Agfa Box 50

The Agfa Box 50 was a durable simple camera for absolute beginners. It made 6×9 cm exposures on film rolls of type 120 (=60mm). The inner part had to be taken out of the camera to load the film. The Synchro version allowed to mount the bulb flash Agfa Clibo.

Agfa Box 50

Agfa Box 50 image by Uwe Kulick (Image rights)

• Type: Box camera
• Manufacturer: Agfa Camerawerk AG, München
• Year of release: 1949
• Film: 120 film rolls
• Lens: ca. 100mm fixed focus meniscus lens, uncoated
• Aperture: 1:11, switchable to greater aperture with yellow filter or smaller aperture without filter
• Shutter: simple one-speed shutter
• Finders: built-in brilliant finders, one for horizontal, one for vertical format
• Price:25$

Synchro Box

Agfa Synchro Box image by jgs4309976 (Image rights)

• Type: Box camera
• Manufacturer: Agfa Camerawerk AG, München
• Year of release: 1949
• Film: 120 film rolls
• Lens: 105mm fixed focus meniscus lens (minimal distance 3m)
• Aperture: 1:11, switchable to greater aperture with yellow filter or smaller aperture without filter
• Shutter: simple one-speed shutter, speed 1/30 sec.
• Finders: built-in brilliant finders, one for horizontal, one for vertical format
• Dimensions: 84 × 102 × 125 mm
• Weight: 350 mm
• Flash: connector for bulb-flash Agfa Clibo

Links

• Box 50 and Synchro Box 600 at Kurt Tauber's [1]
• Agfa Box 50 at Sylvain Halgand's www.collection-appareils.fr