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5 User’s Guide
Loading The Camera
1. Remove the Back Cover by pressing the Lock Clip. While pressing, either pull on the
leather tab on the Lock Catch or pry the Back Cover off with your fingers. If you have
difficulty removing the Back Cover, you can pry the Lock Catch with a flat-head
screwdriver or butter knife, and later bend the Lock Catch with pliers until it is easier to
remove with your fingers.
2. You have the option of setting the Counter Dial now or in Step 8. (It is safer to set the
Counter Dial now, because the method described in Step 8 may loosen the screw which
holds the assembly together.) Spin the Sprocket Wheel(s) until they stop by running your
finger on them from right to left. This should make the Counter Dial spin counter-
clockwise. Push the Counter Dial Release towards the View Finder and hold it. Turn the
Sprocket Wheel(s) until the Counter Dial spins a quarter of the way around, let go of the
Counter Dial Release, and continue to turn the Sprocket Wheel(s) until they stop again.
This will make the Counter Dial advance one frame. Continue to do this until the
Counter Dial is set to 34, which is two tick marks from 0 and four tick marks from 30
(because the Counter Dial goes up to 36, not 35). The camera is automatically set to 31
or 32 when the film is rewound, so adjusting it to 34 is not as tedious as it sounds and can
be done rather quickly.
3. Pull the Rewind Knob on the bottom of the camera as far out as it will go. Insert the
film cartridge in the right side compartment with the knob on the film cartridge facing up.
Then lock the film cartridge in place by pushing in the Rewind Knob and turning it until
the shaft is fully engaged in the film cartridge. If done correctly, the Rewind Knob
should lay flat against the body of the camera as if there were no film inside.
4. Pull the strip of film (the leader) out
of the film cartridge and insert it into the
slot on the Winding Shaft, so it sticks out
about ¼ inch on the other side of the
Winding Shaft. Then hold the film
snugly along the film track with your
fingers and turn the Winding Knob
clockwise until the end of the film is bent
where it enters the Winding Shaft.
5. Take up any slack in the film by
turning the Rewind Knob clockwise.
Make certain that the spikes of the
Sprocket Wheel(s) line up with the
perforations in the film and that the film
lies flat and straight.
Fig 5-1: Loading the camera