ePHOTOzine has partnered up with to bring you a selection of Agfa Isolette 1 instruction manuals and related photographic literature for. The Agfa Super Isolette completes the wide range of Agfa Isolette models, known The camera is equipped with the four-element F – mm anastigmat Agfa. The Isolette V, made from to ’52, has Agfa’s entry-level f/ Agnar . User’s manual for the Isolette V at Richard Urmonas’ homepage.
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Agfa Isolette II
Retrieved from ” http: Primary Menu Skip to content. It is not adjustable to 4. The viewfinder can also be masked for this format, with a small lever beside the cold shoe. Mankal other models, the camera has a swing-out spool holder on the left supply side of the film chamber. Personal tools Log in.
This model was called the “Soldatenkamera” soldier’s camera in Germany during the War. To close it just bend the arms in at the elbows and snap the front isolette. Like the ‘T’ lock, this interlock acts on the body release button, so if the lock engages accidentally, or a double exposure is desired, it is still possible to release the shutter by pressing the linkage on the shutter itself or with a cable release, on versions of the camera on which the cable attaches directly to the shutter, not the body release; they vary in this respect.
Privacy policy About Camera-wiki. Isolette, first model, aboutwith Igestar anastigmat and Vario shutter. Kind of like being slightly stopped down without stopping down…. This reflects changes in the specification over the period the camera was made i.
The Isolette series, and its kissing cousins in the Ansco Speedex series also made by Agfa for Ansco had several versions. Repairs Debris in between the lens elements, easily cleaned by removing the rear element and cleaning inside with the qgfa open on B.
Kind of like being slightly stopped nanual without stopping down… The top left button opens the camera looking from the backthe top right is the isolete release button. Manusl if that extra distance helps the edge-to edge sharpness?
The Isolette I is, like the V, a rather low-specification model. The one on the right is a newer vintage. Shutter cocks manually, releases with the top button like an SLR.
Different lens and shutter combinations were available, allowing a wide range of levels of specification. It was made by Agfa Kamerawerk AG, Munich, Germany, from[1] and the series of cameras continued until about And the test roll I shot tells me the lens deserves its good reputation.
The first post-War model was made from till Most of the lenses are still uncoated.
The Isolette L is a viewfinder camera. There is a film-type reminder on the other end of the isllette housing. The camera has a red window for normal on frame numbers; advancing the film accurately for the half-frame format might be difficult.
Agfa Isolette II, showing the characteristic wide raised centre of its top housing.
Agfa Isolette 1 Camera Manual
Double exposure prevention, indicated by a agaf or silver dot on the top of the camera. The older one has scale in feet, 3 feet to infinity; the newer one is in meters, 1m to infinity.
Some of the shutters have a delayed action. It has a red locked or silver unlocked indicator in a hole in the top-plate, next to the advance knob.
Overall, pretty straightforward as folders go. Related Links The manual! The Isolette II was sold alongside the ‘I’; it is an alternative model offering higher specification than the ‘I’, not a successor to it. I understand that Isolettes are commonly found with their focusing front elements frozen in place from hardened grease, this one could probably use a lube job in that area but luckily for me turns freely.
The original Isolette Isolette 4. Most are synchronised some have switchable M and X-synchronisation. This in turn is the basis of the Automatic 66which has a coupled rangefinder and a light meter coupled to give aperture-priority AE.
The agf knurled disc on the right of the picture is a film-type reminder dial. There were less lens and shutter combinations, offering only the higher levels of specification no Agnar, nor Vario or Pronto shutters.
This first model is a dual format camera. Debris in between the lens elements, easily cleaned by removing the rear element and cleaning inside with the shutter open on B.
The camera has an manuao shoe above the viewfinder. Both have stops from f4. The cameras are as follows: Isolette I; second version with DOF scale on the shutter face-plate. Red window advance, with a sliding door to protect the film from fogging. All have front-element focusing. There are two versions of it:.
Flickr image Agfa film German 6×6 viewfinder folding German 4. And then there are model-year variations among the individual types… The one on the right is a newer vintage.