Difference between revisions of "Ansco Super Regent"
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The Ansco Super Regent is a re-badged version of the [[Agfa]] Super Solinette. | The Ansco Super Regent is a re-badged version of the [[Agfa]] Super Solinette. | ||
| − | A 35mm folding camera, it has a very nice coupled superimposed rangefinder combined with the viewfinder and an Agfa Solinar f/3.5 50mm lens. The Solinar is a 4 element, 3 group design similar to the Zeiss Tessar. The frame counter is manually reset, and, surprisingly, the camera uses a round knob for the film advance, although the [[Agfa Karat]], a predecessor, had one since the late 1930's. Build quality is excellent. The Ansco Regent was viewfinder version (without the rangefinder), simliar to the Agfa Solinette. | + | A 35mm folding camera, it has a very nice coupled superimposed rangefinder |
| + | combined with the viewfinder and an Agfa Solinar f/3.5 50mm lens. | ||
| + | The Solinar is a 4 element, 3 group design similar to the Zeiss Tessar. | ||
| + | The frame counter is manually reset, and, surprisingly, the camera uses | ||
| + | a round knob for the film advance, although the [[Agfa Karat]], a predecessor, | ||
| + | had one since the late 1930's. Build quality is excellent. The Ansco Regent | ||
| + | a was viewfinder version (without the rangefinder), simliar to the Agfa | ||
| + | Solinette. | ||
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Revision as of 20:28, 28 April 2008
The Ansco Super Regent is a re-badged version of the Agfa Super Solinette. A 35mm folding camera, it has a very nice coupled superimposed rangefinder combined with the viewfinder and an Agfa Solinar f/3.5 50mm lens. The Solinar is a 4 element, 3 group design similar to the Zeiss Tessar. The frame counter is manually reset, and, surprisingly, the camera uses a round knob for the film advance, although the Agfa Karat, a predecessor, had one since the late 1930's. Build quality is excellent. The Ansco Regent a was viewfinder version (without the rangefinder), simliar to the Agfa Solinette.
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