As part of the merger, Agfa obtained the Rietzschel camera works in Munich from Bayer, and badged all Rietzschel products with its Agfa rhombus.

Like the full frame it comes with wrist strap and velour feel soft bag as well as some paper instructions. Funnily I was remined when looking on the bay you can pick up excellent vintage Japanese half frames. And now Agfaphoto has entered the frame with a tweaked version of their Dubblefilm Show Clone shooting half frame. On the down the view finder is just wrong shaped a square not the 4:3 portrait it should be as shown below.Cameras like this have increased demand and got folk like Ricoh/Pentax interesting in making cameras again. In 1925, Agfa was one of the companies that merged to form Interessen-Gemeinschaft Farbenindustrie (IG Farben), a huge corporation covering many dye, photographic and associated industries.

Some of the assets located in the Soviet-occupied part of Germany were taken in reparations, but some continued to operate (for example, the plant in Wolfen continued, first using the Agfa brand, then renamed as ORWO). In 1908 it launched a less flammable security cine film, and in 1910 it opened its big film factory Agfa Wolfen in Wolfen (then in Middle Germany), then the second largest film factory in the world - Kodak in Rochester remained the biggest. a smaller frame size with a certain aperture will have a much bigger depth of field compared to their full frame equivalent lens. Although the format never completely died the rise of the ultra compacts like the Olympus XA and the relative cost of film and processing dropping meant that they fell out of fashion. On the left is an image captured on the camera using Kentmere 400 but on the right is an approximation of the view in the finder from a crop of my smartphone taken at the same spot.Worn by older enthusiasts and a new generation that is regaining a taste for paper photography after having been immersed in and growing up in the digital “everything”.

Setting the film up in the camera is child's play, then all you have to do is press the shutter button to immortalise the moment. Lupus Imaging [4] is another licence holder of the name AgfaPhoto, they produced the Vista line of 35mm color film that are Made in EU, by Ferrania.

This camera is suitable for any 35 mm colour or monochrome film roll and is ideal for anyone wanting to try their hand at film photography. PhotoBite is a team of photographers, filmmakers, photo-journalists and tech geeks with the intention to inform and inspire, providing a pathway through the creative process and ultimately furnishing image-makers with the information, knowledge and tools needed for their creative journey, be that 1 or 24 frames per second. Also, check out the Lomography Simple Use camera with coloured filters on the flash for cool effects. Shortly after the Second World War, IG Farben was broken up by the occupying powers because of its close association with the Nazi government.