User manual MINOX M4P

Not For Resale ­ Free Download at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/joechan/manuals Not For Resale ­ Free Download at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/joechan/manuals You are the owner of a LEICA® We hope that you will obtain as much enjoyment from it as all the many LEICA fans in every country of the globe. As a LEICA owner you have the benefit of a universal photographic system, which also covers the technical and scientific field. In its widest sense, it includes the well-known LEITZ enlargers and LEITZ miniature projectors. The projected image, huge, luminous, and realistic, reveals the full beauty of your colour photographs, and never fails to fascinate you and your friends. May your LEICA be a constant source of pleasure to you. Yours sincerely ERNST LEITZ WETZLAR GMBH 2 Not For Resale ­ Free Download at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/joechan/manuals Contents Page Description of the LEICA M 4-2....................4 Fitting the carrying strap...............................6 How to hold the LEICA.................................6 The bright-line measuring viewfinder ...........8 The field-of-view selector ...........................10 The rangefinder..........................................12 The rapid transport lever, release button, and shutter speed dial....................14 The depth-of-field scale..............................15 The distance scale. The aperture scale .....16 Taking out the lens. Inserting the lens........17 Flash synchronization ................................18 Flash table .................................................19 Inserting the film.........................................20 Removing the film ......................................21 Looking after your LEICA and its lenses.........................................................22 Page The LEICA system The exposure meter...................................23 The interchangeable lenses.......................24 LEICA M 4-2 winder...................................25 ® VISOFLEX . Focusing bellows ..................26 Lens hoods. Cases ....................................27 Enlargers ...................................................28 Projectors...................................................29 LEITZ Service ............................................30 LEICA Fotografie Magazine.......................30 LEITZ Information Service .........................31 LEICA School ............................................31 3 Not For Resale ­ Free Download at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/joechan/manuals 1 Automatic frame counter 2 Shutter release button 3 Rapid transport lever 4 Film rewind release 5 Shutter speed dial 6 Rangefinder window 4 7 Lens bayonet lock 8 Red locating knob for lens insertion 9 Accessory shoe with flash contact 10 Depth-of-field scale 11 Distance scale 12 Aperture scale Not For Resale ­ Free Download at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/joechan/manuals 13 Window illuminating the bright-line frames 14 Field-of-view selector 15 Viewfinder field window 16 Folding rewind crank 17 Carrying-strap eyelets 18 Measuring-viewfinder eyepiece 19 20 21 22 Baseplate lock Contact bush for flashbulbs Contact bush for electronic flash units Film indicator (takes ball-pen writing) with DIN/ASA comparison scale 23 Tripod thread A¼ (¼") 5 Not For Resale ­ Free Download at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/joechan/manuals Fitting the carrying strap The eyelets (17) are provided for fitting the carrying strap. Release the double d-back length of leather from the round part of the shackle, push off both metal parts and hook them in the eyelets of the camera in opposite directions. Thread the leather holders through the slots in the metal parts and secure them with the round part of the shackle. 6 Not For Resale ­ Free Download at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/joechan/manuals How to hold the LEICA For steady three-point support hold your camera with your right hand, your index finger resting on the release button, your thumb on the rapid-transport lever. The left hand either supports the lens from below, ready for quick refocusing, or it grasps the camera. In addition press the camera against your forehead. For upright views all you have to do is to rotate the camera through 90°. The position of your hands is the same as for horizontal views. You can also rotate the camera in the opposite direction, then you must use your thumb to release the shutter. 7 Not For Resale ­ Free Download at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/joechan/manuals The bright-line measuring viewfinder The bright-line measuring viewfinder of the LEICA M4-P has been designed to combine the functions of a coupled rangefinder and of a viewfinder of outstanding quality. Whatever you see within the bright frame will appear on your exposed film. The bright-line frame is coupled with the rangefinder so that the parallax - the difference between the lens axis and the viewfinder axis - is automatically compensated. The measuring field, brighter than the surrounding field, is located in the centre of the viewfinder field. All the lenses of 21-135mm focal length are coupled with the rangefinder on insertion in the LEICA. When lenses of 28 (from serial No. 2314921), 35, 50, 75, 90 and 135 mm focal length are inserted, the appropriate brightline frames will automatically appear in the viewfinder image in the combinations 28 + 90mm, 35 + 135mm, and 50 + 75mm. 8 Not For Resale ­ Free Download at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/joechan/manuals 9 Not For Resale ­ Free Download at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/joechan/manuals The field-of-view selector The field-of-view selector (14) functions as a universal viewfinder; it enables the LEICA owner at any time to reflect into the viewfinder field the frames outlining the fields-of-view other than that of the lens that happens to be in the camera. Lever outward: field-of-view frames for 35 and 135mm focal lengths. Lever inward: field-ofview frame for the 28 and 90 mm focal lengths. Lever in the middle position: fieldof-view frame for the 50 and 75 mm focal lengths. 10 Not For Resale ­ Free Download at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/joechan/manuals 11 Not For Resale ­ Free Download at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/joechan/manuals The rangefinder The measuring field of the rangefinder appears in the centre of the viewfinder as a bright, sharply outlined oblong. If you block the large field window (15) of the viewfinder, only the reflected bright-line frame and the measuring field remain visible. Focusing can be carried out according to the coincidence or to the splitimage method. Coincidence (double image) focusing: in portraiture, for instance, focus on the highlight in the sitter's eye. Observe the subject through the viewfinder and rotate the lens until the double contours in the measuring field coincide. Split-image focusing: Sight an edge or any other clearcut line; if you find that this line is offset sideways as it enters the measuring field, rotate the lens until the line becomes continuous as it passes from the viewfinder- into the measuring field and out again. This method is to be preferred because of its superior accuracy. 12 Not For Resale ­ Free Download at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/joechan/manuals 13 Not For Resale ­ Free Download at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/joechan/manuals The rapid winding lever (3) at each full lever movement transports the film through one frame, winds the shutter and advances the frame counter to the next number. The film can also be transported by several short strokes of the transport lever. ( = film plane indication). The release button (2) has a thread for a cable release (Code No. 14067). It should be pressed smoothly, without a jerk, until its soft click indicates that the shutter is released. The shutter speed dial (5) controls the shutter speed and can be set either before or after the shutter is wound. It clicks home at every engraved speed value and except for the range between 8 and 15 any intermediate speeds can be set and are fully effective. At the "B" setting the shutter remains open as long as the release button is pressed. The dial must be set at 1 the symbol = /50 sec. when electronic flash is used. 14 Not For Resale ­ Free Download at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/joechan/manuals The LEICA lenses have a fixed ring with depth-of-field scale (10), a rotatable ring for setting the focusing distance (11) and an iris diaphragm ring (12). The distance scale The distance scale (11) indicates the distance on which the lens is set, and, in connection with the depth-of-field scale (10), the extent of the depth of field. The distance is also important to the calculation of the guide number during the use of flash equipment. down; the values have been chosen so that the quantity of light reaching the film is halved every time the lens is stopped down one step. One aperture step is equivalent to one step on the shutter speed dial (5) regarding the adjustment of the light quantity to which the film is exposed. Like the shutter speed dial, the lens diaphragm ring clicks into position opposite each number (some diaphragm rings also at half values). This will enable you, after some practice, to identify the setting of the diaphragm even in the dark. The aperture scale The aperture scale is internationally laid 15 Not For Resale ­ Free Download at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/joechan/manuals The depth-of-field scale The lens reproduces at maximum sharpness the plane, parallel to the film, on which it is focused. This maximum sharpness falls off gradually towards the front and rear; within a certain depth, then, the subject will appear sharp. This depth of field depends on the camera distance, the focal length of the lens, and the lens stop set. Stopping down the lens increases, opening it up decreases the depth of field. The depth-of-field scale indicates the depth-of-field zone for the object distance on which the lens is focused. With the 50mm SUMMICRON® f/2 focused on 5m (16ft, Sin), sharpness at f/4 extends from 4m to about 8m (13ft. 4in to about 26ft. Sin). However, if you stop down to f/11 at the same focusing distance, sharpness will extend from 3m to about 20m (10ft. to about 67ft.). 16 Not For Resale ­ Free Download at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/joechan/manuals Inserting the lens The red knob on the lens mount (8) must face the red dot on the camera body. After a short turn to the right the lens will engage in the bayonet mount with a click. Change lenses in the shade (e.g. of your own body). Remove the lens cap before you take pictures. Taking out the lens Grip the rear, fixed ring (10) of the lens. Depress arresting button (7), rotate the lens to the left and take it out. 17 Not For Resale ­ Free Download at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/joechan/manuals Flash synchronization The LEICA M 4-P accepts all flash units on the market with standard flash plugs (coaxial plug) or with accessory-shoe contact. The bushes for the cable connection of flash units are arranged on the back of the camera. Flashbulbs are connected to the left-hand bush (20) marked "M", and electronic flash units on the right-hand bush marked "X" (21). Flash units and adapters without cable connection can be connected through the "X" flash contact in the accessory shoe (9). Flash cubes and certain types of flash-bulb are fired through the X contact bush. The table on the right offers information about the various possibilities. Three flash units may be used simultaneously through the 3 flash connections. 18 Not For Resale ­ Free Download at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/joechan/manuals Electronic flash AG 1 Flash Cubes X BB ( = /50) 1 AG 3 M Flashbulbs 2 X B B /30 1 XM 1 PF 1 M B B /60 1 Flash table XM 5 PF M 5 3 M M B B /125 B B /500 1 1 GE 5 25 X = Contact or accessory shoe electronic flash M = Contact for flashbulbs 19 Not For Resale ­ Free Download at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/joechan/manuals Inserting the film First make sure, by turning the rewind crank (16) in the direction of the arrow, that the camera is empty. If you feel any resistance, proceed as described on the following page. Take the camera in your left hand, base- plate facing you. Pull out the toggle in the baseplate (19), turn it to the left, and re- move the baseplate. The film lead must be trimmed like that of all films sold in cartridges. 20