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NEWS: Double the Fun with AgfaPhoto's New 35mm Half Frame Film Camera
Lupus Imaging & Media, the company now behind the AgfaPhoto brand and APX black and white films, has brought us a new fixed-focus half-frame camera with a 50mm F5.6 lens. The AgfaPhoto Half Frame 35mm camera is similar to what we have seen in the Kodak Ektar H35 from the Reto Project, but for...
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It is cheaper than the Kodak version. And by version, I’m pretty sure it is one mfg that makes all these cameras and packages them in how the final retailer see fit, to make it seem like it is ‘their’ camera.
Interestingly Agfaphoto claims it is a 50mm f5.6 lens. I don’t believe that for a second as it is physically exactly the same size as the full frame version they sell w the 31mm f10 lens. And as it is a fixed focus lens, 50mm 5.6 would not show the DOF that this lens seems to. The exposures, seeing that the author is using ISO 400 film, also do not seem to match up to an f5.6 lens.
Unfortunately none of that is addressed in the article.