AGFA camera company
This is an Ambi Silette, a 35mm interchangeable lens rangefinder camera made by AGFA Camera-Werk AG Muenchen between the years 1957 and 1961. Upon it’s release, the Ambi Silette was AGFA’s top of the line 35mm camera and would be the best featured rangefinder model they would ever make. Featuring …
What is it? This is an AGFA Parat I, a 35mm half frame camera made in West Germany between the years of 1963 and 1968. The Parat I was the most basic model in AGFAs Parat lineup of half frame cameras, which also consisted of the Paramat and Optima Parat …
What is it? This is an AGFA Optima I produced between the years 1960 – 64. It was the followup to the original Optima from 1959 which was one of the very first cameras with a fully automatic program auto exposure mode. It’s selenium meter would allow the camera to …
What is it? This is an AGFA Billy-Clack No. 74 folding camera built in Germany from 1934 – 1940. It makes eight 6cm x 9cm exposures on a roll of AGFA B2 or 120 roll film. There was also a Billy-Clack No. 51 that took 6cm x 4.5cm exposures. The …
What is it? The AGFA Karat was a series of strut folding compact cameras made from the mid 1930s through the mid 50s. The earlier models used a unique type of Rapid film made by AGFA for this camera. It differed from Kodak’s 135 format 35mm in that the cassettes …
