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Zeiss Ikon Contaflex Prima User manual
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Loadingandunloadingthe camera forthe thecoresfeedingof theondspools.the loke-upNow windmechonismfhe filmengogeon to
0pening the toke-up spool (by rototing the loller monuolly
The CONTAFLEXprimo should be held in the left with the right hond until the perforotions of the
hond, with the lens pointing downwords os shown film engoge the leeth of the tronsport sprocket on
in fig. l. The locking keys (16 ond 19) ot lhe bose both sides.Whilst holding the film in contoct with
of fhe comero should be folded outwords with the the sprocket with the thumb of the left hond (fig.
right hond ond turned in the oppropriote direction. 4) so thot the teeth remoin engoged with the
Now the bock is unlocked ond con be removed perforotions,lhe comero bock should be reploced
(fis. 2). by lowering it into the grooves of the comero
from obove (fiS. 5). Then slide it bock into the
comero body. Turn the locking keys on the bose
Loading in the opposite directions ond fold lhem up. The
To lood lhe comero toke o stondord commerciol keys con be fold only when the bock is properly
cortridge of minioture film, for 20 or 36 exposures. i n p o s i l i o n .
First secure the beginning of the film in the lorger
slot of the toke-up spool by hooking one perfo-
r o t i o n h o l e o v e r l h e s m o l l l u g , w h i c h w i l l h o l d i t
in ploce. We leove it to you whether to hold the
cortridge in your hond, os shown in fig. 3, or
ploce it immediotely in the comero. The corfridge
ond fhe toke-up spool should then be inserted
into the two film chombersso thot the two prongs
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Fig' 7' 8
block-ond-whitefilm to the comero ot ony time
Cassette ond vice verso.
T h e C O N T A F L E Xp r i m o c o n o l s o b e u s e d w i t h o
cosselfe (fiS. 6). The film con be wound from o Unloading
commerciol cortridge inlo o cosselle, f rom o Exposed films in stondord commerciol cortridges
cossetteinlo onother cossetteor from o corlridge hove to be rewound into their cortridges ofter ex-
or cossetteon lhe normol foke-up spool wilhout posure. For this purpose one of the locking keys
ony shell. When using cossettesthe type of film on lhe comero bock (morked "R") must be lifted
con be chonged of ony time, even in brood doy- ond iurned so thot its bor points to the "R" (fig.7).
light. This connof be done, however, when you Fold out the counlersunk cronk (fig. 8) from the
use one cossette (or cortridge) on the feeding rewind knob ond turn it in the direction of the
side only ond fronsporl the exposed film lo on orrow until the film is completely rewound into
open toke-up spool. With two cossettesor one the feed corfridge. The end of this operotion con
cosselte(on the toke-up side) ond o cortridge (on be iudged by the resisionce felt when fhe film
finolly leoves lhe toke-up spool. After removing the feeding side), you con open ihe bock of the the bock, the cortridge con be removed. Dust or comero ofter ony number of exposures on one porlicles of film inside lhe comero should be type of film (soy block-ond-whitefilm). To prolect removed of once. the lost exposures,you should f urlher expose lwo
blonks ond only then open the comero. When you Ready for Action
lurn the locking key to open the comero you olso After looding your CONTAFLEX primo is not close the cosseflesoulomoticolly. When you now quite reody for immediote oction, since o few l o o d t h e c o m e r o w i t h o c o l o u r f i l m o n d w i n d i t
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(l) so os to wind the fogged leoder film on to
the toke-up spool, owoy from the film gofe.
As the film is odvonced by operoting fhe wind
lever, lhe rewind knob (6) should rolale in the
opposite direclion. This indicotes thot the film is
being odvonced ProPerlY.
When using bulk film (see "Cossettes") or 20-Fis.9 exposure cortridges, the turns of the film moy
portiolly unwind; in this cose the rewind knob
will not rotole when the first fromes ore odvonc-
After looding the comero the film speed must be ed. In this cose unfold the smoll cronk (counter-
set on the outomotic exposure control of the sunk into the rewind knob) ond turn it in the
C O N T A F L E Xp r i m o . direction of the orrow until o distinct resistonceis
f e l t ( f i g . 8 ) . T h i s i s o l s o o r e l i o b l e i n d i c o f i o n For lhis purpose the lever (.|8)is moved until the whether lhere is ony film of oll in the comero. speed figure of the film in use is opposite the When the ropid wind lever is now operoted once triongle selting mork (fig. 17).When using colour ogoin the first film-frome will be reody for ex- fllters see poge 21. posure. The frome counier will indicote the entire
In order to check the number of fromes ovoiloble lood, either 36 or 20 fromes.
the CONTAFLEXprimo hos o frome counter. Turn
the block ring of this frome counter in the direc-
tion of the orrow until the white mork is opposite Focusing
one of the red morks on the counting disc. lf you When you sight your firsf subiect through the
hove o cortridge for 36 exposures in the comero viewfinder you will see in the centre of the finder
the red mork belween I ond 35 must be chosen; imoge o circulor oreo which is divided into two
with o 20 exposure cortridge set the white mork to holves. The circulor oreo is surrounded by o
the red mork on 23 (fig. 9). The ropid wind lever finely-ground ring. These two indicolors, o splil-
(3) should be swung oround with your right rrrumb imoge rongefinder ond o finely-ground focusing
until it bufts hord ogoinst the stop. Do this twice, ring, enoble you to focus occurotely ond to hove
but ofter eoch movement of the ropid wind lever the correct distonce setting under constont con-
10 releose ihe shutter by depressingthe releoseknob trol.
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Split-image rangefinder
ln most cosesfocusing will be performed by using
lhe split-imoge rongefinder.lf you sight on obiect
through the viewfinder ond operote the focusing
device (.l3,fig. l0), you will observe thot the two
imoges in fhe inner circle, seporoted from eoch
o t h e r b y o t h i n l i n e , m o v e i n o p p o s i t e d i r e c t i o n s
(fig. 1l ). The distonce is correctly set when the two
portiol imoges ore exoctly oligned ond form one
s i n g l e u n b r o k e n i m o g e . l t i s o d v i s o b l e t o l o o k
f o r o s h o r p p e r p e n d i c u l o rl i n e w i t h i n t h e s u b i e c t ,
on which the correct olignment should be check-
e d . W h e n l o k i n g u p r i g h t p i c t u r e s o h o r i z o n t o l
l i n e s h o u l d b e c h o s e n .
Ground-glass screen focusing
Fis.l0 There ore subiectswhich hove no distinct verticol
lines for your splil-imoge rongefinder to work on.
Then the finely-ground ring should be used for
focusing in the some woy os o normol ground-
gloss screen is used.
Both methods of focusing ore equolly good ond
which to choose depends solely on the nolure of
t h e s u b i e c i .
The dislonce meosured con be reod off the dis-
tonce setting scole (20) (fig. l2).
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f/numbers to the left ond the righf of the distonce
setting mork. From this depth-of-field scole lhe
stop required con be reod off. The lens does not
only define shorply ihose obiects which ore ol
lhe exocl focusing distonce but olso those lying
either in front or behind it. This zone of shorp
definition (depth of field) is comporotively norrow
ot full operture (fl2.8l; it becomes greoter the
more the lens is sfopped down.
The depth-of-field scole, which is next to the
distonce scole, shows the ronge of the depth of
field of vorious operlures ond distonces. At stop
f/8 ond the distonce set to 7.5 tt the ronge of
depth of field lies opproximotely belween 5 ond 'f
3 ft; ot 1122,however, the deplh of field ronges
from opproximotely 3 ft lo -. Exoct volues con be
found in the loble on poge 29.
lf o definite depth-of-field zone is required, fhe
Fio.- l2 neorest ond the furthest points of the zone io be
Depth-of-field scale recorded shorply should be meosured with fhe
Generolly you will focus without even o glonce rongefinder. Find both ihese dislonces on the
of the distonce scole. The outomotion of your dislonce setting scole ond turn the setting ring
CONTAFLEXprimo mokes it unnecessoryto know (.|3) so thot it is opposile equol stop-volues on
the octuol distonce. There ore coses, however, both sides. The distonce is now set correctly for
when o different method of disionce setting the oppropriote stop, which lotter must now be
should be chosen, porticulorly when the impor' set on the scole (22).
tont detoils of the picture ore stoggered in depfh.
When looking ot the scoles (20) ond (2'l) of your
comero, you will see thct there is o double-scole
14 opposite the distonce scole showing lhe ronge of 15
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Measuringthe light "snopshols", the red-dot selling of the CONTA-
FLEXprimo should be used. After the light meos-
The light meosurementshould olwoys be perform- urement set lhe diophrogm to f/8 ond the disfonce
ed with the comero in the horizontol position; to l5 ft. For eosier setting, both these figures
this opplies olso to upright pictures. Aim the ore red. This combinotion resulls in everything
comero oi the subiect ond turn the exposure set- between 8 ft. ond o" being shorply recorded.
ting disc (10) so thot the lwo pointers (5) of the
exposure mefer coincide. With the light meosure-
ment finished lurn the ring (11) to set ihe mosf TheG01{TAFLEXSystem
suitoble shutler speed/operiurepoiring ond moke Exchangingthe converter lenses
the exposure.
Engroved on the diophrogm scole (22) ore the Tele-,wide-ongle ond stereo-picfurescon be token
operture volues trom t/2.8 (lorgest operture) to with the CONTAFLEX primo when the front ele-
f 122 (smollest operture). The block figures on the ment of lhe stondord lens is exchongedfor o con-
shulter speed scole (23) denote froctions of o verter lens. To remove the front element, hold the
s e c o n d ( e . 9 . 3 0 = 1 / r o s € c ; 6 0 = r / o os e c ) .T h e l o s f CONTAFLEXin your left hond (fig. l3) ond press
figure of this scole is I = I second. When set to the lock powl (12) in fhe direction of lhe lens
the green "B" the shutter remoins open os long os with your thumb. The milled fronl ring of the
the releose knob is depressed.The green figures stondord lens is then turned with the right hond
ore o colculoting support ond denole full seconds. to the left until it comes to o stop, ofter o slighi
lf one of these volues must be used together with
o definite stop the exposure setting disc (10)must
Fis.l3 be re-set ond the shuller speed setting turned
to "B".
When the comero is not used for o longer period
the shutter con be left tensioned without ony risk
of domoge.
Snapshot setting
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resisloncehos been overcome.Then lift the front PANTARfr4, 30 mnt, for wide-ongleshots.
elementupwordsfrom ils boyonetmount. The wide-onglelens coverso muchwider
When insertingo converferlens, the red dot on field of view ond is on involuobleoid for
the lens unii must be oppositelhe red dot of the interiorond orchiiecturolpictures.
lockpowl.Thelensunit is thenpressedhomewith PANTARil4r 75 ilm, for tele shots.
o right turn unfil on oudible click indicolesthe A telephotolenswhich,octing like o tele-
correctposition.All lensunitsof the CONTAFLEX scope,giveso consideroblylorger imoge
primo ore inserledin this woy: scole.Porticulorlyusefulfor porlroitsond
When inserting:red dot to red dot - furn right. londscopephotogrophy.
When removing:presslockpowl (.|2)-turn to left
STERITAR-D, f or stereo-piclures;port of the ZEISSond lift out.
IKON stereo-systemwhichopensup o newIn order to sofeguordthe highlyvulneroblegloss intereslingfield of photogrophyfor thesurfoces,refroin from touchingthem! CONTAFLEXprimo. The two holf-imoges,The followingconverlerlensesore ovoiloblefor 16x23 mm in size,lie side by side withinthe CONTAFLEXprimo: lhe normol imogefield of fhe CONTAFLEX.
The twin-picturesore bound like normol
slides without hoving to cut them oporl,
merely by using ihe ZEISSIKON stereo-
mosks.They con then be viewed immedi-
otely in o ZEISSIKON O-stereoviewer or
proiected with one of the ZEISS IKON
Stereo-Proiectors.
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Supplementarylensesfor close-ups fillers with o diometer of 27 mm for PANTAR
(zErss-PR0xARS) f 12.8,45 mm ond the STERITAR-Dond 60 mm for
the PANTARSf/4,30 mm ond f 14,75 mm.
The ZEISS IKON PANTAR lens f/2.8, 45 mm con The use of filters mokes it necessoryto prolong
be focused ot ony distonce down to 40 ins. For the exposure time by the filter foctor, which is
shorter distoncescooted supplemenlory(PROXAR) engroved on the mount of oll ZEISS IKON pre-
lensescon be slipped on to the lens (28.5mm @). cision filters.
The porollox-free viewfinder will then olso show This increose in exposure lime hos to be token
the exocl imoge field covered ond lhe picture con into occount by the oulomotic exposure control
be focused in the some woy os described on of the CONTAFLEXprimo. This is done by setting '13.
poge Five Proxor lenses ore ovoiloble: focol the filter corrector before the light meosuremenl.
length : JQlh ins. (100 cm) for subiects down lo For lhis purpose the speed figure of the film in
21 ins.; l9'lo ins. (50 cm) for subiectsdown lo l3'/' use is sel opposite the figures 2 or 4 beside the
ins.; ll3/o ins.; (30 cm) for subiects down to l0'/o DIN or ASA setiing mork (fig. 17) bV moving the
ins.;8 ins. (20 cm) for subiects down lo 6'ln ins.; lever (18).For different filter foctors oppropriote
ond 4 ins. (.|0cm) for subiectsdown to 3'/, ins. The intermediolevolues should be chosen.Then meos-
tobles supplied with the Proxor lensesgive detoils u r e f h e l i g h t .
of subiect distonces, the scoles of reproduction When the filter is removed the film speed must
obtoinoble ond the field covered. The dislonces be reodiustedto the triongle setting mork. To beor
should be meosured from the front rim of the in mind the film speed it is o good plon lo set
supplemeniory lens mount to the subiect. An the film type indicotor (7) to the speed ond the
operfure of fi8 usuolly provides sufficient depth type of the film in use immediotely ofler looding
of field. the comero (fig. l5).
Filters Fig.l5
The tone volues in block-ond-white pictures con
be improved by using filters.
ZEISS IKON precision filters ore ovoiloble in the
following colours: yellow, yellow-green, oronge,
red, IKOLOR-A, B, C ond F, ond U.V.-filters,oll
of which will be of greot ossistoncewhen speciol
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PolarizingFilter G0NTAP0L
The CONTAPOLpolorizing filter, screwed inio
the ZEISSIKON 112.845 mm PANTARlens mounl,
eliminotesdisturbingrefleciionsfrom shiny ond
reflectingsurfocesof non-metolobiecis.You con
observethe effecl of the polorizing filter in the
finder.An A 28.5mm diometerlenshoodor sup-
plementorylens (or both together)con be moun-
ted on top of the CONTAPOL.For furlher detoils
see fhe full inslructionsenclosedwith the po-
lorizingfilter. Fis.l6
con be screwed to occept correctionlensesto Lenshood compensotefor defecfsof vision,so thot focusing
This preventsflores ond fog in ogoinst-the-light ond froming con be performedwithout lhe oid
shols. In bod weother it olso protectsthe lens of glosses.When ordering correction glosses,
ogoinstroin ond snow.TheZEISSIKON lenshood pleosequoteyour oplicion'sprescriptionfor dis-
con olso be mountedon fop of filtersor PROXAR lonceglosses.
lenses.For the PANTARf 12.845 mm use o lens-
hood with slip-on mount, 0 A 28.5 mm; for fhe GableRelease PANTARtl4 75 mm use the screw-intype, @ S
60 mm. No lenshoodshould be used with the It is odvisobleto use o coble releose(fig.16)for
wide-onglePANTARf/4 30 mm. work of slow shutterspeedsond for time expo-
A smort leother cose is ovoiloble in which to sures from o iripod. The coble releoseshould
corryyour lenshood. be screwedinto the threodedsocketin the releose
For the PANTARf12.8,45 mm o rubber lenshood knob ('l).The ZEISSIKON coble releoseis fitted
is ovoiloblewhich con remoinon lhe lens when wilh o lock to keep the shutteropen for long iime
the ever-reodycose is closed. exposures(shutterselting"B").
0efective Eyesight Gopyingand Photomicrography
22 Into the ring on the eyepiece(15),o speciolmounl The CONTAFLEXprimo con be fitted to eitherthe 23
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The setting lever for flosh synchronisotionoper-
otes only when pressed downwords. At lhe "V"
selting the deloyed-oction releose (or self-timer)
is brought into oction. When the releose knob is
depressed,o relording mechonismis set in motion
which opens lhe shutter ot obout I seconds.Time
exposures ("B" selting) connot be mode with lhe
Fis.l7 self-timer. lf flosh lomps ore connected lo the
shutter,set fo "V", the deloyed-oclion mechonism toble copying unit or the CONTAX copying out- will fire the flosh os with "X" seffing.The synchro-
fifs. Two exiension lubes ore required to connecl lever con be set to "V" only when lhe shutter is
the comero to o microscope. Focusing is mode tensioned ond the lever depressed.
eosier by ihe use of o right'ongle viewing tele- For flosh exposures, connect the flosh leod of the
scope oilochment screwed into the viewfinder gun to the flosh contoct (9) ond only then inserl
eyeprece. the bulb. When the releose knob (l) is depressed,
Flash and Delayed Action Shots the flosh bulb will be fired synchronouslywilh the
opening of the shutter.
The fully-synchronizedProntor-Reflexshutler con
be used with ony type of flosh equipment. IKOBLITZ4
It is olso provided with o built-in deloyed-oclion
releose. The IKOBLITZ 4 copocifor floshgun is o hondy
There ore lwo settings for flosh: "X" ond "M" unit mode of olmost unbreokoble plostic moteriol,
(fig. 17). When sel to "X" lhe shutter fires the which con be corried olong fixed to the strop of
flosh ot the moment the shutter blodes ore fully
open. Eleclronic flosh tubes should only be fired Fig. 18,19
with the "X" setting.
At the "M" selling lhe shutter opens ofter o very
short deloy which corresponds to the deloy-to-
peok of most floshbulbs. The correct settings for
the vorious floshbulbs ond flosh copsuleswill be
found in fhe moker's instructionsond olso in our
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Maintenance of the G0NTAFLEX prima From time to time the film trock, the film chombers ond the bock of the CONTAFLEXprimo should be corefully cleoned with o soft brush. (Do not force up the copping plole, qs this might domoge the mechonism!)The lenses should be cleoned only when reolly necessory. Gently wipe fhe lenses with o soft, wellwoshed piece of linen (but not leother)! offer removing ony dust with o soff brush. Polish the chromium-ploiedexternol fittings occosionollywiih o sofl linen rog. Serial Numbers There is o seriol number (o letter preceding o number) on the bock of every CONTAFLEX com- ero ond olso on the mount of the built-in PAN- TAR. You ore odvised to moke o note of both these numbers, os they moy be of greoi help irr estoblishing ownership in coses of loss or theft.View original page 18
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