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
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| 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
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| 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
- Agfa Box 50 user manual at Butkus.org
- Agfa Synchro Box user manual at Butkus.org
- Box 50 and Synchro Box 600 at Kurt Tauber's (in German)
- Agfa Box 50 at Sylvain Halgand's www.collection-appareils.fr (in French)
