{"id":69557,"date":"2019-08-07T17:11:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T15:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.museonicolis.com\/en\/agfa-karat-6-3\/"},"modified":"2022-06-15T18:00:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T16:00:05","slug":"agfa-karat-6-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museonicolis.com\/en\/agfa-karat-6-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Agfa, 1939, Karat 6.3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Agfa Karat 6.3, 1939<\/strong>, 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.
\nIn 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. The production of photocameras kept going until 1983.<\/p>\n

The Agfa Karat 6.3<\/strong> has a rounded cast aluminum body covered with a durable black synthetic material. On the top is a window for the internal frame counter and the film advance knob, which interlocks with the Agfa self-cocking shutter for double exposure prevention. The viewfinder is a simple Galilean tube.<\/p>\n

The collapsible front plate, which is released by a button on the top, is supported by four chrome plated scissors struts. It has an Art Deco style insert<\/strong> and the controls for the shutter & f stop settings.\u00a0This camera uses a type of film cartridge called ‘Rapid’<\/strong> that holds 12 35mm frames.<\/p>\n

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