Category: AGFA

AGFA Optima III AGFA used the Optima for several generations of automatic compact cameras. The first Optima name appeared on a 1932 Billy Optima, as a klapp model, replacing traditional glass plates with film sheets 7.5×10.5 cm. It was an odd experience that did not float long. The Next Optima models were a line of viewfinders and rangefinders, where the...

AGFA Silette SLE AGFA was the European equivalent of Kodak, supplying a full range of photography inputs, from chemicals to paper, film and cameras. Just like Kodak, they stopped short of progress v into the powerful SLR models, and in AGFA’s case, the few SLR models they sold were Japanese rebrands. The roots of AGFA go back to the 18th...