Flexaret Automat Manual
A friend just found an old Flexaret VI TLR and I haven't tried it yet. I'm wondering how the aperture is set. And, what's the 'automat' mean. There's nothing auto that I can tell.The shutter speed is straight forward but the aperture rung has numbers 3 to 18 equally spaced on it and there is some kind of linkage between the shutter setting and the aperture. Great battles of rome. If I set the shutter to 1/500 then the aperture will only go from 12-18.
If I fiddle so that the shutter is at 1sec then the aperture can only go from 3 to 8.The focus has two arms on it that presumably show you the depth of field but it has a more familiar F-stop scale from 3.5 to 22.The taking lens is marker as 3.5/80 and is a Prontor SVS.Whoa! I just noticed the F stops marked on the side of the lens. I think I understand. The shutter and aperture are linked so you can changed the shutter speed and it adjusts the f-stop to compensate.I still don't know what the numbers 2-18 mean then.If I set the shutter to 1/125 and aperture to f-16 the other scale shows 15. If I changed the shutter to 1/250 then the aperature goes to f11 as it should and the other scale is at 15 still.I guess it's time to give it a try but I'd apreaciate any information.By the way, the camera takes 120 film but has an adaptor and mask to use 35mm.
It's missing one little part that let's you rewind the film so if I did want to try 35mm I'd have to reqind in the darkroom.I posted another thread here about the Kodacolor -X film I found in it and how I developed it in B&W chemicals. A friend just found an old Flexaret VI TLR and I haven't tried it yet.
I'm wondering how the aperture is set. And, what's the 'automat' mean. There's nothing auto that I can tell.The shutter speed is straight forward but the aperture rung has numbers 3 to 18 equally spaced on it and there is some kind of linkage between the shutter setting and the aperture. If I set the shutter to 1/500 then the aperture will only go from 12-18. If I fiddle so that the shutter is at 1sec then the aperture can only go from 3 to 8.The focus has two arms on it that presumably show you the depth of field but it has a more familiar F-stop scale from 3.5 to 22.The taking lens is marker as 3.5/80 and is a Prontor SVS.Whoa! I just noticed the F stops marked on the side of the lens. I think I understand.
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The shutter and aperture are linked so you can changed the shutter speed and it adjusts the f-stop to compensate.I still don't know what the numbers 2-18 mean then.If I set the shutter to 1/125 and aperture to f-16 the other scale shows 15. If I changed the shutter to 1/250 then the aperature goes to f11 as it should and the other scale is at 15 still.I guess it's time to give it a try but I'd apreaciate any information.By the way, the camera takes 120 film but has an adaptor and mask to use 35mm. It's missing one little part that let's you rewind the film so if I did want to try 35mm I'd have to reqind in the darkroom.I posted another thread here about the Kodacolor -X film I found in it and how I developed it in B&W chemicals. This camera links the shutter speed and aperture so you can work by EV number (Exposure Value).
But you don't have to if you don't want to work that way. The button tab that allows you to change EV numbers can be pressed towards the body of the camera.
Flexaret Automat Manual 2016
When you do press it down like that, the EV coupling is disconnected, and you can easily set aperture or shutter speed independently of each other, as on any manual camera. The actual aperture is indicated near the EV numbers, but on the rim of the lens housing itself. Look, you can't miss them. 'Automat' refers to the same thing it does in the Rolleiflex Automat: the film advance system. Hpw to set exposure in Flexaret VIII bought a Flexaret VII on the front of the camera around the lens, looking frontally there are 3 signs-lever you can rotate:1. A triangular black one on the right2. A round, red on the left3.
A triangular black that can be also shifted frontally to unlock one of the ringsMy question is:WICH ONE OF THESE SIGNES MUST BE ALIGNED to the value chosen?To be even more explicit:HOW DO I KNOW I CHOSED A SPECIFIC VALUE, FOR EXAMPLE 1/125 EXPOSURE?I downloaded english manual But i still don't understand.Thanks, best regards. I bought a Flexaret VII on the front of the camera around the lens, looking frontally there are 3 signs-lever you can rotate:1. A triangular black one on the right2. A round, red on the left3. A triangular black that can be also shifted frontally to unlock one of the ringsMy question is:WICH ONE OF THESE SIGNES MUST BE ALIGNED to the value chosen?To be even more explicit:HOW DO I KNOW I CHOSED A SPECIFIC VALUE, FOR EXAMPLE 1/125 EXPOSURE?I downloaded english manual But i still don't understand.Thanks, best regards. Click to expand.The red lever used to select the flash modes: Bulb (M position) and Electronic (A position). It also serves to activate the Self-Timer (V position).The right lever is used to select the shutter speed.
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To use it you have to move and hold out the left lever.The left lever is used to select the aperture. Also be used to select the EV numbers.On the outside of the ring around the lens are different inscriptions: apertures, speed index and flash modes / self-timer.If you are willing to use the translator, I leave the link where I wrote a small article in a forum in my country:Regards & Sorry for the traslation.