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| + | #REDIRECT [[Ansco View Cameras]] |
| − | The '''Agfa View''' cameras (properly [[Ansco]] cameras; they were made in Binghampton, New York, and are not similar to anything made by Agfa in Europe, but were sold under the Agfa brand) are wooden-bodied folding field cameras made from about 1925-39.
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| − | The '''Universal View Camera''' was originally made in 3¼x4¼, 4x5, 5x7 and 8x10 inch sizes, but by 1938 only in 5x7 and 8x10 inch.<ref name=PV>[http://www.piercevaubel.com/cam/scovill/agfa.htm Notes on the Agfa/Ansco Universal View] at [http://www.piercevaubel.com/cam/index.htm Pierce Vaubel] shows pages from contemporary American catalogues offering the camera in these sizes and over this period.</ref> The camera is made from cherry wood, stained a mahogany brown ('Adam brown') and has brass fittings and black leather bellows with a thin rubber lining. The 1938 Ansco catalogue offers a 'de luxe' finish of 'steel-grey' stained wood, nickel-plated fittings and red leather bellows.<ref name=PV/>
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| − | The camera is rear-focusing by rack and pinion, and allows a large bellows extension: it has a built-in extension bed. The front standard has rise, shift and tilt, the rear tilt and swing. The rear has a pendulum level. The camera was supplied with a half-blind allowing a single plate to be used for two half-size images.
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| − | The Universal View is one of a range of similar view cameras:
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| − | * The '''Commercial View''' camera was made in 8x10 inch only. It is rear-focusing like the Universal, but also has the front movable by rack-and-pinion.
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| − | * The '''Standard View''' camera is a single-extension camera of similar construction; rear-focusing, and made in 5x7 inch only.
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| − | * The '''Universal Junior View''' camera is a single-extension quarter-plate camera, and front-focusing. It has front rise, and rear tilt and swing.
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| − | * [https://www.flickr.com/photos/nojuanshome/sets/72157626175844983 5x7 Agfa View]; the camera (without bellows), case and a 4x5-inch reducing back all badged with the Agfa rhombus; at [https://www.flickr.com/photos/nojuanshome/ John Gately's Flickr site].
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