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Main parls:
I Knob for opening comero
2 Knobs for closing comero
3 Focus scole
4 Lever for dioPhrogm setting
5 Ring for shutter sPeed
6 Setting lever for shulter
7 Body shutter releqse
I Socket for cqble-releose
9 Sighring operlure for ronge-finder
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REAR VTEW fiq-
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l 0 Focussing knob
il D e p t h o f f o c u s s c q l e
1 2W i n d i n g k n o b f o r f i l m
1 3 E x p o s ur e c o u n t e r
r 4Film clutch
l 5 S m o l l m i l l e d w h e e l f o r e x p o s ur e c o u n l e r
r 5 Locking lever fon cqmero bock
t 7 Toke - up spool
Film rewind knob 4
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l 8 Tripod sockej lf
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First steps

Al To open the camera

Pressbutton I ; lilt the comero gently forword (fig. 3t'
Pull the boseboord down until you heor the lwo slruts
snop into position.

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B ) To close the camera

The RETINA ll musl be closed only when the focus;ing
lens mount is set on OO (infinity).
lf the comero is closed when lhe lensmount ist set for
ony olher distonce lhon oo (infinily) serious domoge
mcry resull. To close the comero, -press in the two
tocking-knobs2 on the sides of the front-plote (fig. )
ond fold up lhe boseboord ot the some time.

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 When lhe comero is closed, lhe shuller connol be re-
leosed eyen by pressing lhe body-shuiler-releose.

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Descriplion
The lens
of the RETINA ll is either o six lens Retino-Xenon
t 2 2 , 0o r o H e l i g o n t 2 2 , 0 o f s o m e l e n s n u m b e r s h o w n
in the mcrnuol. These lensesore most corefully selecfed
ond corrected to produce the best possible results.

In order fo tqke o good

picture it is importont
olwoys to keep the lens
cleon. In cleoning the
lens be coreful not to
scr otch it. Best r esulfs
mgy be obtoined by
usingregulor Kodok lens
poper or o smoll piece
of soft cloth.

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The slops
(or diophrogm openings) ore odiusted by moving
lever 4 to the oppropriole lens slop.
Th e s l o p s o r e i mp o rl o n t fo r l h e depth of focus ( see
"Deplh of Focus-Scole").
The more deplh of focus you need, the smoller the
lens operlure. The smoller the lens operlure the higher
the stop number (stop 5,6 is smoller thon stop 4).

The exposure time

is odiusted by lurning the milled ring 5 until lhe
desired shulter speed comes over the orrow on lhe
lef t o f t h e w ord " K o d o k" . T h e number s r epr esent fr oc-
tions of seconds. A guide lo correct exposure is given
in lhe "Exposure loble" ol the reor of the monuol.

To use as a Fixed Focus Camera

set the stop to f.8 ond focus lhe

lenson the red point neor 25feet.
E v e r y t h i n gw i l l t h e n b e i n s h o r p
focus from "lnfinity" to l5 feet.
With the stop set to f.8 ond the
lens focussedon ihe othcr red
point neqr l0 feet, everything is
shorp from l5 feet to 7 feet. (Do
n o t fo rg e t to set the Focus bqck
to "infinity" before :losing the
c ome r o ) .

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The Compur Rapid Shutler
The Compur Ropid Shulter on your "Retino" ll wlll give
e x p o s u r e s o f l , rl z, rl s, rl n , rl zs, rlsc, l/uo, l/zsl ond l/soc,
olso Bulb exposures. The figures morked on lhe milled
ring represenlfruclions of o second: 2:tlz, 100- Uroo,
elc. The shuttermust be set for oll exposuresincluding
Bulb, by pressing over lhe setling-lever 6 os for os it
will go. The setting Jever must not be left in o holf-
woy position becouse the shulter might then open
occidento!ly. Exposures ore mode by pressing the
body shutter releose 7.

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For Bulb exposures ('B') the shulter opens when the

shuller releose is pressed ond closes when it is re-
leosed. For lhese exposures il is qdvisoble to screw
lhe "Retino" ll on lo o lripod; lhere is o tripod socket
18 for this purpose. Next to the body-releose there
is o socket into which the coble-releose con be
screwed.
The buih-in Range Finder

r ; 9 .8

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 The Depth oI Focus Scale

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The Film Loclc

Film transporl and shuffer release do onl

o p e r a t e wh e n rh e fi l m i s loaded. Ther efor e,
SSvell
rhe number of the loken piclures con be seen frorn
the exposure counler 13.
The exposure Counler

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Handling of camera
How to load lhe film
Lift the locking cotch 16 ond open the bock of the
comero. L.oy the comero down in front of you, ope-
ned,. so. thot fhe bock is on the right (fig. l3). Pull
out knob 17 os for os it will come ond inserl lhe new
cosselle of Kodok block-ond-white or Kodochrome"
film in the film-chomber (fig. l4). Push in ond ot the
some time lurn knob l7 to hold lhe cossette in posilion-
Threod the end of the film into one of the slois in lhe
spool in the right-hond film.chomber (fig. l5). Give

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knob 12 o holf furn to see thot the film is firmly fixed
in lhe slot. Be sure lhot the film lies stroight in the
t ro d < p r o v i de d ; th e n cl o se th e bock of lhA comer o
o n d t u r n k n o b 1 2 o s f o r o s i t w i l l g- dou. r iAnsg t h e f i r s t
lenglh of film moy hove been fogged lhe loo-
ding operolion it is odvisoble lo wind tha film on
one more picture-length. This is done by first setting
the shutter ond pressing the body shutter releosel
this ollows the winding knob to lurn. Now lurn lhe
exposure counier 13 to the fig. l. Push down ond in
ond turn the smoll wheel l5 until the exposure coun-
ter 13 shows fig. l.

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Winding on the film
The film is wound on ofler eoch exposure by lurning
rnou 12 in the direclion of the orrow os for os il will
oo. You connot wind on the film wilhout first setting
6na releosing the shuller, so thot double exposures
ond blonks <rre ovoided.

How lo unload lhe IiIm

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only then moy the bock be opened ond the cossetle

of lxposed fiim be token out. lt is odvisoble not lo
lood or unlood the film in brilliont sunshine, os the
firsl few exposures moy become fogged.

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The exposed film con b e w ro p- ped in lhe pocking
you loke from lhe next cossetle of Kodok film thot you
should hove reody to iood into lhe comero.

How Io hold the camera

It is porticuloryeosy to hold ond

operote the "Retinq,, ll thonks
to its compoctness qnd hondy
shope. lt rests comfortobly i;
both honds ond the forefinq6r of
t h e r i g h t h o n d c o m e s i u s t -o v e r
th e b o d y- r eleqse. Pr oitise hol-
ding the comero in both the
verticolo nd horizonfql positions.
lf need be, the cqmero con be
operoted with one hond.

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R E C A P I T U tAT I O I\U

F i s .2 0 Fig.21

O open the cqmereil O Set the

dicphrogm sccrle
to the desired flnumber

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O Sighr rhrough the ronge-finder

ond mqke sure thqt the lwo irnoges of the subiect
coincide excctly qnd subiect is correcily fromed.
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seven steps in taking a piclure

Fig. F i s .2 3

o Se? the
shutter speed
(} Cock rhe shumer
fo t h e d e s i r e d t i m e Fv moving the setting
lever cockwiseos for
os it will go

Fig. Fig 26

o ^-,
v wind _rhefilm ro rhe
nexf frqme
The body-releose con
only. be- ope.roted
ogoin ofter the film hos
been wound to the nexl
frome ond the shulter
hcs been set
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