Weimar Lux User manual

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Short inslructions for omqieurs who
ore  in o hurry.
Remove protective cover
l. Set senstivity of  film (set to DIN
  number of film)
2. Direct cellulor vrindow towords the
  subiect
3. Adiust pointer until it coincides(by
   turning the knurled disc)
4. Reod of exposure time below the
  diophrogm.

Your Weimorlux provided with   oll
feotures of on up-to-dote exposure
meter will never disoppoint you ond
will invoriobly help you to toke per-
flectly exposed pictures, if you ob-
serve the following instructions!

Remove the protective cover by hold-
ing the instrument between thumb
ond index finger of your right hond
ond by slightly tilting the protective
cover upwords with the inscriptionon
too. This done the cover con be re-

odily pulled off. The cover will not                         'bxtensivebreok even in the cose of
bending (up to 60").

Settingthe film speed
Retoin geor rim (4) ond turn block
disc by meons of the smoll knob ('l),
untif number 1 (2) is locqted obove
the DIN number (3) which is morked
en the_pockogeof the filrn you use.
The ASA degrees shown obove the
DIN figures o-reonly used in Western
countries.
For eoch meosuremenflhe geor rim
is turned until the  troiling- pointer,
(5)coincideswith the meosuiingpoin-
ter (6).
There,bythe meosuredresultris fixed.

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In o,dditionto the indicotion of the                                'onlyf ilm speed the Weimorlux hos
two other scoles,thot ore importonf:
   f-stop (7) ond exposuretime (8)

Bolh ore orronged beneoth the red
 scole section.
Ong exposure.time  is ossigned to eoch       ltop ond vice verso. You  ol_
woys hove o choice ,between vorious
exposure time - f-stop combinotions.
Exomple:   f-stop   exposure time
                        ll       1160 s
             8       11125s
              5,6            I /250 s
             4               Ii 500s
Exomple:   11         l/30 s
             8       1160 s
              5,6      l/125s
             4                I /250 s
The exomples overleof indicote such
exposure time - f-stop combinotions
which ore most fre{uently  ,rla;  in
sunshine. Choose o  short exposure
        your subjec.tmoves gVi.klil:r*   _ifIn the cose of subjects requiring                             -usebhigh depth of definition olwoys
o smoll f-stop.

The white numbers on the exposure
time scole ore froctions of a second
(e.g. 125:  11125s), the red ones are
seconds.
The scole ronges f rom 111000s  to
60 seconds.
lf the exposuretimes ore in between
the f-numbers, the respective inter-
mediote volue is to be set when tok-
ing colour photogrophs(e.g. ,between
5,6 ond 8). When toking block-ond-
white. pictures you moy employ the
nexf higher stop.

   ond now some good tips for the
proper hondling of your Weimorlux.

Subiect meosurement
Meosurementof the exposure time
requiredfor normol subjectsis gene-
rolly corried out like this: From the
stondpoint bf the comero the Wei-
morlux is directed with  its cellulor
window towords the subiect. In the
cose of subjects with striking con-

trosts in. brightness(e. g. persons in
      light clothesin front bf ?  ilork bqck-
    ground or dork persons in front  of
     o bright bockgrouhd) one moves close
         to the subiect {30 to 50 cm), tok-     .up
     ing core thot one's own bodv' does
     not bost o shodow on the subiect.
     Th,isclose-upmeosurementyields iery,     relioble volues.[,
,,   Light meosuremenl
        th-iscose not. only the light reflec-i     lnI    ted from the subjeci,but oii the liqht
        f olling on the slbidct  is m"orrrEd.
  \n thts meosurementis corried out from    'l    the stondpoint of the su,biectwith the
    ; Weimorlux being horizohtolly'of poin-    i  ted towo_rdsthe stondpoint    the
 .$ comero. Prior to meosurement, the
    \ white incident light ottochment (oc-
 DDcommodoteg.in_theprotective cover)
     is to ploced before the ceilulor win-
    clow.
      It is insertedwith its lons bridqe into
    the lower slot in front oF the iellutor
   window ond simply tilted until it en-
   goges.

Normolly the incident light ongle of
   the Weimorlux is limited (55"); how-
   ever by meons of the incident light
   ottochment it is extended to opprox.
    I80".

      lf for some reoson or other you con-
   not get os close to the subject os is
   necessoryyou better try to find some
   other locotion which receives equol
    light from the some direction qs the
   subiectyou intend to toke o picture
    of.

         still o few more tips
  The ronge of exposuretimes of your )   Weimorlux is the some os con be
   . - t   found on most other modern expo-
 J sure meters.Y-}-
  \   lf, however,you own o comero which
                  ronge of exposurec) hos still the older.li50,   times (l/100,    1125,l/10, 1 5),then
   pleose use the smoll points visible
   below the geor rim for setting.

lf o filter is ottoched before the lens,
the exposuretime is to be prolonged.
Mony o time this is not done, how-
ever.
Therefore,prior to toking o meosure-
ment olwoys set the filter fqctor (2,
3,4 dependingon the kind of filter
used) by turning the respectivenum-
ber (2) over the film speed (3) insteod
of numberl.

The "Weimorlux" is olso yery wef l
suited f or use in coniunctionwith o
substondordfilm comero.
Meosurementis os usuol,only reoding-
oft  is slightly different. Below the
exposure limes (8) there ore  four
numbers (9): 61, 21, 16 ond  I indicot-
ing the number of pictures,which de-
pending on the respective setting is
being exposed in the comero eoch
second. They ore olso termed "run-
ning speeds". The normol running
spedd is 16. The f-stop indicoted by
the line obove number 16 you set on

yovr cornero.The two short lines be-
tween .64qnd 24 signify the "running
speeds" 48 ond 32.-
In the lower port of the "Weimorlux"
there is still onother scole (10) with
the numbersI to I8. The numbersore
light volues.They ore reod off oppo-
site the triongulormork (ll). They ore
of procticol iirportonce ."ti  f";;";;
f ew comeros on the world morket,
which ore equipped with light volue
shutters.
Your Weimorluxhos ,beenexoctty,qd-
iusted of our works.  lf, in spife of
thot,.it should hoppen thot th-epoin-
ter (6) is no longer on the left-hond
white zero point (12)when the cellu-
lor window is closed, then turn the
screw visible on the reor of the in-
strumentby meons of o screw-driver,
until the bointer exoctly coincides
with the centre of the point.
Our finol odvice
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the storf then test your Weimorlux in
coniunctionwith o comero ond o co-
lour reversolfilm with o speed of soy                                     'film16 DfN. In the best woy insert o
with 20 exposures,select 4 differe,nt
subiectsin bright sunshineond toke
5 picturesof eoch.The first picture of
eoch series is token with such f-
stop indicqtedby your Weimorlux ot
1 1125s. The secohdone is token with
 I 12 f-stop less, the third with o  full
f-stop less,the fourth with l/2 f-stop
more, ond the fifth with o full f-stop
more.

After developmentof the film you
cqn eosily see, which of the pictures
of the four series ore properly ex-
posed. lf  it  is the first one in eoih
seriesyou leove the film speed set-
ting ot 16 DlN. lf onother picture is
properly exposed you chonge the
setting occording to  the following
toble:
2nd picture properly exposed,
     film speedbetweenlT ond l8 DIN

3rd picture properly exposed,
     film speedto l9 DIN
1th picture properly exposedI
     film speedbetween 1.1ond l5 DIN
5th picture properly exposed,
    film speedto l3 DIN
ond from now on you will olwoys
toke home properly exposed pictures.

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