Agfa Karat 3.5 (1937) w/Solinar f:3.5/5 cm Die flotte Kleinbildkamera in Vollendung. Das gesunde Prinzip der Karat in seiner Leistung gesteigert durch Optik, hoher Lichtstärke und einen Verschluss mit großem Zeitenbereich.
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This "high end" version of the pre-war Karat 3.5 has a Solinar f:3.5/5 cm lens, a four-element lens.
It features a Compur-Rapid shutter and has a brushed aluminium bottom plate and ditto top housing with strap lugs.
It has a T button with the letter T embossed on the top housing.
35 mm film in Karat-cassettes (after WW2 relaunched as Rapid to compete with Kodak's Instamatic 126 format).
First version type serial # BL4184 (upside down next to the lower sprocket wheel).
And, everything works! But then, this was the top-of-line Karat in the thirties.
Artikelbeschreibung von 1939:
Agfa Karat 3,5
Bildformat 24 x 36 mm
Die flotte Kleinbildkamera in Vollendung.
Das gesunde Prinzip der Karat in seiner Leistung gesteigert durch Optik, hoher Lichtstärke und einen Verschluss mit großem Zeitenbereich.
Bestechend schöne Ausstattung durch reiche
Verchromung und Verwendung des neuartigen Metalls Hydronalium.
Das Hochleistungsanastigmat Agfa Solinar F: 3,5, Brennweite 50 mm, gewährleistet bei höchster Lichtstärke gestochene Schärfe für stärkste Vergrößerung
Compur- bzw. Compur-Rapid-Verschluss von I bis 1/300 bzw.
1/500 Sek. und Zeitbelichtung
Gehäuseauslösung
Frontlinseneinstellung von 1 m bis Unendlich
großer, lichtstarker Fernrohrsucher
Leichtmetallpressgussgehäuse mit Robusitbezug; blanke Metallteile aus unveränderlichem Hydronalium
Stativmutter im Kameraboden
12 Aufnahmen auf Agfa Kleinbildfilm in neuartiger Karatpatrone für bequemsten Tageslichtwechsel
Filmplanlage durch federnde Andruckplatte
sämtliche Skalen übersichtlich an der Frontplatte
unmittelbare Aunfnahmebereitschaft
Ausschluss von Doppelbelichtung, Leerschaltung und versehentliche Auslösung bei geschlossener Kamera.
Gewicht: etwa 450 g
Außenmaße: 130 x 80 x 70 mm
Zubehör: Klappkarton, Gebrauchsanweisung
mit Compur-Verschluss RM 75,-
mit Compur-Rapid-Verschluss RM 85,-
Zusatzartikel:
Bereitschaftstasche aus Rindleder mit Stativschraube: RM 6,50
Drahtauslöser: RM 1,50
Topasfilter 0 bis 3 oder Rubinfilter in Aufsteckfassung 30 mm: je RM 4,00
Vorsatzlinse für Karat 3,5 für Aufnahmen aus 30 cm Entfernung: RM 6,00
Afterthought: I wonder how many of our cameras today will still work after 75 years.... ?
I guess we will never know. Unless we starve and freeze. That prolongs life, says science.
Afterafterthought: Now I get it! That's what the "energy crisis" and rise in food prices are for!
Stub ...
will be expanded when I have had the time to check serial, et cetera
(but I'm guessing war reparation to the Soviets, for re-export to the West for hard currency, or possibly exported directly from the GDR to the West, still aiming for the greenback, though...)
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2 hopefully working Olympus OM10, I have a banged up third for parts (if needed).
Have changed some light seals so far. The manual adapter seems to work, but need to load them with film and start shooting.
I will keep the newer one made in 1983 together with the 50mm made in 1986 (the one to the right).
I'm trying to score a cheap second manual adapter for the camera I'm selling.
Some of these have part used film in them, film I loaded in 2018, probably no good now - or is it?
The Olympus Trip my wife gave me for Christmas in the early to mid 1970s, it hasn't had more than six films put through it, as I then bought the OM1n. The Zorki 4 was always a hit and miss affair as I mostly guessed at settings then. I'm ashamed to say, the Canon 115 produced the best shots ever, I paid quite a bit for that camera if I remember, maybe over £300 in the 90s.
I go on YouTube quite a bit and look at the results reasonably good photographers get with say the Trip, they have a lovely nostalgia look to them, but the quality wouldn't be acceptable nowadays. I'd like to do an experiment with a few of the cameras and take the same shots using my 25mm prime alongside. The cost of film development is a bit prohibitive though, as I don't really know if the light sealing is up to it.
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My Dad used to cut-down film and re-load this in the darkroom, although I believe the normal, "approved" method was to send the whole camera in, and get prints and a re-loaded camera back in the mail.
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