Voigtlander Vito Cd Instructions For Use

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VITO CD
24 x 36- 35 mm
1 Distqnce scqle with 3,point settings
2 Depth of field scqle
3 Shutter speed scqle
4 Exposure vqlue setling lever
5 Bqck lock
6 Shutler speed ring
7 Scqle ring with operture ondexposure vofue figures
8 Releqse
9 Exposure meler - see poge 4
l0 Film indicotor in rewind knob
t I Flqsh sockel
12 Cqble releqse socket
t 3 Exposure vqlues with setting index
14 Self-timer lensioning lever
15 Film counler with setting button
16 Tripod bush 

Confenfs:pogeSetting the film speed 2
lnserting the film 2
Setting the film counter 3
Thefilmindicotor ....... 3
Setting the exposure ... 4-5
Setiing the distonce .... 6Aperture qnd depih of field 7
Finder - releose - ropid winding lever . .. . I
Unlooding lhe comero 9Chonging portly exposed films . I
Self-timer - flosh shots . ]0-1]
Meter reodings in o nutshell ... . 12-13
Close-ups with Focor lenses 14,-15
Filters
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Getting the Camera Reodf . . . with Every New Film
I Siling the film speed - Turn the setting control (k) on the exposure meter (seepoge 4) to the leff or right until the film speed figure is opposite the blockindex mork on the oppropriote scole. For exomple, sei it to 32, correspondingto 32 ASA; or lo 17, corresponding to 17 degrees DlN.
I This film speed setting is essentiol lo ensure correci exposures with the outomoticI exposure conlrol.
I tnserting the film - Press together the locking cotches (5)...

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Setting rhe film counter - Turn{he milled button (15)until lhe diqmond I mork (for o 36-exposure cossette -
illustrotion o) or the O mork (with o 20-exposure cossette- illustrotion c) is opposite the red dot. Alternotelyoperote ihe ropid winding lever ond the releose untilihe film counter indicqtes No. 36 (illustrotion b) or No. 20(illustrofion d) for the first exposure.
From this point onwords the film counter oulomoticollyshows lhe number of shols still ovoiloble every time thefilm is odvonced....

Seffing the Exposure o o i Shutter Speed qnd Aperture
Shutter speed ring
Setting index Ifor the exposure voluesScole ring with operture ondexposure volue figuresSetting index Ifor the operture-speed combinotion
Indicotor windovr of exposure meter
Milled ring to turn the red settingpointer in the window (e)Window showing the exposirre volueobtqined
DIN filnn speed scole
ASA film speed scqle
Controlfor setfing the DIN qnd ASA figures 

I Toting lhe meler reoding - Turn the milled ring (f) - preferobly with the thumb from behind - to line up both pointers in the window (e). Do ihis whilepointing the comero oi the subiect. For speciol hints see poges 12 to 13.
The exposure meter does nol cover brightness ronges in which the pointers connolbe lined up becouse of insufficient or too intense light.
) Sefiing the exposure - Reod off the exposure volue figure obtoined (or inter- medioJe volue) in the window (g). Set this volue on the red...

Simpfe Dislsnce Seffings
ln oddition to the ocluol djstonce figures, the distonce scole (1) olso corriesthe following red symbols for eosy 3-poini settings:
o = PORTRAITS - sublect distqnce 4t/qfeet
V = GROUPS - subiect distonce ll feet
O = VIEWS - subiect distonce 33 feet
According to your subiect, sei the distonce scole simply fo one of these threesymbols. This gives you, omong others; the following depth of field zones:
Aperture Io (41lr feet)[ (11 feet)
f /5.6flBf /11
3/t to 5 ft.3r/, lo 51/ett.3t/t...

Aperlure clnd Depth of Field
The depth of field zone depends on the operture setting, ond covers thot pori
of the subiect qreo in front of, ond behind, the focused distonce, which is
reproduced on ihe film with occeptoble shorpness. Note thot:
lorge operlures (e. g.t2.8) yield limited deprh of field;
smoll opertures (e. g. fil6) yield greoter depth of field.
Reoding off the depth of field - After seiting the distonce, hold ihe comero
in such o wqy thot you con see lhe operture figures on the depth of...