Once you start collecting cameras, you are eventually going to acquire an Argus C3. There is a good chance that you'll eventually get two of them, maybe even three. At one point I owned four of the damn things, each of them representing different variations of the famous brick from Ann Arbor. The Argus C3 was produced from the 1930's through the 1960's, so there are many of them floating around the country. Personally I consider a flea market a wash if I can't find at least one of these lying on a table. It's a heavy, solid camera that looks more complicated than it really is.
Argus in motion.
I took the camera over to Cox Arboretum. The rangefinder is off a bit so my focus was a little hit or miss, but I managed to get some reasonably sharp images in the end.
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The Cintar lens really isn't all that bad, especially stopped down a bit. It preforms fairly well, which combined with the cameras original low price is one of the reasons the camera was so popular.
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Grasshopper wind vane.
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Late Fall 2011
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