The latest star in my line-up of vintage amateur medium-format cams:
Agfa Clack 6x9
This is an Agfa Clack, originally built 1954-65 (for details in German see here).
It accepts 120 roll film for 8 shots in 6x9cm. The camera was quite simple, like a point-and-shoot of its age. It came with two f-stops, two distance settings and a shutter for 1/35sec plus bulb. Despite its positioning as a beginner’s cam, the shutter also sports an eye for a cable release.
As this is, of course, a modified version for my special needs (the vendor has replaced the simple 95mm lens by a 75mm f/220 pinhole which gives slight wideangle, approx. 32mm for 135 film), one doesn’t need the f-stop/distance switch any more. So this switch now cleverly operates a filter revolver: choose from none/yellow/orange.
Agfa Clack: built-in filters
I’m so much looking forward to taking the first pictures with this baby 
Oh, and don’t forget: Sunday 26th is
Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day!
[...] Filed under: 120 film, hardware — chw @ 9:15 pm For my first experiments, I fed the Agfa Clack with Kodak Tri-X. That one’s got bizarre frame markings on its [...]
Pingback by Beware of the | « Ritardando - photography slowed down — April 26, 2009 @ 21:16
[...] 1950’s Style Filed under: 120 film, hardware — chw @ 22:35 My pinhole-modded Agfa Clack got a sister a while ago. Looks pretty much like the first one (so no new photo) except for the [...]
Pingback by Point-and-Shoot, 1950’s Style « Ritardando – photography slowed down — November 18, 2009 @ 22:38
[...] an image from my ongoing lowcolor project, taken with the pinhole-modded Agfa Clack on Kodak Portra 160 NC in Hamburg’s Wittmoor nature reserve. This one features areas with [...]
Pingback by Getting Rid of the Dust on Your Scans « Ritardando – photography slowed down — February 3, 2010 @ 22:58
[...] Baltic Sea coast. One night on the beach, with nothing more than the stars above us, I used the pinhole-modded Agfa Clack for some long-time exposures of up to 2.5 hours. This turned out to still be way too short though; [...]
Pingback by When 2.5 hours of exposure still aren’t enough « Ritardando – photography slowed down — August 17, 2010 @ 21:51
SABEM DIZER-ME COMO POSSO POR A MAQUINA A FUNCIONAR? É UMA RECORDAÇÃO DE UMA PESSOA PARA MIM MUITO IMPORTANTE E GOSTAVA DE A PODER USAR…
Comment by Rosa Bessa — December 22, 2010 @ 12:55
Nao falo Portuguez, sorry
English, maybe?
Comment by chw — December 22, 2010 @ 13:57
[...] kommt dieses Jahr höchst wahrscheinlich ein Farbnegativfilm in die umgebaute Agfa Clack, um hernach im Lowcolor-Verfahren entwickelt zu werden. Meinen Beitrag zum WPPD werde ich dann [...]
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