Rangefinder Camera

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 fifty or sixty years ago, 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 talking about the Argus C3, or more affectionately known as "the brick". The brick was made from 1939 and was manufactured by thirty years. At that time, became very popular with amateur photographers, especially for its simplicity in design. The camera is known as the brick, but for obvious reasons, as you can probably see the image itself.

I met mine in a antique fair a few months ago, a merchant who had chosen for me. I had not seen one in the flesh before that date and I remember the first thing the dealer said when I saw him, "Ooh is a brick, it seems ridiculous does not it," the trader replied: "Yes, it does look ridiculous. Would you like to buy this?" Of course, I was impressed by its simplicity, square edges, of course, their undeniable beauty. It is different from 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 the which is linked to the lens through another gear between the thumbwheel and the barrel of the lens. The thumb wheel lets the lens focus.

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 separate viewfinder that can be used if the distance meter was not accurate in my case it was. The thing with the C3 is its design that allows the photographer to adjust the rangefinder configuration by adjusting the position manually adjustable by removing and then replacing it where gets the right focus range. I loaded a roll of film in black and white negative in the camera to prove it by this article and developed in my darkroom.

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