ZEISS IKON Contaflex Super B User manual

zElss
lloN zElss
ll(oN
Instruction
manual
Gontaller
h*, -fu9
GontaffiB

21
20
22 Keyto controls
1 locking cqtch for chonging the 35,85 ond ll5 mm
I
enses
2 Key for engoging ond disengoging the outomotic
exposurecontrol, olso for setting
the operture ond
the flqsh control.
3 Ffcsh guide-number scole for ZEISS
TESSARf12.8,50
wornrng secrors
Relractoble rewind crank
Knob for odiusting lhe film-lype reminder disc
Film-type reminder disc
Film plone indicotor
Ropid-wind lever for shutter tensioning ond
I
I
10
11
12
It
,I
I
t
t
rf
l9r\$
17
18
19
20
21
22
I
I
I
film 1
winding
13 Frome counler
14 Releqse
knob with threqd for coble releose
15 Depth-of-field scole with distonce-setting
mork
16 Aperture-settingscole (monuol) for use when oulo-
control is disengoged
Shutter-speed setfing mork
Shuiler-speed
scole with sefting grips
ZEISSTESSARt12.8,50
mm interchongeoble
lens
Film speed scole (ASA)
Film speed setting mork
Filter corrector
Reference
numbers 23-39 refer to the illustrotion on
the reor cover
flop.
23 Film-speed setting ring ond dull weqfher/bocklight
correclor
I'
4
12

;_1For
your
own
pleasure
and
enioyment
in this fine photogrophic insfru-
f
',. menf, we urge you to reod these
nstructions
thoroughly ond proc-
, I tice hondlingyour new comero
be-
.1'! fore looding your first film. Fold
out the inner flops so thot os you
reod you con eosilysee
eoch
con-
trol ond ,eoch reference number.
Proctice
every operotion until you
ore
fomilior
with it so
lhot loter
on
you con operole the comero with-
out difficulty.
Consull your photo-
grophic deoler on ony photogro-
phic problems;
the Photo
Advisory
Service (Fotoberotung) of ZETSS
IKON AG., 7000 Stuttgort, Postfoch
540,
will olso
be hoppy
to
supply
od-
viceond informoiion
free
of chorge.
24 Setting mork for dull weother/bocklight correclor
25 Couplingdog for engoging the film cossette
26 Film-cqssetfe chomber (with boffle, which must be
removed
when usinglhe interchongeoblefilm bock)
2? Seiling lever for deloyed-cction releose (V) ond X
flosh synchronizotion;used in coniunctionwith
locking key 34
28 Grip for setting operture.ond flosh guide-numbers
in coniunction
with key 2
29 Seiling mqrk for rewinding
30 Comero bqck cotches
31 Tripod bushing
32 Setting mork (red stroke) for flosh guide-numbers
when
using
ZEISSPRO-TESSAB
35mm
wide-onglelens
33 Flqsh guide-number scole for ZEISS PRO-TESSAR
35 mm lens
3tl Locking key for setting lever 27
35 Toothed sprockel wheels for engoging the film
oerforotions
36 Toke-up spool with slot ond lug for securingthe
film leoderlongue
37 Viewfinder eyepiece
BB Eyelers
for neckstrop
39 Accessory shoe
Ss

K
Loading
and
unloading
Removing
the camera back
Fold
both cotches30upwords
ond turn them in opposite
directions.
Then tqke off cqmero bock. Before looding
thefilm,
tension
the comero
by swinging
the ropid-wind
lever 12 until it slops.
Loading
the film
Never lood film in direct sunlight.
Shode
the film with
your body if necessory.
Removethe toke-up spool 36
ond insert
the beginning
of the film leoder
tongue
into
the slot; hook the lug into the 2nd or 3rd perforotion
hole.
Wind the film twice oround the spool qnd hold it
in position. Insert
the film spool ond the cossette
into
the comero, so thot the perforotions engoge with the
toothedsprocket
wheels
35 on either side of the film.
Ploce
the comero bock in position from obove, so thot
obout
holf the
width of thefilm is still
visible.
Then
slide
the bockright home ond lock it. Fold flot cotches
30.
lmportant: set the
Note the DIN or
the film corton.
Press
the locking
until it stops (see
film speed (Fig.
I
)
ASA index respectively
indicoted on
cotch in the direction of the orrow
illustrotion)
ond set the setting
mork
21 on ring 23 obove the oppropriote figure on the film
speedscol
e 20. :
Settingthe frame counter and checking the film advance
(Fig.
2)
Alwoys set the white mork on the block knurled ring
of the ropid-wind lever 12 to the number of exposures
on your film, plus lhree. Use the red morks for 20:
ond 36-exposure
film cossettes.
Use l5 for 12-exposure
rolls.
Fold
.out
the rewind cronk 8 ond turn it corefully in the
d
irection of the orrow until o slight resistonce
is felt.
The
film will then be wound tightly in the cossette.
Finolly,olternotely press releose knob l4 ond operote
ropid-windlever'12
twice,so thot the white mork indi-
cotes the octuol number of exposures
on your film.
Note thot the rewind cronk rototes
of its own occord in
theopposite
direction
to thqt
indicoted
by
theorrow:
this
ollows you to check
thot the film is being odvonced
correctly.

The frome counter
olwoys showsthe number of fr:omes
still to:be exposed.After the lost exposure (when
the
counter indicotes
I
), the ropid-wind lever l2 will ceose
fo operote or o distinctresistonce
will be felt holf-woy
through o stroke.The film must then be rewound (see j
next poge) -t* RA,u.hCuAdr
Setthe film-type reminderdisc l0 by meonsof knob 9. /*--
This disc octs solely os on oid to remind you whot'-
typeoffi|misinyourcomero.Thesymbolsonthefi|m.
type reminder
discsignify:
Inf
ro-red
film
: Color reversol
(tungsten
type)
: Color reversol
(flosh type)
: Color negotive
: Color reversol
(doylisht type)
=: Block-ond-white
film
3
Focusing
with split-imoge
ronge finder
Taking
pictures
4
Focusing
with ground-gloss
nng
film
film
film
film
After the lost exposure, lift the left-hond bock-locking
cotch
30 ond set it to 'R'.
Extend
the rewind cronk
8 ond turn it in the direction
of
the
orrow until
o chongein resistonce
is felt (indicoting
the
film coming
f
ree
from the
toke-up
spool).
Now open
both bock-locking
cotches,
pull off the comero bock
ond remove
the f
ilm cossette.
Alwoys keep the toke-up spool ond the film trock per-
fectly
cleon.
I
Setting the distance
(Focusing)
(Fiss.
3 ond 4)
Operote the ropid-wind lever so thot the shutter is
tensioned.
Hold the comero up to your eye ond tu;n
the finger-grips
5 until the split-imoge
segments
visible
in the center
of the viewfinder field line up occurotely;
for subiects
with no cleorly-definedlines,
odiust the
focus
until
the imoge oppeors
shorp
within the ground-
gloss
ring.
The
distoncefocused
upon is then indicoted
on scole
4 by the setting mork .|5.
Aperture and depth of field (Fig.
5)
Every photogrophic lens will form o shorp imoge of
obiects
within o limited
distonce
in front of ond behind
the obiect focusedupon. This "depth of field" becomes

greoter the more the lens is stopped down (lorger ft
stop numbers);
its extent
(ot individuoloperture
stops)
is shown on the depth-of-f
ield sco
le .|5.
Exomple
(see
fig.5)
: Distonce
setting20 ft
Depth of field ot f/8:
from l0 ft to oo
Remember:
Lorge operture (f/2.8)
- smqll depth of field
Smqll operture (Il22l - mqximum depth of field
For
exocting
photogrophic
work, occurote
depth of field
volues
will be found in the toble on the reor cover
ftop.
Setting
the shutter speed (Fig.6)
To odiust the shutter
speed,
turn ring l
B by meons
of
the two finger grips to set the desired shutter-speed
volue opposite the setting mork 17.The speed selected
will olso be visible in the bottom right corner of the
viewfinder.
t0
The correct
shutter
speeddepends
on the movement
of
the subiect.
Thefqsterthe subiectis moving,
the briefer
must be the exposuretime. The figures on the scole l8
signify froctions of seconds (50 is 1160second, 125 is
11125
second,
etc.).
* 4\ At "8"
, the shutter remoins open
t --releose
knob 14remoins
depressed.
\__-
Delayed-action
exposures
First
tension
shutterwith rqpid-wind
lever
12,thenmove
the setting lever 27 to "V"
. Approximotely l0 seconds
ofter operoting the releose,
the shutter
will open ond
closeoutomoticolly.
The lever
27will then return
to "X".
1 Time exposures
of the "B" settingconnot be mode with
t I the deloyed-oction
releose
Using
filters
Most filters necessitote
on increose in exposure.
This
filter-foctor is indicotedon the mount of the filter (2x,
4 x, etc.).
Setthis
foctor on the filter corrector
22,obove
for q:-lzujs the,7(
(\
t1

the ASA speed index to which the settingmork 2l wos
originolly
setwhen looding the film. Return
the setting
mork to its originol position
when the filter is removed.
The
automatic
exposure
Gontrol
(Figs.
7
ond8)
Key
2 (A: Automotic)must
be engoged
ot the setting
mork 17. Select the shutter speed (do not ottempt to
set intermediote
speeds; oBu connot be selectedwhen
the outo-control is engoged). Hold the comero up to
your eye ond point it of the subiect. lf the exposure
meter
pointer (to the right of the finder imoge)is within
the green sector, then there is sufficient light for o
picture
ond you con press the releose 14.
Theoutomoticolly-selectedoperturesetting
con be reod
both in the viewfinder ond on top of the comero body
(7).
lf thereis too much
or too little light, the exposure
me-
ter pointer will lie within the red worning sectors,
in-
12
dicotingthot the picture
will be incorrectly
exposed.
Re-
odiust the shutter
speed (which is indicoted within the
viewfinder)until the pointer swings into the green sec-
tor. lf the lighting
conditions
ore not suitoble for toking
outomotic exposures,then this correction will be un-
successful:eitherthe pointer
will remoin
within the red
sector when the shutter
speed is odiusted,or else the
red worning sector
will move together
with the pointer
(i.e.when the
comero
is
setto o film speedvolueobove
25 ASA/15 DIN ond o slow shutter speed). Here the
Fig.8
Red worning sector
Exposure
meter pointer
Aperture scole
Red
worning sector
Shutter speed
remedy is to use flosh (see
poge 16).
When the shutter is not tensioned the exposgEJnelefi(
pointer
will be locked.ticuloroperturesetting,it isolso
possible
to odiust the
shutter-speedsetting
ring l8 whilst
the outo-controlis engoged,so os to line the exposure-
meter pointer up with the desired f/number.The shutter
speed ring must however engoge of one of the click-
stop settings.
I
I
13

{
K
Releasing
the shutter
Hold the CONTAFLEX
super B os shown on the front
cover-flop
of this instruction
monuol.To toke o picture,
press the releose knob 14 softly ond smoothly down-
words - never ierkily. At the moment of exposure
the
viewfinder
imoge
will blockout; it will reoppeor
os soon
os the ropid-wind lever 12 is tensioned. For shutter
speedsslower thon rlso
second the comero should be
ploced
on o tripod.
The exposure
meter
is colibrotedogoinst o stondord ond will ensure
the
correctexposureunder normol conditions.
Open lond-
scopes
with lorge oreos of sky, ond bocklit pictures
in
porticulor moy be incorrectly exposed when the expo-
suremeter
is used os described
obove,since
the brighter
sky tones or the sun shining directly into the meter
will folsify the reoding. In such
situotions
the normolly-
determined
exposure
should be modified by increosing
the lensoperture by one f/stop. This correction is olso
necessory
for pictures
of low-controst
subiects
on color
reversot
fitm, e.g. exposures
on cloudy doys. For this
reoson o dull weqther/bocklight corrector is incorpor-
oted in the comero.
Dull weatherlBacklight
corrector (Fig. 9)
With the thumb on your left hond, turn ring 23 to bring
the cloud symbol over the setting mork 24. Hold it i^n
thisposition
while pressing
the releoseknob. The result
of the correction is shown by the deflection of the
pointer on the operture scoles,
both in the viewfinder
ond on top of the comero.Both
will registerone f/stop
lorger operture. The ring 23 will spring bock outomo'
14
ticollyto the sunsymbolwhen it is releosed.
Thefigure
2within the cloud symbolindicotesthot the dull weother
corrector corresponds to o filter-foctor correction of
2x, ond it moy olso be used for this purpose. lf the
operture requires less thon one full f/stop correction,
then the ring need only be turned by o corresponding-
ly smoller
omount.
Mqnuql operotion
Disengaging
the auto-control (Fig. 10)
Depress
key 2 qnd of the some time turn the operture
scole16 (morked
"monuell")
to the setting
mork 17 by
15

meons
of grip 28.By setting
fhe shutter
to "monuell" it
is possible to select the shutter-speed
ond operture
settings
occording
to choice:
eitherindependently
of the
exposure
jmeter
or in occordonce
with its reodings.
In this
woy the exposure
con be corrected
- prelerobly
by vorying the operturesetting in either direction
- to
o greoter extent thon con be ochieved with the dult
weother/bockl
ight corrector.
Exomple:
Close-up
reodingswith high brightness-controsts.
Hold
the comero (withthe outo-control
engoged)
closeup to
the
subiect
whilsttoking core not to cost
o shodow upon
it. Reod off the operture indicoted (here the externol
meter window wilI prove most usef
u
t) o
nd set it by
meons
of the operture
setting ring morked "monuell,,.
Then
toke the picture
from the desired position.
When the comero
issetto o monuolly-selected
operture,
theexposure
meter
is disconnected(the
pointer remoins
within the red sector).
This is o built-in precoution to
ovoid the possibility
of erroneous
reodings.
So long os
thepointer is
visible
within the green
sector,
you con be
certoin
thot the outomoticexposure
control is in opero-
tion.
Takingpicture$
byflash(Fig.
II
)
The zElss lKoN lKoBLlrz 5 "cordless" floshgun con be
plugged directly into the f
losh contoct 6. other types
of flosh units
should
either
be slippedinto the occessory
shoe
(39)
or ottoched
to the tripod bushing
3l by meons
of o brocket.
Plug
the synchro-contoct
of the end of the
coble
ottoched
to the flosh unit into the flosh contoct
5.
Determine
the correct
guide number
of theflosh
unitor
t6
floshbulb for the sped of the
will be given on the floshbulb
tions
for theflosh
unit.
film you ore using.This
corton or in the instruc-
olwoys be set
flosh, qnd for
V
rc
F for tokinspic-
usewith flqshbulbs
qs
depress locking key
X
X
("V"
settins)
will
R
Automatic
flashexposures
(Fig.
12)
The outomotic flosh-exposure
control operotes of oll
shutter-speed
settings.For
normol usewith both flosh-
bulbs ond electronicflosh,
the synchronizotionshould
be set to i.X''l' \r' /
There is no limitotion on the choice of shutter speed
when using
electronic
flosh,
ond the speed
selected
hos
no influence
on the guide numberto be set.
lt

Thefollowing guide numbers'
con be set:
y' On the block scote (f
:50 mm) for the ZEISS
TESSAR
V
. /\ f 12.8,50
mm stondord lens: -E-- i \
Correspondinflguide-numbgrsfor distonce
setting
in meters.
mm)
for thezElssPg}J$!
Floshbulbs
provide
the most
effective
light ot o shutter
speed
of 1/go sec
(morked
in yellow); if foster
speeds
ore
used,it should
be notedthot the guide number
must
be
reduced
occordingly.
Press
key 2 ond turn scole
3 by meons
of gri
p 28 so os
to setthe oppropriote
flosh guide number
to the block
../ :uttlry mork 17 (provided thot the bosic zEtSS
TESSAD(
b-!]ffq.rr lens is beins used).
When toking flosh pictures
with the ZEISS PRO-TESSAR
guide-numbercontrol is eosiest to perform when the
4 comero is_tensioned
ond the focus-distonce
is set to
/Y h--.--
opproximotely
l0 ft.
lf the exoct
guide numberf
or your flosh light-source
is
not engroved on the flosh scole, set it to the numeri-
colly-neorest
guide number.Intermediote
settings
with- ,,
( out positive
click-stopsshould
not be selected. X
18
For greoter
printed here
both scoles.
Hold the comero up to your eye, focus, ond press
the
releose.
At ony speed,the operture setting required to
ensure
correct
exposure
will be selected
outomoticolly
os you focus.
In order to prevent incorrectly
exposed flosh pictures,
the focusing movement
is stopped outomoticollyof the
closest ond furthest distonces for the pre-set guide
number. Therefore, if you connot focus your comero
properly, do not ottempt to toke o flosh pictureos the
conditions
ore not suitoble.
Flosh
pictures
with the ZEISS PRO-TESSAR
85 mm ond
115
mm telephoto lensesshould be token in the con-
ventionol monner, with the outomotic control disen-
goged ond the proper operture settingselectedon the
monuol
scole.
90 78
65 bE
45 sB32
282420n14lr-10
clority in reoding, the guide numbers
in smo |
| type o
re represented by dots on
On the
35 mm
r30
40 fl0
34
red scole (f
wide-o
nqle
19

Accessories
Key: @
: Diomeier of mount in mm
S : Screw-on
mounl
G : Yellow
GR : Green
O : Oronge
R: Red
Ever-reody cose
Color filters G - GR - O - R- UV,
lkolor-B-CondF, @S2l
I set of filters (G-GR-O-UV),
A S 27,
with cose
Lenshood,
flexible, A S 27
I
$
r
=}
-v
L-
g.
r t
o
c
o
o
E
(tr
o
fE
€
!I
o
c)
E
E
o
(D
;rc
-ol
.T
=l I
T
I
F!
t'
il,
&-
lF=
sE
H3
"l od
lci
dE
H;
H$
FE
l=
ll ct
$t
[r €
$iE
l,l =
$-s
tr
tf
ls
I
ts
fil
ill
t
ZEISS
PROXAR
LENSES,
A A 28.5,
for close-uppicrures
from 40 to 20 in. opprox. (f : 1 m) 20.0g00
Irom 20tlzlo 13tlzin. opprox. (f = 0.5 m) 20.0801
from 131/z
to ]0 in. opprox. (f : 0.3 m) 20.0N2
__ f--r 81/4
lo 6tl4 in. opprox. (f = 0.2 m) 20.0g03
ZEISS
PROXAR
doublet lens
for close-ups
down to 3.6 in., @ S 27 20.0804
I set of PROXAR
lenses,
with depih-of-field colculotor ond contoiner 20.7070
CONTAPOL polorising filter, Q S 27 20Jr200
Cobfe releose with lock 20.02g1
Vision-correction
lenses,
from I 0.5to + 5 dioptres 20.0504
Vision-correcfion
lens, onomqlous 20.0505
Cossette
with spool ond contoiner 20.0300
Spool for cossetle 20.0301
Cop for 50 mm lens 20.0602
Comero neckstrop
with securing oltochments 20.0211
ZEISS
interchangeable
lenses
and
aooessories'
ZEISS
PRO-TESSAR
t13.2,
35mm
wide-ongle
lens,
with contoiner ll.'1201
ZEISS
PRO-TESSAR
t13.2,
85 mm relephoto lens,
with contoiner
ZEISS
PRO-TESSAR
f14,
115mm telephoto lens,
with conioiner
20
23.0ffi7
20.1
000
20.7071
20.0713
11.1202
r'r
.'t205
l{
&fl
o)
:N
L6l
:itl
^sr.'.S*
UUUL;--SSO
,o?r\-fo?
!\ts\i\\\
ool:s:o 'elir
h;NN
q)
3\O
IF
6*
;
i\
88:i.hFFS
\T?u?o??
::\:ti::
SSSS
\o.rrhlr)o;/'pl-
;- il ,j-, + c.r c!
o>
o
sdo:il5
6U:;-:-p-
TTYq??q
i!iti:t\
giSS;rSSS
=ioro=So}ll ;a q, c! c.l
Q)
L
-@
0)+
;.S:
8Siii'ii*n
.TTqYT?C}
iiit\iti
ISSS€\SSS
Neoi_!osggotD
o.o(D6{c{
o
l\O
be
o
f
-=
0)s
o
o
?@
bs
.o
(;(,
.-c
Oo 8Rni.,ii+io'? <\l

TT
lu 23
*".t 24
ZEISS
PRO-TESSAR
l:1, for noturol-size close-ups,
in leother cose 11
.1204
ZEISS
Monoculor Attochment
8X30 B, for lelephoto
pictures
ot 400mm focol length
Color filtersfor PRO-TESSAR
35 ond 85
G-GR-O-R-UV, lkolor C, F, O S 60
Color filters for PRO-TESSAR
'l
]5,
G-UV, lkolor C, A S 67
Adoptor ring for using S 67 filters on
PRO-TESSAR
35 ond 85
Lenshood
for PRO-TESSAR
35 ond 85, O S 60
Lenshood
for PRO-TESSAR115,
A S 67
Leother
contoinerfor @ S 67 lenshood
Leother cose for I PRO-TESSARond | filter
Leother
cose
for 2 PRO-TESSARS,
2 filters
ond lenshoods
Cose for ZEISS
Monoculor Attochmenl
Universol cose for 3 PRO-TESSARS,
film bockond 3 filters
Universol
cose
Interchangeable
film backs
Film bock
Cose for I film bock
Cosefor 2 film bocks
Gopying
and
photomicrography
accessories
Angle viewfinder
Adoptor ring for micro-oitochment
Attochment
heod for micro-ottochment
Gopyingoquipment
Toble
copyingunit
llluminotion
equipment
Otheraccessories
Coble releose
with time-exposurelock
IKOBLITZ
5 "cordless" copocitor floshgun
for coplessfloshbulbs
for No.5 bulbs,ond M 5 & M 25
bulbs
ii&"
ir,
fl
20.1629
20.r
009
20.1017
20.1643
20.0709
20.0714
23.2003
23.t001
23.1201
20.7812
23.0202
23.0206
20.0302
20.7855
23.0201
20.1614
20.1620
20.1616
20.t850
20.1852
20.0281
22.0006
22.0007
21
ii
fl
,l27
128
iI
25
26
il
t
!
27
#:
,
a
d
,
t'
tt
I
I
t
r
T
{
I
l,
f:
il
l
{
A
I
T34
35
33
32
3l