AGFA Optima 500 Manual

							
Photogrophy is more .fun
when you hqve mosiered the three points mentioned ond
ore lhoroughly fomilior with your comero ioo.
Firsi of oll, something obout films ond how to choose them:
Firsi use Agfo lsopon F, l7 DIN (40 ASA). It is o fine-groin
blcck-ond-whiie film of good contour shorpness ond con-
sislent quoliiy.
For sport photogrophy the ropid Agfo lsopon ISS film,
2l DIN (,l00 ASA), is iust risht.
With Agfocolor films you con explore ihe world of col-
our. These films hove been firm fovourites for more thon
twenty-five yeors, becouse of their noturol reproduction
of boih postel ond brilliont colours. In oddition, their
high speed hos mode the living snopshot in colour q
procticol reolity.
For shorp, brilliqnt colour tronspqrencies:
Agfocolor Reversql Film CT18.
For wonderful olbum colour prints:
Agfocolor Negotive Film CN 17 or CN.l4. 
						

							
The film con be looded in doy-light, but olwoys in the shode-moking use of body shodow.
First open the comero bock bYsliding cotch in direction oforrow.
Push locking buiton of rewindknob in direciion of orrow ond
drow oui rewind knob firmlywith left hond os for os pos-
sible.
Now set the film type indicotorby turning the milled edge Pro-iruding ot the bottom of therewind knob until the desiredsetting oppeors in the window:
Block ond white checks: Block ond while film
CN = Colour negotive film
CT = Colour reversol film,DAY doylight tyPe
CK : Colour reversol film, ortificiolA liqht lype (incondescenllo.-rnps6f 3400o Kelvin)
CF : Colour reversol film, ortificiolF floshlight tYPe (3800o Kelvin)
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Insert new film cosselte wiihhole lowords rewind knob.
Push bock rewind knob, if nec-essory turning slightly bock-words ond forwords.
Turn loke-up spool by its mill-ed disk until the brood slit ondfilm perforotion lug ore upper-mosf.Drow out ihe film from thecossette lowords the toke-upspoor.lnsert ihe end of the film in theslit, holding the toke-up spool
firmly, so thot the lug engogesin the second film perforotion.
Now iurn the toke-up spool onslighily in the direction of theorrow, os shown in figure F, un-til iust under holf on inch ofthe full film width proiects fromthe cosseite.
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for the firsl exPosure
posures still left on the film
Every time the film is moved on the rewind knob roiotes in the opposite direction to thot
shown by the orrow,  t1lg thot the film is properly looded ond tronsported
Double exposures imPossible
An ingenious double *oJrrr prevention.mechonism ensures thot you do nottoke iwo
photogrophs on one niiiu.inoial,ion the film connoi be tronsported uniil on exposure
hos been mode.
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lmporlonl:
Remember to set the speed of the film
looded on the comero lo be sure of cor.
reclly exposed phologrophs.
To do this, push in the smoll orresting knob
ond iurn the milled disk wiih ihe oid of o
coin uniil the required DIN or ASA speed
is opposite the setting mork.
for qll films
from ll-25 DIN (10-250 ASA)
When you press ihe mogic releose
bution, the exposure reoding is
outomolicolly ond invisibly fixed for
you. During the exposure it then
outomolicolly orronges o shutter
speed ond operture combinqtion
which olwoys ensures the correct
exposure. 
						

							
on this Poge).
Tirne exPosures
Turn the milled ring on the lens mount until B
is in line with the mork, os shown in the top
lilustrotion. When on this setting ihe shutter
sioys open os long os the releose bution is
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;1:;; is odvisqble in such coses The loiter
ir t.t*a into the ihreod below the releosefria tr.t the side By turning the reor milled
iglL ofurtr, become visible in the smoll
window.
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No floshlight problems
For flosh work turn the ouiomqtic mechqnismring uniil the flosh symbol is opposite thewhite mork.
A constont shutter speed of llgo sec. is usedfor flosh work. Pleose see the column for ,,X,
synchronizotion on eoch pocket of flosh bulbsfor ihe required operture which is set by turn-ing ihe reor milled ring. The plug of the floshcoble is connected io the flosh contoct ll2.moin illusirotion).
Eleclronic floshguns con qlso be used, in whichcose ihe operiure is cqlculqted from the guidenumber of the floshgun.
E. g. guide number of electronic floshgun 96divided by o distonce of l2 feet = operiure f/8.The hondy Agfolux floshgun
in zip cose 
						

							
Where cleor detoil is required in. photogrophs ioken
nfttt tft fight or in deep shodows th.e ,outomotic
mechonism of ihe comero con still be used with.the setting
. lfl DIN/ASA scole reduced lt is odvisoble to sef o
iirn toa of obout 3 DIN or iis ASA equivoleni less thon
int titf.a on the film pockoge lf for exomple the film
in thu.o.ro hos o speed of 17 DIN : 40 ASA the set-
iig tL.ufa be reduced to 14 DIN : 20 ASA
WhenoVerycontrostysubiecthqstobephotogrophed
a-;i it wirna io obtoin ihe correct exposure for on
rl.i *r,lrln is smoll in comporison wilh iis,surroundings
it-i, oauitoUt to toke whot is known os o close-up meos
t-r*i *itf-r the built-in exposure meier of .the comero
lf this is not done, o person in o light dress in froni of o
Jonk wood (io give on exomple) could eosily produce on
incorrect reoding.
ln such coses opprooch with the comero to o short distonce
it.tln subieci ond press down the releose bufion to the
;;;;;;J;J-poiit. Hoia tnu button in this position ond
return to you, o,gnol position to toke the photogroph
A leoiher cose. designed
;; i:k; ; lens ho.od, ond
two filters is ovolloble
Filters for Your OPtimo
for block ond while PhotogroPhY
Reduce DINscole settingby
Iioht vellow 1 DIN
*diut Yllo* 2 DIN
yellow-gieen 2 DIN
UV fi lter (ultro-violei)no chonge
for sPeciol PhotogroPhswith colour leversol lllm
Aqfo Color FilierRi.5 no chonge
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Filters
There is o voriety of filtersfor blqck ond whit6 film ovoil-oble for use with ihe AofoOpiimo 500 in screw mor-iltsof 35.5 mm diom. As soon osq filter is used on the comercryou will hove to reduce thesetting..on.the film speed scoleqccoro Ing ly.
A filter hovinq o focior of 2will require 6 reduciion inthe speed settinq of 3 DINor its ASA equivdlent. lf youhove o film of 17 DIN- :
- 40 ASA this meons thot you
						

							
The film is now finished .. .
After 36 or 20 exposures, occording to the length
of the film, the ropid tronsport lever will not
move. The film is now finished ond must be re-
wound into its cossette.
First releose the lock of the rewind knob (see
illustrotion B, poge 8) to ollow ihis fo spring out
ond drow it out only o froction to its first stop
Then press in the locking button in.the. bose.,of
the comerq snd turn the rewind knob in the
Jirection shown by the orrow Rewinding is
.omplutu when the rewind knob turns freely
oftei releosing the locking button You.cqn
no* opn the bock of the comero by pushing
the cqfch in the direciion shown by the qrrow (see fiS { pqg 8) Pull out the rewind
knob firmly os for os it will go ond remove ihe cossetie Pui the cossetie in ifs lighi-tighl
pocking ond mork it os exPosed
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