{"id":67697,"date":"2019-08-08T13:03:54","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T11:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.museonicolis.com\/en\/agfa-billy-record-postwar\/"},"modified":"2022-06-15T17:54:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T15:54:13","slug":"agfa-billy-record-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museonicolis.com\/en\/agfa-billy-record-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Agfa, 1933, Billy Record"},"content":{"rendered":"

AGFA Billy Record, 1933, Germany<\/strong><\/h2>\n

AGFA<\/strong> was founded in\u00a01867 in Rummelsburg (Berlin) by Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy, son of the composer Felix Mendelssohn, and by Carl Alexander von Martius.<\/p>\n

In 1873 the company changed name in “Aktien-Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Anilin-Fabrikation<\/strong>“, which acronym is\u00a0AGFA<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Initially\u00a0Agfa produced chemical products for photo film. In 1880 Franz Oppenhaim joined the company and will later found the “Agfa Film Company” in 1909.<\/p>\n

In 1925 Agfa started the production of cameras for Bayer; the following year the first Agfa camera came out, the “Agfa Standard”.
\nThe production of photocameras kept going until 1983.<\/p>\n

Agfa Billy\u00a0<\/strong>is a series of affordable cameras\u00a0produced since\u00a01927<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The \u201cBilly Record<\/strong>\u201d<\/em>\u00a0model is the most successful of the series. It was produced from 1933 to 1942.
\nThis photocamera costed at the time 30\u00a0marks in Germany and 185\u00a0francs in\u00a0France.
\nThe film is a 120 roller-type, 6×9 size, the lens is a Agfa Agner 1:6.3. <\/strong>It weighs 560 g and its dimensions are 165 x 88 x 37 while closed and 165 x 108 x 131 while opened.<\/p>\n

The camera is simple and therefore suitable to a wide range of people, the quality of the photos is good despite the low cost.<\/p>\n

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