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We hope that you will obtain as much enjoyment from it as all the many LEICA fans in every country of the globe. As a LEICA owner you have the benefit of a universal photographic system, which also covers the technical and scientific field.
Not For Resale – Free Download at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/joechan/manuals Contents Page Page Description of the LEICA M 4-2....4 The LEICA system Fitting the carrying strap.......6 The exposure meter........23 How to hold the LEICA.........6 The interchangeable lenses.......24 The bright-line measuring viewfinder ...8 LEICA M 4-2 winder........25...
Not For Resale – Free Download at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/joechan/manuals 1 Automatic frame counter 7 Lens bayonet lock 2 Shutter release button 8 Red locating knob for lens insertion 3 Rapid transport lever 9 Accessory shoe with flash contact 4 Film rewind release 10 Depth-of-field scale 5 Shutter speed dial 11 Distance scale...
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Not For Resale – Free Download at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/joechan/manuals 13 Window illuminating the bright-line 19 Baseplate lock frames 20 Contact bush for flashbulbs 14 Field-of-view selector 21 Contact bush for electronic flash units 15 Viewfinder field window 22 Film indicator (takes ball-pen writing) with DIN/ASA comparison scale 16 Folding rewind crank 17 Carrying-strap eyelets...
Not For Resale – Free Download at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/joechan/manuals Fitting the carrying strap The eyelets (17) are provided for fitting the Thread the leather holders through the slots carrying strap. Release the double d-back in the metal parts and secure them with the length of leather from the round part of the round part of the shackle.
Not For Resale – Free Download at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/joechan/manuals How to hold the LEICA For upright views all you have to do is to For steady three-point support hold your rotate the camera through 90°. The position camera with your right hand, your index...
The bright-line measuring viewfinder The bright-line measuring viewfinder of the 21-135mm focal length are coupled with the LEICA M4-P has been designed to combine rangefinder on insertion in the LEICA. the functions of a coupled rangefinder and When lenses of 28 (from serial No.
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Not For Resale – Free Download at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/joechan/manuals The field-of-view selector The field-of-view selector (14) functions as a universal viewfinder; it enables the LEICA owner at any time to reflect into the viewfinder field the frames outlining the fields-of-view other than that of the lens that happens to be in the camera.
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Not For Resale – Free Download at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/joechan/manuals The rangefinder Coincidence (double image) focusing: in portraiture, for instance, focus on the The measuring field of the rangefinder highlight in the sitter's eye. Observe the appears in the centre of the viewfinder as subject through the viewfinder and rotate a bright, sharply outlined oblong.
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Not For Resale – Free Download at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/joechan/manuals The rapid winding lever (3) at each full The shutter speed dial (5) controls the lever movement transports the film through shutter speed and can be set either before frame, winds shutter or after the shutter is wound.
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Not For Resale – Free Download at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/joechan/manuals The LEICA lenses have a fixed ring with depth-of-field scale (10), a rotatable ring for setting the focusing distance (11) and an iris diaphragm ring (12). The distance scale The distance scale (11) indicates the dis- down;...
Not For Resale – Free Download at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/joechan/manuals The depth-of-field scale The lens reproduces at maximum sharp- The depth-of-field scale indicates the ness the plane, parallel to the film, on depth-of-field zone for the object distance which focused. This maximum on which the lens is focused.
Not For Resale – Free Download at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/joechan/manuals Inserting the lens Taking out the lens The red knob on the lens mount (8) must Grip the rear, fixed ring (10) of the lens. face the red dot on the camera body. After Depress arresting button (7), rotate the a short turn to the right the lens will lens to the left and take it out.
Not For Resale – Free Download at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/joechan/manuals Flash synchronization The LEICA M 4-P accepts all flash units on Flash units and adapters without cable connection can be connected through the the market with standard flash plugs (coaxial plug) or with accessory-shoe "X"...
Not For Resale – Free Download at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/joechan/manuals Electronic flash AG 1 Flash Cubes AG 3 XM 1 Flash table XM 5 GE 5 X = Contact or accessory shoe electronic flash M = Contact for flashbulbs...
Not For Resale – Free Download at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/joechan/manuals Inserting the film First make sure, by turning the rewind crank Take the camera in your left hand, base- plate (16) in the direction of the arrow, that the facing you. Pull out the toggle in the baseplate camera is empty.
* Only at temperatures below freezing must the film be when bulk film is used, the film is liable to tear off, when it inserted in the LEICA according to the diagrammatic will have to be removed from the take-up spool.
LEICA lenses act like burning glasses if the Dust should be removed with a soft sable LEICA lies with the lens face upwards in full brush, a piece of cotton cloth (e.g. a hand- sunlight. You must therefore protect the...
Not For Resale – Free Download at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/joechan/manuals Exposure meter The LEICA system The LEICAMETER® exposure meter can be coupled with the LEICA M 4-P for aimed exposure measurement. clearly outlined measuring field LEICAMETER corresponds to the picture area 90mm LEICA lenses.
Interchangeable lenses Besides the lenses of 28 to 135 mm focal The optical units of the 135 mm lenses can be lengths the LEICA owner has a whole range unscrewed and used for ground-glass screen of interchangeable lenses of shorter and focusing with the VISOFLEX 3 and on the longer focal lengths at his command.
3 fps disconnected batteries can be connected to the LEICA M 4-P. It is exhausted the film and the shutter can also attached to the bottom of the camera be wound manually. Remote control via the housing in place of the baseplate.
The long-focal-length telephoto lenses of The Focusing Bellows II permits the use of 200mm focal length and more, the 65mm almost all the LEICA lenses. High mag- ELMAR® f/3.5, and the optical units of the nifications are possible with the 35 and...
Lens hoods Camera cases Various lens hoods of functional design are For the LEICA with standard lens the ever- available for the range of LEICA lenses. ready case (Code No. 14546) is recom- Some of them can be reversed on the lens.
Not For Resale – Free Download at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/joechan/manuals Reproduction Enlargers A high-quality camera such as the LEICA calls for an enlarger of matching perfor- mance if this quality is not to be wasted. LEITZ have offer two well-tried top-quality models with automatic focusing, the 35mm- only FOCOMAT®...
Not For Resale – Free Download at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/joechan/manuals Projectors A large selection of projectors is available depending on the user's preference and purposes. They are extremely convenient to operate and can be adapted to a versatile range of uses. The most outstanding common characteristic of all LEITZ pro- jectors is their unsurpassed optical per- formance coupled with traditional LEITZ...
P.O.B. 2027 D-6330 Wetzlar Germany or your national LEITZ Agency. Enclosed with every LEICA is a free voucher for sample copies of "LEICA Each LEICA camera is accompanied by a FOTOGRAFIE", the topical magazine of list of the LEITZ Agencies. Cases of...
The LEITZ Information Service The LEICA School The LEITZ Information Service is available The LEICA School is part of the service from 8 to 12 a. m. and 1 to 4 p. m. from given by Leitz. It was established to meet...
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