And these are gateway cameras to new folk. They are cheap enough to give a go and have a lo-fi aesthetic that we know appeals. Agfa-Gevaert publishes its full year 2018 results, agfa.com. Article dated 2019-03-13, retrieved 2019-04-01. Great article Connor! You beat me to it as I bought one for the Daughter for Christmas but it didn’t arrive till last week. Only the 1035 and 1535 have the multi-coated lenses. I agree about the 1535 vs the 1035, zone focus and smaller size makes a great travel camera. P.S. Although covered in a plastic membrane the body is fully aluminium, and I have seen people take it off and polish the metal which is a very cool look, although I’d be afraid to ruin a good camera doing that. These plastic cameras have straightforward controls. It’s worth keeping a few things in mind when using them. So, whether you are using a Reusable or Disposable here are some tips to get the best images out of them: How To Get The Best From Your Reusable Film Camera. The activities of the Agfa division have been subdivided into three groups: Offset Solutions (the prepress business of the former Agfa Graphics business group), Digital Print & Chemicals (the inkjet business of the former Agfa Graphics business group and the activities of the former Agfa Specialty Products business group) and Radiology Solutions (the imaging activities of the former Agfa HealthCare business group). [5] Products [ edit ] Agfa Box 50 (ca.1949)

It was a bolt out of the blue and a clever move from Agfphoto. And you know a bit of competition does no harm. Open system high-speed red-sensitive film with hard dot image quality, intended for exposure in imagesetters with HeNe laser (630 nm – 670 nm) or red laser diode. Perfect processing in compatible chemistries. Then I received the text that we had one. An Optima Sensor 1035 in good condition, with the compact Optimalux flash. I came running to my coworker’s desk, took it from his hands, and tested it myself. Then I went shooting. In the mid to late 1990's Agfa sold low end compact digital photography cameras under the Agfa ePhoto name, while their desktop scanners were called Agfascan. In 1997, it had acquired Dupont's printing and graphic arts film business. [1] In 2001, they stopped production and ended support for both their consumer scanners and digital cameras. And it truly was. The vivid colors, strong sun, and intense flora showed up on Ektar and Portra exactly how they did in my memories.

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The company began as a dye manufacturer in 1867. In 1925, the company merged with several other German chemical companies to become a chemicals giant IG Farben. IG Farben would go on to play major role in the economy of Nazi Germany. It extensively employed forced and slave labor during the Nazi period, and produced the notorious Zyklon B chemical used in The Holocaust. IG Farben was disestablished by the Allies in 1945. AGFA was reconstituted (as a subsidiary of Bayer) from the remnants of IG Farben in 1952. Another cool design feature is the combined advance/rewind crank. Where most cameras have two separate levers to control film advance and rewinding, the Agfa’s clever gearing means the same crank both advances and rewinds, depending on the position of a small button next to the shutter. Don’t ask me how it works, I’m sure there are a bunch of little gears in there. It’s just really cool, and again saved the Agfa engineers quite a bit of space, which aids the smooth, minimalist design. Negative-working dot-line film with hard dot image quality. Drop-in product for former Camera CE users, processable with both G101c as ACD developer Advertisements for Agfa products in AsahiCamera February 1930 and ShashinSalon January 1934. ( Imagerights)

In 2004, Agfa-Gevaert withdrew from the consumer market, including photographic film, cameras and other photographic equipment. As part of the consolidation of the German chemical industry, Agfa became part of IG Farben. [3] The photographic activities are combined with those of Bayer, including a camera factory in Munich. By contrast, Agfaphoto branded photographic films are not made by Agfa-Gevaert at all, originally having been made by the now closed Ferrania plant in Italy. Agfaphoto films are now produced by Fujifilm in Japan for Lupus Imaging Media.So I left for Finland, Agfa-less. And again, working at Kamerastore.com, I was surrounded by new gear. I played with a silly Olympus point and shoot SLR thing, and an iconic Zeiss folder that could easily be a “bring everywhere” medium format camera, but my Agfa lust became well-documented to some of my coworkers. An Agfacolor slide dated 1937 from Paris, France Slave workers work in a factory owned by the AGFA camera company, May 1943 And before you say “but they could get a better second hand camera”, you’re missing the point. No one is going to start making new cameras that they can’t sell due folk buying second hand. Agfacolor negative-positive color material is used for the first time for a feature film Frauen sind doch bessere Diplomaten ( Women make the best Diplomats) by the German UFA film studios.

Acquisition of the Harold M. Pitman Company a US supplier of products and systems for the graphic industry. The production of material identical to the last generation of fibre-based and resin-coated photographic Agfa Multigrade papers has been resumed by Adox. [9] See also [ edit ] In the early days of digital photography Agfa sold low end compact cameras under the Agfa ePhoto name. Today the AgfaPhoto brand is licenced by German photographic company Plawa which sells a modest line of AgfaPhoto Sensor compact digital cameras. In 1968 Agfa introduced its red sensor point, a round membrane made of red foil and framed with a metal ring. Depending on the camera type, either a mechanical or an electromechanical shutter release button was hidden under the flexible membrane. Since then this touchpad-like shutter button was used on most of the company's models and became a familiar feature. Since January 1, 2019, two new entities emerged within the Agfa-Gevaert Group: Agfa HealthCare (ITCo) and Agfa (MainCo). Agfa HealthCare groups all IT-related activities of the former Agfa HealthCare business group. The newer Agfa includes the activities of the former Agfa Graphics and Agfa Specialty Products business groups, as well as the Imaging activities of the former Agfa HealthCare business group. [5] Agfa Healthcare [ edit ]American assets were seized during World War II as enemy property and became General Aniline and Film Corp., whose photographic products reverted to the Ansco brand name. Agfa Graphics and Shenzhen Brothers create the Agfa Graphics Asia joint venture to reinforce their position in the Greater China and ASEAN region. Acquisition of Heartlab, Inc., a U.S. developer of cardiology image and information management systems. Acquisition of Symphonie On Line, a French information technology company and developer of EPR ( electronic patient record) systems. Ernst Bäumler: "100 Jahre Chemie", 1963, issued on the 100th anniversary of the Farbwerke Hoechst AG