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Agfa Box44 - With case and film spools. The wooden spool came with the camera and is marked Agfa.
Circa 1932 |
My Mother in law, knowing my interest in photography, picked up an old Agfa Box 44 camera from a market in Austria and brought it home. It is a neat little camera. It has a fixed aperture, meniscus lens and 2 shutter speeds. Momentary marked as a dot and bulb, marked as a dash. The camera used 120 film and make a 6cm x 9cm negative. I took everything apart and cleaned it all. The camera looks as though it has seen little use. It even had an old wood film spool in it.
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Agfa Box44 - Camera opened for reloading
This camera makes a 6cm x 9cm negative on 120 roll film. 8 shots per roll. |
To use the camera you need to load 120 film by removing the back and pulling out the insert. You just place the new film in the holder and wrap it around the backside and attach it to the take up spool. you then place the insert back inside the camera box. Make sure that the take up spool is on the same side as the winder. Place the back cover on and wind the film until the number "1" shows in the little red window.
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| Agfa Box44 - Insert holds the film and the lens. the hole is where the winder attaches to the film spool. |
The lens is build into the tube at the front of the insert and the shutter sits in front of that. To take a picture you aim the camera with a little viewing window. There are Two. One for portrait and One for landscape.
the speed lever has 2 positions a dash for bulb and a dot for quick. I really have no idea how fast the shutter is or what the aperture is set at. The only adjustment you really have is the film ASA.
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| Agfa Box44 - looking at two film spools through the viewing window. also shown are the shutter selector, shutter switch and the winding knob. |
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| Agfa Box44 - Front of camera open showing shutter open in bulb position. |
This first photo was taken of some trees at the side of the road in the country near my fathers home.
The EV value of this sceen is about 14 The film is Ilford FP4 developed for 125ISO.
The photo is slightly over exposed.
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Trees
Agfa Box44 - Ilford FP4 6x9 |
The second photo is of an old truck on the back of my fathers property the exposure value is slightly less at 13.4 and the mid tones are a lot more apparent.
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Old Truck
Agfa Box44 - Ilford FP4 6x9
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I would hazard a guess from these photos that the camera is close to f 16 at 1/60sec.
Impossible d'extraire l'insert
ReplyDeleteVous devez tirer sur le bouton d'enroulement en premier.
ReplyDeleteDans mon deuxième photo vous pouvez voir le bouton sorti.
Dans mon troisième photo vous pouvez voir le trou dans l'insert.
le bouton passe à travers ce trou pour engager la bobine de film.
You need to pull the winding knob out first.
In my second photo you can see the knob pulled out.
In my third photo you can see the hole in the insert.
the knob passes through this hole to engage the film spool.
merci...
ReplyDeletecordialement
I'm so glad to come across this blog! My grandfather picked up one of these in Germany during WWII and I inherited it after his death. The leather case is in shoddy condition and the removable insert is a little rusty but I hope someday to try taking some shots with it. Cheers for the blog!
ReplyDeleteHello, I have one of this campera, was purchased at Argentina where I live. Never try it Even I have 120 format rolls, because in part the ASA speed are more hight than the original film sugested at the back sticker. In my camera, suggest me Agfa isopan or Isochrom, both aprox. rated 40 Asa, so using a modern film like 160 ASA, shoud be 4 times more sensible than the design speed, so I planned to put in front of lens 2 neutral density filters factor 2. Who Will correct the excess of light
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