Cracking little camera and whilst I was only watching on my phone the images looked nice and sharp. It looks like a solid bit of kit. Better than a plastic kodak anyway.
Thanks Andrew. These metal cameras from the 50s and early 60s were beautifully engineered and produced high quality family shots. I love them! Cheers, Keith
Lovely shots, its surprising how much money was in these border towns back in the Georgian/Victorian period. All based on the wool trade I guess. Shattered by the First World War, grand civic monuments set up to remember the dead whilst the living were quietly ignored (Jeez, that was morbid). Cameras of the 50/60's were the last really beautifully and simply engineered cameras ever made, as soon as electronic built in flash appeared it all went west, or rather South East Asia. Agfa certainly produced fantastic family cameras at the time, I've got a liking for their mock leather plastic wipe clean cases; who needs Voigtlander leather ☺
I agree with all of that, Iain. Very shortly after the time of these cameras came the awful plastic mechanicals like the Instamatic that killed off the beautiful metal "family cameras" (I know - 'cos we had an Instamatic). I love my "Brown Case" cameras. Cheers! Keith
Agfa acquired a camera and lens manufacturer called Rietzschel in 1925 who already had a lens called the "Apotar", so I think they made their own lenses. I agree that the lenses are impressive. Cheers, Keith
Thanks for watching and commenting. A lot of manual exposure cameras from this era had a similar set-up - maybe people were more forgetful back then and needed the physical reminder. 😃 Cheers, Keith
@@theoldunsshot1005 Couldn't believe I stumbled upon your presentation coz' only this afernoon I did a clean & lube on one myself - haven't shot it yet but I have some Tri-X 400 at the ready - 15+ years old!!!
Hi Keith, could You give an advice: I have bought an LC29 developer, but I have a problem: to develop a film I need 10 ml LC29 and 290 ml of water. And the problem is that 290 ml of water = 290 gram, but 10 ml of LC29 is not 10 grams, it is (nearly) 12 grams. And what should I do? I have to use 10 ml (12 grams) of LC29 or 10 grams (nearly 8.5) ml ? Both results didn’t satisfy me.
If I am mixing enough for 1 film in a Patterson tank at 1+19, I use 15ml of LC29 and then add water to make a total of 300ml, so 15ml developer to 285ml of water. I believe the mix relates to volume rather than weight. I hope this helps. Keith
@@andrewflower9533 When mixing I only use units of volume such as mililitres, so I don't worry about how much it weighs. Ilford's technical data sheets on their website give measurements only in volume (mililitres).
