Minolta Weathermatic-A Owner's Manual page 11

For head-to-hips pictures of people (at 2m or 7 ft.), set the knob so the index is opposite
the dot.
The symbol focuses the lens for 1.2m (4 ft.), at which you can see from the top of the
head to about mid-chest in the finder.
At the symbol that looks a "*" open at the top, the camera is focused for close head-to-
shoulder portraits at 90cm (3 ft.).
Depth-of-field
Depth-of-field table on the right indicates the exact focusing range at each focus-
symbol setting.