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From: anand@utastro.UUCP (Anand Sivaramakrishnan)
Newsgroups: net.rec.photo
Subject: Re old cameras and the like
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Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 13:38:31 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 12 13:38:31 1985
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I would like to know more about the sort of thing
Robert Cooper posted recently. I'm not a collector,
but I enjoyed the little digression into the history
of photographic gadgetry.

Incidentally, I own a folding 6x6 camera that has
'Solida III' written on it. It was made in U.S.-occupied
Germany (written on it). I learnt recently that it is
made by Agfa. Why did Agfa not put their name on it?

It takes curious pictures, the lens dies a horrible
death in the corners, so the pictures look like they are
pre-Boer War.  I believe the lens is a bit of a lemon,
a Schneider-Kreuznach Radionar. Very bad spherical aberration
or something technical like that. Perhaps it was meant as
a portrait lens only? It looks very nice, though. 

(By folding I mean that the lens & shutter assembly
spring out of the metal body, with bellows.... )


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