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Dear Photo Fan, In your RETINA automatic III you own a fully automatic miniature camera . You can select any shutter speed you wish right up to the top speed of 1/ 500 second. You can take rapid action sports pictures iust as easi ly as lifelike snapshots. The fully automatic mechanism of your RETINA automatic III will always select the correct lens opening for the pre-set shutter speed. Your RETINA automatic III iust wi ll not allow you to make any mistake in exposure.
It is easy to take pictures with your RETINA automatic 1111 Set th e shutter speed Turn the shutter speed ring until the required shutter speed is opposite the letter A and the setting index. Focus Move the outlines of the double image in the bright rangefinder field together to coincide. S ight and shoot Compose your subject inside the luminous viewframe of the large-image viewfinder and slowly depress the exposure release.
Setting the shutter speed For fully automatic picture-taking with your RETINA automat ic III you can use all shutter speeds from ' h o seco nd up to ' /500 second_ The figures 30, 60, 125, 250, and 500 on the shutter speed ring (a) are fractions of a second. Turn the shutter speed ring until the required shutter speed, ' /60 second, for instance, is opposite the letter " A" (a utomatic) and the setting index (b).
Focusing look through the eyepiece of the large-image finder and you will see the subject outlined by the luminous view-frame. In the center of the field of view you will also notice a round rangefinder field. Until the camera is facused for the correct distance, this field shaws a double image of the subject. Turn the focusing knab (d) until the outlines of the double image move together and coincide. The lens is now accurately set for the film plane-to-subject distance.
Sight and shoot The reflected brilliant frame indicotes the field area and prevents faulty view ing . You can hold the camera either horizontally or vertically. When sighting a picture take special care not to get your fingers in front of the honeycomb cell window of the exposure meter. When you have your subject nicely in the finder slowly press the release key (e). Naturally, the shutler has to be set by means of the rapid wind lever (f) before it can be released.
Preventing under- exposure If there is not enough light to take pidures at a selected shutter speed with the type of film in the camera, your RETINA automatic III will indicate this by the appearance of a STOP signal in the viewfinder and the body release will lock. If this happens you must change the shutter speed to a slower one or, if ' h o is already set, you can take such a photograph only with flashlight. See hints on page 16.
Loading the film 1. Always laad yaur RETINA automatic III in the shade_or at least in the shadow of your body. 2. To open the back of the camera, press the milled lever (g) clockwise; the opposite end of the lever then uncovers the opening button (h). Press this button and the back springs open. 3. Pull the rewind knob (i) out os far os it will go . 4. Insert the magazine in the supply chamber with the protruding end of the film pointing towards the bu ilt-in take-up spool (i). "'---..:= 5.
Milled lever Opening button ~ Rewind knob ~ Built-in take-up spool Film transport sprocket
Having loaded the camera, remember to • Set the film counter • Set the film speed • Set the film indicator This is how to set the film counter The film counter operates from No. 36 back to No.1 , and it thu s shows you at any tim e how many exposures you have left on your film.
Very i mportant : the film speed The speed rating of the film in your RETINA automatic III is a most important factor in obtaining correctly exposed pictures. You must therefore set the film speed scale of the shutter speed ring with particular care . ASA speeds are engraved in red on this scale. To set, press down the lever (0) and turn the shutter speed ring (d) until the red dot is opposite the required ASA or DIN figure, as for instance 50 ASA.
When your film reaches the end After the last exposure the film must be rewound into its magazine . To do this, press the clutch button (p) in the camera base and turn the rewind knob (h) in the direction of the arrow until the clutch button ceases to rotate . (Watch the black dot on the clutch button.) Then open the camera back in subdued light, pullout the rewind knob, and remove the magazine.
Films for colour Kodacolor Film: Makes colour negatives, which are then printed on paper to provide natural-colour prints . Faster than Kodachrome Film, it a llows good pictures in lighting hitherto considered unsuitable for co~our photography (ASA 32 - BS 26°). Kodachrome Film: There are two kinds - Daylight Type, and for Photoflood light, Type A. Both give miniature colour slid es at no extra processing charge, from which prints and enlargements in colour or black-and-white can be made subsequently.
How to read the depth of field The depth of field is indicated between the arrows engraved in the front of the shutter. These arrows are the depth-of-field limits at a lens opening of f /4. The depth of field increases beyond these arrows with every smaller lens opening down to f/22. Aim your camera at the subiect and look straight down on the needle of the exposure meter (see illustration above left). The needle indicates the automatically set lens opening, say fi ll . With the distance set to 10 ft.
If yo u want to shoot with an even greater depth of field change the automatically set lens openi ng by tur- ning the shutter speed ring (a) until the needle of the exposure meter points at the figure 16, for instance. The re levant shutter speed is automatically set at A. (The divisions without figures identify, from left to right: f/2.S - f/S.6 - fill - f/22.
Flash pictures with the RETI NA automatic III Slide your flash gun, the KODAB LlTZ, for instance, into the accessory shoe of your camero, plug the flash coble into the flash socket (s), and set the required distance. For flash shots with flashbulbs turn the shutter speed ring (0) to ' ho second. In conjunction with electronic flash any shutter speed from 'h o up to ' / 500 sec. may be used. Your RETINA automatic III always operates in the X sy nchronizer position.
Time exposures are possible too For time exposures turn the shutter speed ring until the letter B is opposite the setting mark (b). You will feel a slight resistance between '130 sec. and B. The automatic exposure control is now disengoged. Then set the required lens opening by turn ing the lens opening ring (c). Th e shutter will remain open for as long as the expos ure release is depressed. Such pictures should be taken on a tripod and with a cable release which screws into the socket (t).
Close- ups between 3 and 8 feet When taking pictures of subjects between 3 and 8 feet the field of view outlined by the luminous frame in the large-image viewfinder does not show what will actually appear in the final picture because the finder and lens are spaced an inch or so apart, and this is called parallox. To compensate for such parallax at a distance of 3 ft.
Changing partly exposed films If you have to change a film that you have only partly exposed, first rewind that film into the magazine (page 12). Rewind o.nly as long as the clutch button rotates, then stop. This will leave the trimmed film leader outside the magazine. Remove the film from the camera and mark on the magazine the number read off the film counter.
Use filters for better pictures Filters are used wi th block-and-w hite film to obtain correct tone rendering and for special effects. With colour films , used in a camero as the RETINA automatic, filters are use d to ch a nge the colour of the light to suit th e particular colour film in use. Most filters have w hat is called a filter factor. This is th e factor by w hich th e exposure must be increased to compensate for the light absorbed by the filter.
Example You wont to use a yellow-green filter (F III) for a shot on block-and-white film . On the film speed scale you have set, for instan ce, 50 ASA. The table on the preceding page indicates that the film speed setting must be reduced by 1 division if a yellow-green filter is used . Your new setting on the ASA scale therefore becomes 25 ASA (see illustration) . When the filter is removed again, remember also to reset the· film speed accordingly - In our example bock to 50 ASA .
Depth of Field Table (Sharp Zones* in Feet) Aperture 2,8 I 4 I 5,6 8 11 16 22 * 22 I I I I I I Depth from to from to from to from to from to from to from to At distance setting in feet I 3,5 I 3'1 " I I 3' 7// 3' 3'9" 4 I I 4'3" 3' 7" 4' 5" 2' 11 " 3' 6" I 3' 11" I 4'7/1 2'9" 4'3" 3'3" 5' I I 2'7" I I I 4' 7" 2'5" 5'6" 2' 2" 7' 1" I 3' I I 5'6" 2'8" 6' 8" I I I I I I 2'5/1 I 10' 5 I 4'7" 3' B" I 5' 5" 4'5" 5'9" 4'3" 6' 4' 6' 7" 3'8" 7' 11 " 3'4" 11'1 " 2' 9
Your accessories for the RETI NA automatic III The lens hood should be port of your standard outfit. There is a practical leather case available to take the lens hood plus three filters . The close-up rangefinder (the model marked f/45) , used with the N I, N II, and N III a close-up lenses, permits near shots between 38 1/ 4 and 12 inches (97 to 30 cm) . It shows the exact field of view, free from parallax.
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