User manual HARTBLEI HORIZON

[. . . ] It should be handled carefully, kept clean and protected from jolts, dust, moisture and sharp temperature fluctuations. Do not remove the camera from its case the moment it is brought indoors from cold to avoid sweating of its parts, especially optical ones. Do not touch the surfaces of the optical parts with fingers since it may damage their coatings. Clean the coated optical surfaces with a clean soft cloth or cotton wool wad slightly moistened with rectified alcohol or ether. [. . . ] -- Insert the film leader into the slot of the take-up spool and draw the film back on to the film gate. Make sure that the sprocket tooth engage a film perforation hole. Reel the appeared loop on the take-up spool rotating shutter cocking lever 2. The film should be placed on film channel guides 16 without skewing. -- Close the back door 20 tightly pressing it to make the lock latch. -- To transport a nonexposed portion of film to the film gate, cock and fire the shutter once again. When cocking the shutter for the second time the frame counter should be set at , , !", the latter being positioned approximately in the centre of exposure counter window 12. The shutter is cocked by turning smoothly lever 2 counter-clockwise to its fullest extent and released by pressing release button 11. Should the film be wound tightly in the cassette, the film rewind knob will rotate when the shutter is being cocked. If the film is loose in the cassette, the rewind knob will fail to rotate at the first frames. Automatic frame counter shows the number of the frame being positioned against the film gate. Put the film box label with film speed indicated on it, into film check pocket 24. Operating Mode Setting Shutter Speed Setting Turn operating mode selection switch 7 to set the required shutter speed range from 2 to 8 or 60 to 250; set lever 9 against the required shutter speed value. Eeach position of the lever is click-stopped. Aperture Setting Set aperture setting lever 10 opposite to the required aperture value. Each position of the lever is click-stopped. At exposure determining to obtain pictures of higher quality the aperture should be smaller and shutter speed longer. Shutter speed and aperture should be set only with the shutter cocked. Depth of Field of the Lens The MC 2. 8/28 fixed built-in lens has no distancescale. To determine the depth of field, make use of the table set forth below. For example, with aperture set at 8, the depth of field will be from 2 m to infinity. Depth of Field Table for the HORIZON-202 Camera Lens Aperture 2. 8 4 5. 6 8 11 16 Depth of field, m 5. 5--oo 3. 9--oo 2. 9--oo 2 --oo 1. 5--oo 1 --oo Picture Taking Cock the shutter. When shooting hold the camera in the way shown in the picture Be sure that the frame is not blocked by your fingers. [. . . ] Try to rotate the crank smoothly, without jerks and not too fast to avoid traces of static electricity on film. -- Pull film rewind knob 5 all the way out; open the back door. Remove the cassette, holding the film rewind knob. If necessary, the camera can be unloaded after exposing any number of frames, having rewound the film into the cassette beforehand. [. . . ]