KalartRangeFinderInfinityTarget
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Placepagesideways(horizontal)infrontofcamera.Distancedoesnotmatter.
Oneortwofeetisgood.Focusonupperstarsosecondstarconvergesand
word‘INFINITY’isformed.Horizontallineisalsohelpful.Focussoasinglelineis
seen.Thisistrueinfinity.Theverticallineisusedtomakesurethecamerais
alignedwiththetargetasatiltedcamera/targetwillthrowofftheRFsetting.
Note:Distancebetweenstarsshouldbeexactly2.6875(222/32)inches.
Uppermirror Lowermirror
INFI NITY
Justanote:
Ihavemeasuredthecenterdistancebetweentherangefindermirrorsonmy
PacemakerGraphicatexactly2.6875(222/32)inches.SinceGraflexdefines
‘infinity’asanobjectatadistanceofover5000feet,apracticaltrueinfinity,it
thenmakessensethatfortheinfinitysetting,themirrorsshouldbelooking
straightoutatzeroanglebetweenthem.Thisallowstheabovetargettowork.
Twostarsplacedexactly2.6875inchesapartwillalignthetwomirrorstoviewat
azeroangle.Thiscanbecheckedbymovingthetargettoanewdistancefrom
thecameraandrecheckingtherangefinder.Ifthelines/starsarenotperfectly
aligned,thentheinfinityfocusisoff.Iftheyareperfectlyaligned,thedistance
to/fromthetargetswillnotmakeanydifference.Itisyourchoicewhere
physicallyonthecameratoplace“infinity”Ipersonallylikeitwiththerailspulled
backtothestop.Graflexrecommends“within.040”ofthebackstop...
AsineverythingIdo,ifanyonefindsanyerrorsorhasanysuggestionsfor
improvement,pleasecontactmeatrich@SouthBristolViews.com.
Note2:Pleasemakesureyouhavetheproperprintingsettings,especially
anythingthatmaysuggest“fittopage”or“scale”is100%.This
pageMUSTbeprintedat100%fullsizeinorderforthetargetstobeexactly
threeinchesapart.Iftheyarenot,checkyourprintingpreferencesandsetup.
isturnedoff
Note3:Makesureedgesoftargetareexactlythesame
distancefromthecamera.Anydifferenceinthisdistancewillaffecttheinfinity
setting.
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