Instructions for Use
Table Of Contents
- Pentagon six
- Important parts of the camera
- Abridged instructions
- Inserting the film
- The exposure counter
- Film reminder dials
- The finder hood
- The Magnifier-Sportsfinder
- The Pentaprism
- Focusing
- The diaphragm
- Image field lenses
- The rangefinder lens
- The focal plane shutter
- The exposure speeds
- The rapid wind lever
- Delayed action mechanism ‑ shutter release
- Synchronization
- Removing the film
- Exchanging lenses
- Lenses
- Supplementary lenses with automatic diaphragm
- Supplementary lenses without automatic diaphragm
Important parts of the camera
1. Finder hood
2. Rapid wind lever
3. Disconnecting lever
4. Shutter Release
5. Winding lever for delayed action mechanism
6. Flash socket
7. Latch for camera back
8. Spool support
9. Knob for opening the finder hood
10.Frame finder (sports finder)
11.Knob for unlocking finder hood
12.Film type setting dial
13.Speed setting dial
14.Magnifying lens for focusing
15.Locking ring for shutter release
16.Film speed setting dial
17.Exposure counter
18.Milled ring for fixing the lens
19.Lever for checking depth of field
20.Diaphragm setting ring
21.Depth of field scale
22.Focusing ring
23.Tripod socket
There are parts of your Pentagon six which are not to be touched. To prevent an approach, they are inaccessible
without application of force. Yet it is very informative to have a look into this hidden domain, which is made possible
by the cross-sectional view given here. We are thus revealing the secret to which this camera model always is
indisputable singularity. We see the finder system controlling the camera, which is pre-eminently able to make
complications in modern photography so uncomplicated. The system which, in an amazingly simple manner,
combines camera, lens, and accessories in countless variants to form an organic whole and which produces
picture-taking possibilities greater in number and degree of perfection than those of any other type of camera.