Argus C3 Brick Film Camera

Argus C3 Brick Film Camera
by Argus Camera

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Manufacturer: Argus Camera
Product features:

35mm film.
Brick film Camera.

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Digital camera Review: Crack you in the bean with my brick.
Summary: 5 Stars

This is an excellent camera and has been for the past 90 years. Simple and durable. Takes great pictures and a blast to use. On a sunny day just stick in 100ISO film, set it to f:16, 1/125, focus to infinity and you'll have the fastest camera in the world. No facedetection/ 64 point focus/ tungsten balance/ the terrorists win/ tripod mode. Just a simple camera and great pictures. I shoot professionally with a DSLR and long to head out on the weekends with my brick. i dare one of you little punks to put down the Lomo and try out actual vintage photography. Like-a the kind grandma used to-a make.

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Summary of Argus C3 Brick Film Camera

Argus 35mm film rangefinder camera. Known as 'Brick' The Argus C3 was a low-priced rangefinder camera mass-produced from 1939 to 1966 by Argus in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. The camera was the best-selling 35mm camera in the world for nearly three decades, and helped popularize the 35mm format. Due to its shape, size, and weight, it is commonly referred to as "The Brick" by photographers (in Japan its nickname translates as "The Lunchbox"). The most famous 20th century photographer who used it was Tony Vaccaro, who employed this model during World War II (see under Famous Patrons in this article). The C3 was constructed primarily of Bakelite plastic and metal castings. The design featured an unusual and simplistic diaphragm shutter built into the camera body, so the camera could make use of interchangeable lenses without the need for a complex focal plane shutter. The rangefinder utilized a separate viewfinder from that of the regular viewfinder and was coupled to the lens through a series of gears located on the outside of the camera body. The profusion of knobs, gears, buttons, levers, and dials on the camera lent it a "scientific" look that was found in customer surveys to be one of the things buyers most liked about the camera.