Agfa Optima 1a

Agfa Optima 1a
Overview
Type	35 mm
Lens
Lens	Agfa Color-Agnar f2.8/45
Focusing
Focus	manual
Exposure/metering
Exposure	Automatic
Flash
Flash	Hot shoe
General
Dimensions	121×82×68 mm

First produced in 1962, the Agfa Optima 1a or Agfamatic was one of the first fully automatic scale-focusing 35mm film cameras. The successor to German camera manufacturer Agfa's Optima 1 camera, the camera employed a selenium cell that generated a voltage related to the luminance, to both measure the light level and to provide the power required for automatic setting of aperture and shutter speed. Other features included a flash mode which overrode the automatic mode to set the camera shutter speed to 1/30s, and a bulb mode for long exposures.^[1]^[2]^[3]

References

^ Halgand, Sylvain. "Agfa Optima IA". www.collection-appareils.fr. Retrieved April 7, 2011.
^ "Agfa Kamerawerk AG, Munchen, Germany". The Camera Site. Archived from the original on August 27, 2011. Retrieved April 7, 2011.
^ http://blia-gear.blogspot.ae/2012/12/agfa-optima-1a.html^{[better source needed]}

External links

Optima on Camera-wiki.org
Agfa Optima 1a at Lomography, examples of photographs

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[1] Halgand, Sylvain. "Agfa Optima IA". www.collection-appareils.fr. Retrieved April 7, 2011.

[2] "Agfa Kamerawerk AG, Munchen, Germany". The Camera Site. Archived from the original on August 27, 2011. Retrieved April 7, 2011.

[3] ttp://blia-gear.blogspot.ae/2012/12/agfa-optima-1a.html^{[better source needed]}

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