Zeiss Ikon Continette User manual

The



This is o hondy minioture comero which
will give you losting pleosure. The ro-
pid wind lever, operoting severol con-
trols simultoneously, ensures ropid ond
relioble oction. The cleor, well-orrong-
ed scoles will give you oll the infor-
motion you need.
The CARL ZEISS LUCINAR  f 12.8,45 mm
lens is the very heort of your CONTI-
NETTE. lt is highly colour-corrected ond
will give need le-sho rp photogrophs on
block-ond-white or colour films.
Before looding the comero for the first
time you should get fomilior with your
CONTINETTE by operoting the vorious
controls described. Coreful hondling of
the comero occording to these instruc-
tions will ensure the relioble function-
ing of oll its controls.

The $ettings
The shutter speeds
Theshutter speedsetting ring (6) should
be turned until the red setting mork is
exoctly opposite the shutter speed de-
sired. Intermediqte settings ore olso
possible. The figures denote frociions
of o second (60 equol to l/60 sec., etc.).
When set to ,B" the shutter remoins
open until the pressure on the releose
knob (1) is reloxed.
Aperture setting
By meons of the mif led hondle (5), the
operture scole con be moved until the
operture or stop desired is opposite
the setting mork.
Distance setting
Turn the distonce setting scqle until the
meter or feet-figure required is oppo-
site the setting mork (10). The shorp de-

finition of the lens is not limited to
obiects of the exoctly focused distonce,
but olso covers o certoin ronge before
ond beyond this point. This zcn? of
shorpness is comporotively smoll ot
full operture, but increoses os the lens
is stopped down. The smoller the oper-
ture, the greoter the depth of field.
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The scole (1.|) beors two sefs of figures
opposite the distonce scqle. The figures
on the distonce scole opposite eoch
set of identicol operfure figures denote
the beginning ond the end of the depth
of field. Exomple: setting 6 ft of oper-
ture f 111 ; the depth of field will cover
the zone between 4 ft ond I0  f t.
Exoct volues ore given in the foble on
the reverse of the instruction booklet.
Snapshot setting
Set the d istonce to 20 ond the opertu re
to 8. Now everything between 10 ft.
ond "infinity" will be recorded shorply.
As a rough-and-ready rule try:
Outdoor exposures in bright sunshine
  film speed 40 ASA = 27o BSI -- 17"
  DIN: operture 8, 11125 sec.
Outdoor exposures, sky slightly over-
cost
  film speed 40 ASA
  DIN: operiure 5.6, l/60 sec.

The Exposure
Tensioning the shutter
Turn the ropid wind lever (14) to the
 right until it stops. This will olso od-
vonce the film ond the frome counter
 (2). The lever will spring bock to its ini-
 tiol position. lt is impossible to moke
double exposures ond blonks.





Sighting
Hold the CONTINETTEwith both honds
ond try to find the most convenient po-
sition. The correct woy to hold the
comero is shown in the illustrotions.
The viewfinder will show exoctly the
some froming os depicfed on the film.

Release
Press the releose knob (1) colmly but
steodily.lf it connot be depressed the
ropid lever wind (.|4) hos not been turn-
ed until it stops, so tension the shut-
ter properly ! This will not couse the
loss of o frome. After releosing the
shutter you should tension it onceogoin
immediotely. The shutter will not suffer
if it remoins tensioned for o fong pe-
riod


Selftimer
Press the red lever (9) towords the right.
When the releose knob  (l ) is depressed
the shutter will be operoted outomot-
icolly ofter o deloy of opproximotely
9 seconds, which is ompf e time to posi-
tion yourself for o self-portroit. Time
exposures (,,B") ore not possible with
the selftimer.

Time exposures
When the shutter is set to ,,B" the CON-
TINETTE should be ploced on o firm
support or screwed to o tripod. For
upright pictures o boll-ond-socket heod
should be used. The shutter should be
releosed by meons of o coble-releose,
which con be screwed into the releose
knob (l ). The ZEISS IKON coble releose
is fitted with o lock for long time ex-
posures.

Flashf ight
Slide the flosh holderiniothe occessory
shoe or screw it to the brocket which
is fitted to the tripod bush. Connect the
floshleod to the flosh contoct (8). Set
the shutter to l/30 sec. when using
floshbulbs. Electronic flosh units con
be fired ot oll shutter speeds. Find the
correct operture setting in the instruc-
tions issued with your flosh lomp.
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Loading the Gamera
 (in subdued light only)


Push the locking bor (12l' in the direc-
tion of the orrow until the bock of the
comero springs open.


Insert the  fi lm co rtridge o nd push it on
to the rewind spindle (13). lt moy be
necessory to turn the rewind knob (7)
slishtly.


Turn the toke-up spool by its milled
edge (16) until its slot is on top. Hook
one perforotion hole of the beginning
of the film into the lug in the slot.
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Now wind the film on to the toke-up
spool until the tronsport sprocket  (.|5)
engoges the perforotions on both sides.
The cut-out knob (17) should be de-
pressed to focilitote this operotion.
Reploce the comero bock ond lock  it.
Setting the frame counter
Turn the milled ring (2) in the direction
of the orrow until the block mork is op-
posite one of the red morkings on the
counting disc.
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Setting for 36
         exposu re
        cortridges


    Setting  f or 20
        exposure
        cortridges
Now tension ond releose the shutter
twice. The rewind knob should turn ou-
tomoticolly. lf it foils to do so turn the
knob in the direction of the orrow until
o slight resistonce  is felt. This is olso o
relioble indicotion of whether the com-
ero is looded or not.
When now tensioned once ogoin the
CONTIN ETTE is reody for oction. The
frome counter counts bockwords, thot
is to soy, it indicotes the number of
unexposed fromes.

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Rewinding the exposed film
Depress the cut-out knob (.|7) ond turn
the rewind knob in the direction of the
orrow until q slight resistonce is felt
(thot is when the film is detoched  f rom
the toke-up spool).
Then open the bock of the co mero in
subdued light ond remove the cortridge
with the exposed  fi lm. When inserting
o new film, toke core thot both spool
chombers ore free from dust.

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Accessories
Ever-ready case
The cose protects the CONTIN ETTE
ogoinst domoge. The comero is screw-
ed to the cose ond need not be re-
moved  f rom it  f or exposu res.

ZEISS lK0N precision filters
to improve the tone votues in block-
ond-white pictures: Yellow, yellow-
green, oronge, red ond blue (IKOLOR-
B) filters. The IKOLOR-B filter con be
used olso by ortificiol light on doylight
colour film.
Doylight exposures on colour film for
ortificiol light qre possible with the
IKOLOR-A filter whilst, for doylight
exposures on floshlight colour film the
IKOLOR-F filter should be used. For ex-
posures in the high mountoins obove
6 000 ft the use of o Uv-filter is odvis-
qble. When using filters, the exposure

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must be increosed by the  fi lter foctor,
which is engroved in the mount of every
ZEISS IKON filter. The filters ore pro-
vided with o O 27 mm screw-in mount.
When four filters ore ordered simul-
toneously, they ore issued in o procti-
col cose.
Measuring is better than guessing
The photo-electric ZEISS IKON IKO-
PHOT exposure meter olwoys indicotes
the correct volues. lt is especiolly impor-
tont for colour photogrophy, since col-
our pictures must be correctly exposed.





G0NTAP0L polarising filter
suppresses or even eliminotes disturb-

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ing reflections on block-ond-white ond
 colour  fi lms. In colour photogrophs
 with o greot deol of blue sky, the col-
 ours will oppeor more soturoted.

 ZEISS PR0XAR lenses
 For close-ups down to 50 (20), 30 (12),
 24 (8't,) ond  I 6 (6't,1 cm (inch.) in slip-on
 mounts 28.5 mm in diometer. An oper-
 ture of of leost   f 18 usuolly provides
 sufficient depth of field.
The finder porollox occurring with close-
ups con be compensoted for by mov-
ing the comero or the subiect to be
token. When 4 PROXAR lenses ore or-
dered simultqneously thev will be pro-
vided in o procticol cose, the lid of
which is fitted with o depth-of-field  col-
culotor. This colculotor olso indicotes
the correct distonce setting for the indi-
viduol distonces in close-up exposures.

Lenshood
 prevents flore ond fog in ogoinst-the'
 light pictures. In bod weother it olso
protects the lens ogoinst roin ond snow.
 It con be slipped over filters ond PRO-
XAR lenses. With slip-on mount the lens
hood diometer is 28.5 mm. There is olso
o flexible lens hood mode of plostic     ,l
(screw-in mount A 27 mm), which con       'l
be  f olded bock o nd remo ins on the                      I
lens when the ever-reody cose is closed.              I

tK0BUTZ
The IKOB LITZ 4 copocitor ftosh gun
con be odopted eosily to the CONTI-
NETTE. lt excels in its greot light in-
tensity. The reflector con be folded eo-
sily for convenience.





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 . . . and finally, some good advice                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               tt.'ir:i.ll,r/;
 Fronr tirle to tirle , the filnr trock of thc
CONTINETTE orrd llrc spool clrcrrrl)crs
 should be cleoned ond dusted with  cr
 soft brush, the lens also. The lcns rrroy
 ire wiped oficrwolds with o well-wosh
ed piece of  liner"r, but only wl.ren it  is
 nlrcni'   rlplrr  neroccar'-"---.v
Therc is cr ser.iol nunrbcr.in the l-lcrci< cf
every CONTINETTE. You crr.e odviscd
to nroke cr coreful noic of this r.runrbg.
crs il nrcry help in estoblishing  owner'-
ship in coses of loss or theft.

 . . . and one more hint
 lf you orc cvcr. in doubi, do not he sitctr
to osk your  phoio-deoler.for   odvice.



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