Praktica LTL Instructions for Use
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Your PRAKTICA LTL should be held so that it lies firmly in both hands and you are able to actuate
the shutter release comfortably.
Depress the shutter release steadily – never with a jerk – to beyond the soft-running range until the
shutter runs down.
The close proximity of metering key and shutter release enables releasing the shutter immediately
after taking the meter reading, with the metering key still in depressed position and the lens remaining
at taking aperture. But the shutter release can also be actuated alone, in which case АРD lenses are
fully open up to the moment of the exposure.
After the exposure, the signal on the left side of the viewfinder image becomes visible again, a sign
that the shutter has to be cocked.
L. Self-Timer
The self-timer mechanism is cocked by moving lever (4) upwards as far as it will go. By means of
pressure on knob (5) it will start running, and after about 10 seconds the shutter is released. The sell-
timer mechanism may be cocked either before or after the shutter is cocked. Also, the shutter can be
released in the usual manner by means of release knob (3) even if the self-timer is cocked.
M. Changing the film
When the exposure counter (14) indicates the number of frames obtainable with the film in the
camera (12, 20 or 36 exposures) the film has to be rewound into the cartridge which is then taken out
of the camera.
Depress rewind release knob (28) in the base of the camera. It will remain locked in this position.
Unfold rewind crank (7) out of rewind knob (6) and rotate it, not too quickly, in the direction of the
arrow (mark on crank (7)). Rewinding at too great a speed may cause electrostatic charge and statics
on the film.
Just before rewinding is completed, greater resistance becomes noticeable until the film is
disengaged from the take-up spool. After this, the crank turns quite easily.
Fold the rewind crank back into the knob and pull the knob upwards as far as it will go. The camera
back is thus unlocked and can be opened. Remove the cartridge with the exposed film from the
camera.
Loading a new film, and subsequent cocking of the shutter, cause the rewind knob (28) to spring
back automatically to its initial position.
Should you have attempted to expose more frames than the number marked on your film pocket, the
cocking lever might, at the end, of the film, get jammed so that it cannot be swung around completely.
Never use force
in such a case as this might tear the perforation of the film, or the end of the film
might slip off the spool inside the cartridge. In both cases, rewinding would be impossible.
