{"id":68208,"date":"2019-08-08T12:06:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T10:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.museonicolis.com\/en\/agfa-folding-standard\/"},"modified":"2022-06-15T17:41:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T15:41:27","slug":"agfa-folding-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museonicolis.com\/en\/agfa-folding-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"Agfa, 1926, Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Agfa Standard, 1926, Germany<\/h2>\n

AGFA<\/strong>\u00a0was 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 \u201cAktien-Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Anilin-Fabrikation<\/strong>\u201c, 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 \u201cAgfa Film Company\u201d in 1909.<\/p>\n

In 1925 Agfa started the production of cameras for Bayer; the following year the first Agfa camera came out, the \u201cAgfa Standard\u201d.
\nThe production of photocameras kept going until 1983.<\/p>\n

Agfa Standard<\/strong> is a folding camera. They were made in the years 1926 to 1931<\/strong> in several different designs. The cameras have a variety of lenses, including Double-anastigmant Helostar. The cameras were also available with a Compur shutter<\/p>\n

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