November 2024 – An Agfa Super Silette-L viewfinder camera from 1958 with Synchro-Compur shutter and Agfa Color-Solinar 1:2,8/50 lens. Photo © Mark Zanzig/zanzig.com
The story behind the image
I had some time on my hands and took another couple of images of my Agfa Super Silette-L. It’s a camera that was launched in 1958 and still works today. Which is a bit of a surprising experience in times were you can hardly expect any modern piece of technology to work 20 years from now. Not these old cameras! They are robust and were made to last a long time.
Fortunately, such analog cameras are quite cheap these days. Cameras that were back in the 1950s and 1960s positioned for the ambitioned amateur segment typically cost between 10 (used, uncertain condition) and 150 Euros (from experienced dealers, refurbished, with guarantee) on eBay.
My memories told me I had shot with an Agfa Silette-L camera. But I was wrong. Then I looked at the Agfa Super Silette-L, and this one came much closer to the memories but I was still uncertain. Finally, I realized that this was also not the camera I used reguarly as a young man in the 1970s. (It was a Kodak Retinette 1B.)
But I shot this image which I dedicate to all the fans of old Agfa cameras. May it refresh your memories, too.
Oh, and Gear Talk #10 on the Agfa Super Silette L is coming soon.
Design ideas
The high resolution image
| Capture Date & Time | 25-NOV-2024, 10:34 |
| Location | Unterhaching, Germany |
| Camera | Canon EOS M6 Mark II |
| Lens | Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM, with Canon Mount Adapter EF-EOS M |
| ISO | 100 |
| Exposure | 0.3 sec at f/16 |
| Digital Image Source Format | JPEG, 24 bits/pixel, sRGB |
| Edited Image Format | JPEG, 24 bits/pixel, sRGB |
| Edited Image Dimensions | 6745 x 4497 Pixels |
| Copyright | © by Mark Zanzig/zanzig.com |
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