroy side light (which con give rise to
    reflections ond reduced brillionce) but olso protects your precious lens
   ogoinst roin ond snow.
o  Noturolly you con olso use filiers with your "VITO outomoiic". A well-groded
    selection of Voigtldnder filters is ovoiloble for block-ond-white ond colour
         f ilms.
o   lf you find estimoting distonces difficult, the occessory Voigtlcinder ronge-
   finder does the iob for you.
o  Voigtlcinder olso moke o flosh gun. With this you con toke foscinoting shots
    indoors, in dull light, ond even ot dusk. The flosh gun provides oll the light
   you need for ihe exposure ond helps you copture live ond noturol scenes.
o Our speciol leoflet, "The Complete Art of Picture Shooting", gives you
   detoiled informotion on oll comero occessories. Your photo deoler will be
   glod to reserve o ,copy for you.
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Core of fhe Ccmero ond Lens
                                                                                      lorgelyo       Srccessful results with, ond long life of, your voluoble comero       depend on proper core ond correcf operotion.
       So olwoys hondle the comero gently ond never
       use force.
*        Prolect the comero ogoinst hord knocks, ond do        not drop it. When you ore trovelling by cor, do
        not keep the comero in the glove comportment.
          ln the long run the vibrotion there moy horm the
         photo-electric exposure meter.
       Cleon the lens only with o soft, fluffless cloth.
           First corefully dust off coorse porticles of grit (Or
       sond ot the seo side) with o soft soble brush. Fingermorks ond other troces
        of greose on the lens surfoce or the finder window con be removed with o
        piece of cotton wool moisiened with pure olcohol or ether.

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This comero -  like other Voigtlcinderproducts  is occomponied by o
GUARANTEE CERTIFICATE. Pleose
moke sure thot your photo deoler fills
in ond stomps the certif icote when
you buy the comero. Then you con be
sure of free repoir ond servicing ot
our works or through our ogents in the
cqse of ony defect orising within the
guoronfee period loid down by us (see
ihe" guorontee certificote).
However, keep this guorcrntee certifi-
cote even ofter the expiry of the
guoroniee period. For if you should
ever lose your comero, the seriol
number of the comero ond lens noted
in the certificote moy help you to-
words recovery.