Flexilette
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| Agfa Flexilette image by vanstaffs (Image rights) |
The Flexilette was unique TLR camera for 35mm film produced by Agfa c.1960 - 1961.
The body was alike in size to a conventional 35mm viewfinder camera, but made a little taller with the extra lens and viewfinder grafted on.
The top plate houses the waist-level viewfinder, frame counter, shutter release and double-exposure release. The front of the viewfinder hood can be opened to form a sports finder. The winding lever and rewinder are on the base.
- Lens: Apotar 45mm f2.8 (stopping to f22), focus to 3 ft
- Shutter: Prontor Special leaf shutter, 1s to 1/500 + B
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| Agfa Reflex - apparently a renamed flexilette image by skagman (Image rights) |
The later Agfa Optima Reflex was similar, but replaced the waist-level finder with a pentaprism one, with a selenium meter on the front for automatic exposure. These two cameras failed to compete with the burgeoning range of SLRs available at the time and the Optima-Reflex was withdrawn in 1964.
Links
- The Flexilette at Roland and Caroline's [1]
- Flexilette on Chrome Age Cameras
- Flexilette on Peter's Cameras
- Flexilette on Adam Costello's Classic Camera site
