www.butkus.usINTRODUCING THE WARDFTEXYour Wordflex comero is o precision lwin-lens reflex
comero thot mokes l2 Picfures, opproximotely 2'/+x2%inches, on fi t 20 roll film, either block-ond-white or color.
It is colled o twin-lens reflex comero becouse it hos two
motched lenses: one used for focusing ond composing thepicture, ond the other for octuol picture toking. Bothmove together so thot when the picture in the viewer iscleor, the picture you toke will be shorp.
The lenses ore Telmer f /3.5,80mm focot fength, ond
ore hord cooted to tronsmit more light ond moke shorperpictures.

The comero hos o T. K. K. shutter with speeds from I
to 1/2OO second ond Bulb.
Flosh synchronizolion is closs F.
Before looding the comero, reod the following instruclions corefully ond study the illustrotions. You will findit helpful to go through the operotions severol times until
you ore thoroughly fomilior with the comero. lt is onlyoffer the operotion of the comerq hos become more orless outomotic thot enough thought con be given tocomposing ond exposing properly to moke better-thonordinory pictures.

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WARDFLEX PARTS
A-Focusing Mognifler (in ploce foruse)

A2-(boffom picture) Focusing Mog-nifier-lnormol folded positionT
B-Viewfinder Hood

C-Direct Vision Viewfinder or"sports finder" (front frome)
D-Film Winding Knob

E-Red Window forF

exposure

counting (not visible in front view)
F-Focusing Knob
G-Footoge Focusing Scole

GHJ

H-Depth-of-field Scole

K

J-Shutter Cocking Lever
K-Shutter Speed Setting Ringt

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L-Coble Releose Socket
M-Shutter Releose
N-Floshposl Terminol

P-Viewing ond Focusing Lens
Q-Toking Lens
R-Diophrogm Adiustment Lever
S-Sofety Lock for Hinged Bock
T-Tripod Socket (not visible inpicture, but centrolly locoted onbottom of comeroTU-"Sports finder" ireor fromeTV-"Sports finder" ponel releosebuttonW-Toke-up Spool Knob
X-Accessory Clip
Y-Film Spool Knob)

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www.butkus.usTO OPEN THE VIEWFINDER HOOD
To open lhe viewfinder hood (B), hold the comero inone hond ond simply lift up lhe top. The hood is springoctuoted, ond remoins opened or closed os you set it.

CAUTION : before closing the hood, moke certoin
lhot the focusing mognifier (A) is in its normol

folded position (A2).
VIEWING OR COMPOSING THE PICTURE
You hove o choice of viewfinding methods. Most of thetime you will probobly use the ground-gloss (or "reflextype") viewfinder. With the hood (B) opened, turn thelens toword the obiect to be photogrophed ond lookdown on the ground-gloss. A full-sized imoge will bevisible on lhe ground-gloss. Except thot it is reversed
left-to-right, it is the some os the picture you will get.
When using the ground-gloss, focusing is done ot thesome time os composing. Turn fhe focusir':g knob (F)until you con see your subiect cleorly. This outomoticolly
focuses the comero, ond is one of the chief odvontogesof reflex-type comeros. For more criticol focusing, lift up
the focusing mognifier (A, A2) from its normol folded
pcsiticn ogoinst lhe front of the hCod (B) ond lcck ot
the ground-gloss imoge through it. Then there is no doubt

oboul shorp focusing. The mognifier moy be returned toploce simply by pressing down on it. To photogroph
fost oction shots or in other situotions where ground-gloss
viewing is not desiroble, o direct viewfinder (C, U) or"sports finder" is provided. Hold the frome of the finder(C) ond push bockword on the center ponel unfil it locks
into ploce ogoinst the bock of the hood. Then, holding
the comero of eye level, o viewfinder is formed by lhesmoll squore (U) in the bock of the hood ond the lorge
squore (C) in the front. The front ponel moy be returned
to ploce by pressing the smoll button (V) on the bockof the hood.
FOCUSING
Under mosl circumstonces the best method of . focusing
your comero will be through the ground-gloss os described obove. however, o footoge scole (G) is olso
provided on the focusing knob qF7. You con meosure or
estimote how for owoy from the subject your film is ond
set the footoge scole (G) for thot distonce. Together
with the depth-of-field scole (n), this footoge scole isused for most fost-oction shots. An exomple is perhops thebest woy of describing the operotion of the depth-offield scole. Suppose you ore using o fost film outdoors ot

www.butkus.uson othfetic event, ond thot your operture setting is t/16.

By plocing the infinity mork ("") on the footoge scole
opposite the forword l6 on the depth-of-field scole, you
con tell ot o glonce thot oll obiects between infinity ond

12 tt. (the foctoge mork opposite the bock 16 on thedepth-of-field scole) ore in focus. For exomple, ofter
setting the comero in this woy for the first shot, you con
then photogroph oll oction beyond 12 tt. from you (orwhotever distonce is shown for the operture you oreusing) ot o footboll gome, ice show, or the like, os fostos you con shoot ond wind the film, provided the lightdoesn't chonge. Such pre-focusing is olmost imperotive

for mony oction shots.

THE SHUTTER
The shutter ollows light to poss lhrough the lens ond follon the ftlm for q controlled period of time. This comero
offers o wide ronge of shutter speeds to slop oction or
to shoot in very poor light. To set the shutter speed youwont, turn the shutter speed setting ring (K) so thot
the red mork on it is opposite the shutter speed you desire.
The numbers shown for shutter speed ore froctions of osecond; thot is, 200 represents 1/2OO of o second, 25

represenls 1/25 second, I indicotes I second, etc. B
indicotes bulb, ond meons thot the shutter remoins open

os long os you hold the shutter releose open. Before
toking o picture, the shutter must be cocked by pressing
down on the shutter cocking lever (J).
WARNTNG : Do not ottempt to chonge shutter
speeds with the shutter cocked. lf necessory tochonge speed, first hold lhe lens cop or your hondover the bottom lens ond releose the shutter. This
will prevent exposing the film.

To toke the picture, push the shutter releose (M) withon even steody motion to your left os you hold thecomero, or use o coble releose in the coble releose
socket (L). Form the hobil of odvoncing the film to thenext number immediotely qf ter pressing the shutter
releose to prevent possibility of double-exposure (overlopping pictures). For slow-speed exposures with theshutter set ot B (bulb) or other speeds from one
second up to obout | /25 second, it is odvisoble toploce the. comero on o tripod or other firm support,
since for periods of time longer thon 1/50 or 1/25
second it is impossible for mosl persons to hold <rwww.butkus.uscomero steody enough to obtoin shorp pictures. A tripod

socket (T) is locoted on the bottom of the comero.
APERTURE SETTING

The operture is on opening between the lens elements
thot is formed by on odiustoble diophrogm. lt determines
the omount of light thot posses through the lens in ogiven time. The diophrogm is set by the diophrogm
odiustment lever (R). A system of "F stops " or " Fnumbers " is used to indicote the relotive size of theopening. At f /3.5, the moximum operture, the diophrogm
is wide open. At f /22, it is completely "stopped down."
To see how the diophrogm operotes, open the comero
bock (see section, Looding the Comero), set the shutter
speed setting ring on bulb, then cock ond trip the shutter.
Hold the shutter releose to keep the shutter open, ond
look through the lens. Move the diophrogm odiustment
lever bock ond forth - - you con see the diophrogm open
ond close ond see the size relotionship between the
different "F numbers" ond "F stops."

FTASH PICTURES
Any stondord flosh unit with o brocket thot con beottoched by the tripod socket (T) or thot hos onoccessory shoe moy 6e used with this comero provided

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it hos o Europeon-type flosh connection. The shoe-type
flosh units moy be ottoched directly to the comero bodyby meons of the occessory clip (X). The flosh connecting
cord must be ottoched to the flosh post terminol (N).
FTASH SYNCHRONIZATIONYour comero will moke flosh pictures with oll stondord
flosh bulbs. You con use electronic flosh only if it is setfor F-deloy (5 milliseconds).

Any shutter speed from I second to 1/1OO second (or.
bulb) moy be used with gos-filled (closs F) flosh bulbs
such. os SM ond SF types. These bulbs do not furnish
os much light os most of the wire-filled bulbs below,
but they hove greoter obility to stop oction, which lessens
the chonce for blurred oction piciures. Regordless ofhow long the shutter is open, they furnish light for only
obout 1 /2OO second.
Any shutter Speed from I second lo 1 /25 second (o,bulb) moy be used with wire-filled (closs M) floshbufbs such os fr5, fr25, n8, ? ll, ond fr40. The chief
odvontoge of these bulbs is thot they hove considerobly
greoter light output thon do the Closs F bulbs obove.
They furnish light for obout 1/50 second.

www.butkus.usAnolher type of flosh bulb is the new M-2. lts chief
feotures ore greot compoctness ond the lowest costof ony flosh bulb. lt con be used from I second tol/25 second, (or bulb) ond is best suited for foirly
close shooting where the oction is not loo fost.
Closs F bulbs sre recommended with this comero for mostuses. However when (l) using slow-speed film, (2)shooting ot consideroble distonce or outdoors, or (3) you
need to shoot of smoll opertures, greoter light output isrequired ond the closs M bulbs ore recommended. The
need for greoter light output con be determined fromthe tobles on the instructions boxed with eoch roll of film,
from the pockoge oround the floshbulbs, or from pocket
flosh colculotors. One other cose where closs M bulbs ore
desiroble is when you ore using color film specificolly"color-bolonced" for closs M lomps.
Electronic flqsh units moy be used only if they ore set
for F-deloy (S milliseconds). Any shutter speed from I
to 1/2OO second moy then be used.

LOADING THE GAMERA
Never lood the comero in bright direct light. lf there is
no shode ovoiloble, even your shodow helps. To put film

into the comero, open the comero bock by lurning thesofety lock (S) on fhe bottom of the comero counler-clockwise from the morking C (close) towords the morking

O (open). (These morkings, C ond O, ore stomped on
the sofety lock ond do not refer to picture code letter).
Pull out the film spool knob (Y) ona ploce the new rollof j 120 film on the spindle in the empty film chomber.
Unwind obout 4 inches of the poper bocking covering thefilm ond insert the topered end of the poper into the slotof the spool in the toke-up chomber. Be certoin thot thefilm is centered evenly on the toke-up spool, otherwise it

moy climb one end of the spool ond iom or teor thepoper. Wind the film obout three-quorters of o turn withthe film winding knob (D) to moke sure the film bocking
poper is engoged in the toke-up spool.
Close the hinged bock ond turn the sofety lock clockwisefrom the morking O toword the morking C until it stops.
Open the red window (E) ond turn the film winding knob
until the fi t on the ftlm bocking oppeors. The film is now
in position to moke the first picture. Keep the red film
window closed ot oll times except when winding the film.

This is especiolly importont when using high-speed
ponchromotic films.

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Following eoch exposure, open lhe red window ond windfilm until next number oppeors. After the twelfth picture
hos been exposed, turn the winding knob until oll of thefilm is wound onto lhe toke-up spool.

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UNTOADING THE CAMERAOpen the hinged bock by turning the sofety lock fromthe morking C towords the morking O. Pull out toke-up
spool knob (W) ond remove the exposed film ond thetoke-up spool. Fold under the printed end of the poperbocking ond seol with the gummed sticker on the poper.
The film is now reody to be developed ond printed.
To be reody for the next roll of film, move the empty
film spool from the film chomber to the toke-up chomber.

EXPOSURE
With eoch roll of film the monufocturer encloses informotion to obtoin best exposure results with the film. Follow
the guide on the film.
GENERAT INFORTIATION
Keep the lenses of your comero cleon. A dirty lens orroin or mist on the front lens will couse unshorp pictures.
To cleon the lens use o lens tissue or soft linen or cotton
cloth. Keep the inside of your comero free from dust
ond dirt.

It is not good proctice to leove your shutter cocked forextended periods of time. lf it is cocked ond you wish
to uncock it, ploce the lens cop or the heel of your hondover the lens ond press the shutter releose. With o little

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core no light will reoch the film. Do not chonge shutterI

speeds while shutter is cocked.

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The simple procedure below, when devetoped into hobit,

Iwill prevent mony blurred picf ures ond over-lopping
exposures.

Before toking rhe picture, quickly run over rhis check lits

in your mind ond moke certoin thot oll controls ore set
properly:
S - Shutter. Hove you set fhe shutter speed youwont to use ?

A - Aperture. ls the operture set ot the rlght F stop ?
F - Focus. lf the picture you see on the ground" gloss is cleor, lhe comero is in focus. Or set thefootoge scole.

E - Expose lhe piclure by releosing the shulter;
everyfhing is in order to get good results.

lhe comero for the nexf exposure. First
immediotely wind lhe film to the next number.

R - Reset.

Chonge the shutfer ond operlure controls if necessory

for lhe next shot. Cock lhe shutter, if you plon loshoot ogoin right owoy.
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