Film Rangefinder

The technology is improving every day now, and as soon as they launched a new camera is a newer model, supposedly better in the pipeline. There seems to be an obsession with megapixels and cram in as much as possible in a small place, not always for the benefit of the camera, but seems to pull in consumers; I guess that is all that matters!

Megapixels are the big sellers of the cameras today, but the fifties or sixties, a megapixel was completely unknown. Any mention of a megapixel, and would end up being displayed in the town square as the village idiot. Of course, if we start talk about the Argus C3, or more affectionately known as "the brick". The brick was made from 1939 and was produced for about thirty years. At that time, became very popular with amateur photographers, especially for its simplicity in design. The camera is known as the brick, and for obvious reasons as you can probably see for yourself in the picture.

I met mine in a antique fair a few months ago, a merchant who had chosen for me. I had seen one in the flesh before then and I remember the first thing the dealer said when I saw him, "Ooh is a brick, it seems ridiculous does not it," replied the concessionaire, "Yes, it does look ridiculous. Want to buy?" Of course, I was impressed by its simplicity, the square edges and of course, its undeniable beauty. It is different than other cameras, not only in form but also in its design.

By design, I mean design techniques. It's like something that was designed with the bits left out of it at first so it had to be added later. The focusing mechanism is a toothed wheel to which is linked to the lens through another gear between the thumbwheel and the barrel of the lens. The thumb wheel lets you focus the lens. The C3 is a rangefinder camera, and unfortunately, the rangefinder is very small. A small window about five millimeters in diameter makes it a little awkward to approach. It also has a viewfinder separately to be used if the distance meter was not accurate in my case it was.

The thing with the C3 is that its design allows the photographer to adjust the rangefinder configuration, adjusting the position manually adjustable, by removing and then replacing what you get the proper focus range. I loaded a roll of the negative film in black and white camera to prove it by this article and developed in my darkroom.

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Film Rangefinder

Film Rangefinder