Tag: Agfa Optima
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Updated review: Agfa Optima
Updated: my review of the 1959 Agfa Optima, the world’s first full-autoexposure camera.
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single frame: A seat in the sun
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single frame: Kincaid’s
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Agfa Optima
Setting your own aperture and shutter speed is such a draaaaag, man. Only hardcore photographers dig doing it. Therefore, every camera manufacturer on Earth has tried to simplify exposure for the casual photographer. The simplest consumer cameras (such as Kodak’s Brownie) fixed the aperture and shutter speed so the photographer needed only to frame the shot…