Quick Guide

A surface coated mirror reflects the image designed by the lens onto the ground glass screen. At the moment of the exposure the mirror is
swung out the path of rays and, forming a light tight cover over the ground glass, allows the light rays to pass freely on to the image plane.
As soon as the mirror has reached its topmost position, the shutter is opened for the exposure.
Taking lens and finder lens being one and the same, there is no danger of parallax error. Everything that you see in the viewfinder must
necessarily appear on the film, even in extreme close-ups. This renders it possible to use lenses of various focal lengths and intermediate
rings for close-up work without the need for any extra finder attachments.
Inserting the film
You may use any kind of commercially available 120 roll film Fort 12 exposures 6 X 6 cm (21/ X 21/ "). Undo latch (6) and open the
camera back. Place empty spool into the right hand spool chamber and make sure that the driving mechanism catches the spool core. The
bottom spring support has to be slightly pulled away. The full spool is inserted into the left-hand chamber in the same manner.
The leader of the protective paper backing must point in the traveling direction of film. Do not loosen the gumstrip and remove it
completely before the film is held fast in the spool chamber. Pull the paper leader across the picture gate (printed side outwards) and fix it
into the longer slit of the receiving spool.
Swing the rapid wind lever (2) around as far as it will go and continue advancing the film leader by small rocking movements until the
arrow mark stands against the white dot on the picture gate. Now move the rapid wind lever back to its initial position. Tight and even
winding of the film is absolutely necessary to avoid faulty film feed periods. The spring support of the full spool should, therefore, be kept
under slight pressure as a means of checking the wind-off movement of the film. Close the camera back and lock it Depress set back knob
(9) to bring exposure counter (13) to its starting point. A red dot appears in the counter window (13). Release the shutter and cock it again
four times. The number 1 now stands in the counter window.
At every subsequent cocking of the shutter, the counting mechanism advances to the next number. After the twelfth exposure an "E"
becomes visible. Actuate the wind lever smoothly and without interruption as far as it will go; move it back to its original position. Do
not let it jump back.
Setting the film speed indicator
A film speed indicator (8) is built into the camera back. It is adjusted from the interior before the camera is closed.
The finder hood
Push the little knob (7) is on the finder hood housing in the direction of the arrow, thus causing the finder hood (1) to spring into operating
position.
The magnifier
For critical focusing and to facilitate picture composition, a magnifying lens (12) yielding a fourfold enlargement may be swung into
parallel position with the field lens.