Optima Sensor 335

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Agfa Optima Sensor 335 image by Alf Sigaro (Image rights)

The Agfa Optima Sensor 335 is the base model of the range of Optima Sensor cameras introduced by Agfa in the late 1970s. It is a small, rectangular 35mm viewfinder camera.

The 335 has a 40mm f/3.5 Agnatar lens, with three-zone focusing, stopping down to f/22. The large red shutter-release button is mounted in the top of the advance lever, with a cable release socket on the (user's) right side of the body.

The rewind release is next to the shutter release on the top plate; this is rotated to an "R" mark for rewinding, when, unusually, the winding lever is also used for rewinding instead of a separate rewind crank.

On the front of the lens barrel, inside the lens' filter thread, there is a CdS metering cell mounted at the bottom, and a film speed dial at the top. The shutter speed is set electronically between 1/30 & 1/300 second.

The window on the edge beside the shutter release contains the frame counter. There is a tripod socket on the left-hand end. The camera has a bright-line viewfinder with parallax correction marks for close-up use.

Source

• Optima Sensor 335 instruction manual.

Links

• Lionel's Agfa Optima 335 sensor overview at 35mm-compact.com
• optima 335 sensor on www.collection-appareils.fr by Sylvain Halgand