Exakta 35mm Guide

Top row: Open camera back (on RTL 1000, pull up rewind knob lully) and insert.film cassette.Seiond row: Attach leader totake-up spool (on RTL 1 000, lay leader across spool after passing underfilm guide). Close camera back.Third- rowi Open finder hood, where applicable. Make two blind exposures. Wind on again and setfilm counter (except on RTL 1000).Eottotn row: iet nim speed indicitor on earlier models (tefi), on RTL 1000 (centre). Set film typeindicator.
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LOADING THE EXA
Top left: Open the camerr back,
Tob cent?a: lnsert the film cessette.
Top right: Fix the film on the teke-up spool.(entre lcft: Closc thc cemcn brck.
Ccntrc: Open the flndcr hood (on Exe I only).
Ccntre right: Advancc the film twice, pressing the release eech time.
Bottont left: Set the film councer for the first exposure (slightly different on thc twomodels),
Sottom ccntre: The path of the film inside the cemera lt winds up emulsionside-out o_nthe teke-up spool 6n the cXA I up to...

Right: The standard reflex finderfitted to all models is used bylooking down on the screen.With Models V, VX, lla, llb, VXand RTL 1000 as well as the Exa Iand la, the viewing unit is inter-changeable with a pentaprismtype, which permits use at eyelevel. In the Exa ll the eyeJevelfinder is fixed.
Eelow: The normal ground screenof the pentaprism finder and alsothe reflex finder of the 1961Exakta lla and llb may be readilyinterchanged with other typesfor special scientific purposes(see page 20).
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PENTAPRISM FINDER. This is for the Exakta RTL 1000. VXS00.lfi)0, rla, b, VX, V and EXA I; it is interchangeable against th6 normaireflex finder and is an extremely valuable alternativelocusing-viewincmethod. To change from the rbflex to the ey+level finder, ihe findeihousing is lifted up bodily and replaced by the other findbr housine,while on EXAKTA VXl0(n, IIa,VX or V the sliding catch on thlfront plate is depressed.With the pentaprism in position, the image is viewed and focused ateye_level and see-n...

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SHOOTING WITH THE EXAKTA
ToP left: Wind film.ToP centre: Set speed.Top right: Focus.Bottom left: Set stop.Eottom centret Release.
sHooTrNG wrTH THE EXA | (t96t)
Top left: Advance the film (with knob or winding lever). Iop right.. Set the shutrerspeed. Sottom left: Focus. Eottom centre: Pre-set rhe apertrrre. Eottom right! Release.
so that the focusing screen is vertical and the eye examines the imageon it at right angles to the object to be photographed. The lens restsin the fork between thumb and index...

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has been loaded with firnr, as instructed on page 13, proceedas follows:
Wind film transport.Set shutter speed.Focus and determine picture frameSet stop.Release.
DELAYED ACTION RELEASE FOR SPEEDS FROM II3O TOr11000 sEC.:(a) Set sh:tter-speed knob to actual exposure time required.(D) Wind slow-speed knob as far as it will possibly turn in a clock.wise direction.(c) Lift slow-speed knob up, tum it so that any red figure comes tolie against the mark on the knob and let knob drop back.*(d) Release...

the effective opening of the lens. The smaller this opening, the greaterthe depth of field (page 52). At the same time, as less light can passthrough the lens in any given time, the exposure time must be longer(page 52). The reduction in light means obviously a reduction inbrightness of the reflex image with an increase of depth of field.Both /oss of lieht and inueased depth of field make the accuratefocusing on the ground-glass more diftcult, therefore reflex focusingshould always be done at full...

UNLOADING THE EXAKTA
7op left: Depress rewind pin on RTL1 000. Top centre: Depress centre of rewind knob, not on RTL1 000.rvPtcfr. vEP,sJ> rvP!gr,!, evP,vTop right: RLwind film inio cassette. Bottorn reft: Open camera back.Eottom centre: RemovecassetteEottom right: Close camera back or reload.
UNLOADTNG THE EXA | (1961)
lcft: Dcpress thc rcversing button. Ccntre: Rcwind thc film. Ritht: QPen.thc -cemcra and remoYcthr cerrdttc. Thc uppqr ro* referr to the Exa ll, che lower row to the Exe | (1961 ).
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advisable to wind off one frame more than actually exposed. Whenmaking blind exposures it is wise-in addition to covering the lens-to stop it right down and to set the shutter to the highest speed.
Cutting Off Exposed Film PartsThe desire to process some of the 36 exposures of the Exakta rvithoutshooting or wasting the whole of the load in the canrcra ntight easilyarise. For that reason all nrodels have been fitted with the built-infilm cutting knife described on page 32. This can be used for cutting...