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Zeiss Ikon Contaflex Super B User manual
User manual for Zeiss Ikon Contaflex Super B. 12 pages in English. Read the original PDF, download or print a copy without registration.
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- Zeiss Ikon
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- Zeiss Ikon Contaflex Super B
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- User manual
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- English
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- 12
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- Film cameras
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yourownpleasureandenioyment ;_1For
in this fine photogrophic insfru- 24 Setting mork for dull weother/bocklight correclor
f ',. menf, we urge you to reod these 25 Coupling dog for engoging the film cossette
nstructions thoroughly ond proc- 26 Film-cqssetfe chomber (with boffle, which must be
, I tice hondling your new comero be- removed when using lhe interchongeoblefilm bock)
.1'! fore looding your first film. Fold 2? Seiling lever for deloyed-cction releose (V) ond X
out the inner flops so thot os you flosh synchronizotion; used in coniunction with
reod you con eosily see eoch con- locking key 34
trol ond ,eoch reference number. 28 Grip for setting operture.ond flosh guide-numbers
Proctice every operotion until you in coniunction with key 2
o r e f o m i l i o r w i t h i t s o l h o t l o t e r o n 29 Seiling mqrk for rewinding
you con operole the comero with- 30 Comero bqck cotches
out difficulty. Consull your photo- 31 Tripod bushing
32 Setting mork (red stroke) for flosh guide-numbers
w h e n u s i n g Z E I S SP R O - T E S S A3 B5 m m w i d e - o n g l el e n s
33 Flqsh guide-number scole for ZEISS PRO-TESSAR
3 5 m m l e n s
3tl Locking key for setting lever 27
35 Toothed sprockel wheels for engoging the film
oerforotions
36 Toke-up spool with slot ond lug for securing the
f i l m l e o d e r l o n g u e
37 Viewfinder eyepiece
BB Eyelers for neckstrop
39 Accessory shoe
grophic deoler on ony photogro-
phic problems; the Photo Advisory
Service (Fotoberotung) of ZETSS
IKON AG., 7000 Stuttgort, Postfoch
540,will olso be hoppy to supply od-Ss vice ond informoiion free of chorge.View original page 3Page 4 · Read text
obove the oppropriote figure on the film 23 on ring Loadingandunloading 21 : 20. speed scole
Removing the camera back
Fold both cotches30 upwords ond turn them in opposite Setting the frame counter and checking the film advance
directions. Then tqke off cqmero bock. Before looding (Fig. 2)
the f ilm, tension the comero by swinging the ropid-wind Alwoys set the white mork on the block knurled ring
lever 12 until it slops. of the ropid-wind lever 12 to the number of exposures
on your film, plus lhree. Use the red morks for 20:
Loadingthe film ond 36-exposurefilm cossettes.Use l5 for 12-exposure
Never lood film in direct sunlight. Shode the film with r o l l s .
your body if necessory. Remove the toke-up spool 36
ond insert the beginning of the film leoder tongue into Fold .out the rewind cronk 8 ond turn it corefully in the
the slot; hook the lug into the 2nd or 3rd perforotion d irection of the orrow until o slight resistonce is felt.
hole. Wind the film twice oround the spool qnd hold it The film will then be wound tightly in the cossette.
in position. Insert the film spool ond the cossette into Finolly, olternotely press releose knob l4 ond operote
the comero, so thot the perforotions engoge with the ropid-wind lever'12 twice, so thot the white mork indi-
toothed sprocket wheels 35 on either side of the film.
Ploce the comero bock in position from obove, so thot
obout holf the width of the film is still visible.Then slide
the bock right home ond lock it. Fold flot cotches30.
lmportant: set the film speed (Fig. I )
indicoted onKNote the DIN or ASA index respectively
the film corton.
Press the locking cotch in the direction of the orrow
until it stops (see illustrotion)ond set the setting mork
cotes the octuol number of exposures on your film.
Note thot the rewind cronk rototes of its own occord in
the opposite direction to thqt indicotedby the orrow: this
ollows you to check thot the film is being odvonced
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The frome counter olwoys shows the number of fr:omes
still to:be exposed. After the lost exposure (when the
counter indicotes I ), the ropid-wind lever l2 will ceose
fo operote or o distinct resistoncewill be felt holf-woy
jth rough o stroke. The f ilm must then be rewou nd (see
next poge) -t* RA,u.hCuAdr
Set the film-type reminder disc l0 by meons of knob 9. /*--
T h i s d i s c o c t s s o l e l y o s o n o i d t o r e m i n d y o u w h o t ' -
t y p e o f f i | m i s i n y o u r c o m e r o . T h e s y m b o l s o n t h e f i | m .
type reminder disc signify:
Inf ro-red fi lm
: Color reversol f i l m
(tungsten type) 3 4
: Color reversol f i l m Focusingwith split-imoge Focusingwith ground-gloss
(flosh type) ronge finder n n g
: Color negotive f i l m
Takingpictures
: Color reversol f i l m
(doylisht type) Setting the distance (Focusing) (Fiss. 3 ond 4)
Operote the ropid-wind lever so thot the shutter is =: Block-ond-whitefilm tensioned. Hold the comero up to your eye ond tu;n
the finger-grips 5 until the split-imoge segmentsvisible
in the center of the viewfinder field line up occurotely;
After the lost exposure, lift the left-hond bock-locking for subiects with no cleorly-defined lines, odiust the 'R'.cotch 30 ond set it to focus until the imoge oppeors shorp within the ground-
Extend the rewind cronk 8 ond turn it in the direction of gloss ring. The distonce focused upon is then indicoted .|5.the orrow until o chonge in resistonceis felt (indicoting on scole 4 by the setting mork
the film coming f ree from the toke-up spool). Now open
both bock-locking cotches, pull off the comero bock Aperture and depth of field (Fig. 5)
o nd remove the f ilm cossette. Every photogrophic lens will form o shorp imoge of
Alwoys keep the toke-up spool ond the film trock per- obiects within o limited distonce in front of ond behind
fectly cleon. the obiect focused upon. This "depth of field" becomes
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greoter the more the lens is stopped down (lorger ft The correct shutter speed depends on the movement ofstop numbers); its extent (ot individuol operture stops) the subiect. The fqster the subiect is moving, the briefer .|5.is shown on the depth-of-field scole must be the exposure time. The figures on the scole l8
Exomple (seefig. 5) : Distonce setting 20 ft signify froctions of seconds (50 is 1160second, 125 is
Depth of f ield ot f/8: 11125second, etc.). * 4\ --releoseAt "8" , the shutter remoins open for q:-lzujs the,7( from l0 ft to oo t knob 14 remoins depressed. ( \
Remember: \__-
Delayed-actionexposures Lorge operture (f/2.8) - smqll depth of field First tension shutterwith rqpid-wind lever 12, then move Smqll operture (Il22l - mqximum depth of field the setting lever 27 to "V" . Approximotely l0 secondsFor exocting photogrophic work, occurote depth of field ofter operoting the releose, the shutter will open ondvolues will be found in the toble on the reor cover ftop. close outomoticolly. The lever 27 will then return to "X".
Time exposures of the "B" setting connot be mode withSetting the shutter speed (Fig. 6) 1 t I the deloyed-oction releose
To odiust the shutter speed, turn ring l B by meons of
the two finger grips to set the desired shutter-speed Using filters
volue opposite the setting mork 17. The speed selected Most filters necessitote on increose in exposure. This
will olso be visible in the bottom right corner of the filter-foctor is indicoted on the mount of the filter (2x,
viewfinder. 4 x, etc.). Set this foctor on the filter corrector 22, obove
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Releasing the shutter
Hold the CONTAFLEXsuper B os shown on the front
cover-flop of this instruction monuol. To toke o picture,
press the releose knob 14 softly ond smoothly down-
words - never ierkily. At the moment of exposure the
viewfinder imoge will block out; it will reoppeor os soon
os the ropid-wind lever 12 is tensioned. For shutter
speeds slower thon rlsosecond the comero should be
ploced on o tripod.
The exposure meter
is colibroted ogoinst o stondord ond will ensure the
correct exposure under normol conditions. Open lond- ticolly to the sun symbol when it is releosed.The figure
scopes with lorge oreos of sky, ond bocklit pictures in 2 within the cloud symbol indicotes thot the dull weother
porticulor moy be incorrectly exposed when the expo- corrector corresponds to o filter-foctor correction of
sure meter is used os described obove,since the brighter 2x, ond it moy olso be used for this purpose. lf the
sky tones or the sun shining directly into the meter operture requires less thon one full f/stop correction,
will folsify the reoding. In such situotions the normolly- then the ring need only be turned by o corresponding-
determined exposure should be modified by increosing l y s m o l l e r o m o u n t .
the lens operture by one f/stop. This correction is olso Mqnuql operotion
necessoryfor pictures of low-controst subiects on color Disengagingthe auto-control (Fig. 10) reversot fitm, e.g. exposures on cloudy doys. For this
reoson o dull weqther/bocklight corrector is incorpor- { Depress key 2 qnd of the some time turn the operture scole 16 (morked "monuell") to the setting mork 17 by oted in the comero.K
Dull weatherlBacklight corrector (Fig. 9)
With the thumb on your left hond, turn ring 23 to bring
the cloud symbol over the setting mork 24. Hold it i^n
this position while pressing the releose knob. The result
of the correction is shown by the deflection of the
pointer on the operture scoles, both in the viewfinder
ond on top of the comero. Both will register one f/stop
lorger operture. The ring 23 will spring bock outomo'
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meons of grip 28. By setting fhe shutter to "monuell" it
is possible to select the shutter-speed ond operture
settingsoccording to choice: either independently of the jmeter exposure or in occordonce with its reodings.
In this woy the exposure con be corrected - prelerobly
by vorying the operture setting in either direction - to
o greoter extent thon con be ochieved with the dult
weother/bocklight corrector.
Exomple:
Close-up reodings with high brightness-controsts.Hold
the comero (with the outo-control engoged) close up to
the subiect whilst toking core not to cost o shodow upon
it. Reod off the operture indicoted (here the externol floshbulb for the sped of the film you ore using. This
meter window wil I prove most usefu t) o nd set it by will be given on the floshbulb corton or in the instruc-
meons of the operture setting ring morked "monuell,,. tions for the flosh unit.
Then toke V the picture from the desired position. olwoys be set rc tokins pic- for F When the comero is set to o monuolly-selected operture, qs flosh, qnd for use with flqshbulbs
the exposure meter is disconnected (the pointer remoins
within the red sector). This is o built-in precoution to
ovoid the possibility of erroneous reodings. So long os depress locking key
the pointer is visible within the green sector, you con be
certoin thot the outomotic exposure control is in opero- ("V"settins)will tion. R
Takingpicture$by flash (Fig.I I ) Automaticflash exposures(Fig.12)
The zElss lKoN lKoBLlrz 5 "cordless" floshgun con be The outomotic flosh-exposure control operotes of oll
plugged d irectly into the f losh contoct 6. other types X shutter-speedsettings.For normol use with both flosh-X of flosh units should either be slipped into the occessory bulbs ond electronic flosh, the synchronizotionshould
shoe (39)or ottoched to the tripod bushing 3l by meons be set to i.X''l' \r' /
of o brocket. Plug the synchro-contoctof the end of the There is no limitotion on the choice of shutter speed
coble ottoched to the flosh unit into the flosh contoct 5. when using electronic flosh, ond the speed selected hos
Determinethe correct guide number of the flosh unit or no influenceon the guide number to be set.
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