Voigtlander Vito C Instructions For Use

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vtTo c a24 x36 - 35 mm
, I Aperture ring wiih lever
2 Bqck lock
3 Dislqnce scqle
with 3-point setting
4 Depth of field scqle
5 Shutter speed ring
with shuiter speed scole
6 Shutler releqse
7 Film indicqtor
to show the type of film
looded in the comero
8 Coble releqse socket
9 Flosh sockel
l0 Self-timer
ll Tripod bush
12 Film counter wiih setting button
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is the most importont piece of odvice in this corefullyprepored booklet: pleose reod il thoroughly beforeyou do onything else. Prociice mokes perfect: so tryout the vorious comero controls without o film inthe comero.
Remember olso thot the VITO C, though very robust,is on opticol ond mechonicol precision instrument.It iherefore needs gentle ond sensible hondling. Thecornero will repoy coreful treotment with perfeclpictures for mony yeors to come.
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Confenfs:
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Preporing lhe comero 2
Unlooding . chonging portly exposedfilms 3
Setting the exposure . ... . .. : .. . . 4
Aperture ond depth of field 5
Setting the distonce . ...
Finder . releose . ropid winder 7
Self-timer flqsh shots . &- 9
Focorlenses .....; 10-ll
Filters . .. . .. 12
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Gel*ing the Camers Reody . o . wirh Every New Film
I Inserting lhe film. Press.together the lockingcotches (2i ond open the comero bqck. Push the f ilm reversing lever (.|5) to the left, ond f u lly pu ll out therewind knob (.|3) which springs up (see illustrotion 3). Push the film leoder intothe slit of the toke-up spool qnd qnchor it to the hook (20 und 24) witho perforotion hole. Drow ihe cossette qcross the film trock, insert it in thecossefte chomber (15) ond fully push bock the rewind knob. The...

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Unlosding the Camersqfter the lqst Exposure
Rewinding qnd removing fte film. Push the reversing lever (.|5) to the left,f etting the rewind knob (21) iump up. Turn the knob in the direction of theorrow until the I or the O mork reoppeqrs in the film counter window. Thenopen the comero bock, fully pull ouf the rewind knob, ond remove the cossette.
Changing Partly Exposed Films
With the VITO C you con olwoys remove o portly exposed film ond chonge itfor onofher one (for instonce to switch over from...

Seffing the Exposure. . . Shutter Speed ond Aperture
I Sefiing the shuller speed. Rotote the shutter speed ring (5) until the red lineclicks into posiiion opposite the required exposure time.
The exposure times from 1/zso second Io 1/so second ore outomoticolly timed bVthe shutter. When set to B the shutter remqins open qs long qs you keep thereleose depressed. For such time exposure (support the comero firmly ormount ii on o tripod) use q coble releose which screws into the socket (B).
I Seiling the...

Aperture ond DePth of Field
The depth of field zone depends on the operlur.e setting, gn{ covers thot port
oi th subiect qreo in front of, qnd behind the focused distonce, which is
reproduced on the film with occeptoble shorpness. Note thot:
lorge operlures (e.g. tn.B yield limited depth of field;
smqll opertures (e.g. tl16) yield greoler depth of field. .
I neoaing off the depth of field. - After hoving set the distonce (see next pcge) hold th; comero so thot you con reod the operture mqrks on the...

Seffing the DisfonGe . . . by Simple Symbols
The distonce scole (3) corries the following red symbols for three-point distoncesettings between the distonce figures:
o :- PORTRAITS - subiect distqnce 4tlcfeet
Y = GROUPS - subiect distonce 11 feet
C = VIEWS - subiect distonce 33 feet.
According to your subiect, set the distonce scole simply to one of these threesymbols. This gives yoU, qmong olhers, the following depth of field Zoo€s:
Apertureo (4rln feet)V (11 feet)C (33 feet)
f t5.6flBf t11
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