LOMO Compact Automat, Operation Manual

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Camera viewfinder is telescopic. A luminous picture limiting frame with a parallax mark for taking
at near distances, a light indicator for control over power cells energetic level, a light indicator
warning of expected shutter speeds longer than 1/30 s are in the field of vision of the view-finder.
A wide-angle high power objective
«
Minitar
»
is rigidly built in the camera which considerably
extends opportunities of the camera (photographing of architectural subjects and landscapes at
short distances, photographing of landscapes in small premises and so on). In this case, some
vignetting (decrease of brightness and definition towards the margin of the field) is possible.
Focusing is carried out by the distance scale and by symbols Visible in the viewfinder field of vision.
For photographing with a flash bulb, a manual diaphragm setting in the range of 2.8 to 16 is
provided. At switching-over from automatic operation (
«
A
»
) to manual diaphragm setting, a
shutter speed 1/60 s is set.
Contact
«
X
»,
is used for synchronization of the shutter with the flash bulb.