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Agfaflex camera booklet
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qttention. Hold the Agfoflex over-
                                                         heod, looking up onto the ground-
                                                                     gloss, ond you con shoot over the
                                                          heods of q crowd. The imoge on the
                                                            groundgloss is olwoys bright ond
                                                                            porollox-free, since its imoge is mode
                                                 by the lens used to moke the pic-
                                                                       ture. This is true for oll lenses in-
                                                                  cluding normol, wide-ongle ond tele-
                                                             photo. A hinged mognifier ossures
                                                                         criticql focus with groundgloss or
                                                                                 built-in split-irnoge rongefinder.





Agfoflex lll wirh Woisf level Finder
Equipped with the woist-level finder the Agfoflex
will be found eosy to use for pictures of people
(especiolly children) onimols, noture subiects ond
scientific photogrophy. Hold the Agfoflex sidewoys
qnd you con sight your subiect without orousing


Agfoflex  lll not ovoiloble in the U. S.
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Two focusing methods incorpo-
 roted into the Agfoflex combine
 to give you double ossuronce thqt
 your pictures will turn out criti-
 colly shorp. You hove your choice
 of focusing on the groundgloss,
 or of using the split-imoge ronge-





                                The ropid film tronsport lever of the
finder locoted in o circle in the      Agfoflex speeds up picture toking.
center of the groundgloss. To use    One stroke of the lever winds the                          tEthe lotter it is only necessory to      film to the next exposure, chonges
turn the focusing ring until the      the film counter, unlocks the double
two holves of your subiect ore      exposure prevention device ond re-
lined up, os shown in the illus-      veols the groundgloss imoge once               Etrotion.                                more.
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                                                                      There ore five inter-
                                                                      chongeoble lenses, in
Superb lens Quality                                                        ropid-chonge mount for
is the reoson why millions of comero fons                                  the versotile Agfoflex.
toke their pictures with Agfo comeros. ln
the Agfo foctories the most odvonced monu-
focturing methods, os well os selected vo-
rieties of the lotest opticol gloss ore utilized.
A new kind of vqcuum installotion is used
to give eoch lens on ontireflection cooting.
Rigid quolity control is exercised through
the production of eoch Agfo obiective                                           -
stor:ting with coreful otfention to the quo-
lity of the gloss used through to the finol
inspection of the polished surfoces of the
finished lens. The methods of monufocture
used olso ossure full utilizotion of Agfo
reseorch, both into optics ond in Agfocolor
phofogrophy. Needless to soy, Agfo lenses
ore fully color corrected. Their performonce
obility hos been successfully tested in hot-
test deserts ond in regions of eternol cold
ond ice.
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(ontrols Visible From Above
                                                       All importont comero controls cqn be seen from
                                                 obove. This mokes it possible for you to choose
                                                proper settings of o glonce.
                                                                                                                    scole.                       @ Focusing ring. @ Depth of field
                                                                                                 Shutter speeds.                       @ Diophrogm setting ring. @
                       @ Film speed setting. @ Releose cotch for
                                                          interchongeoble  lens.





Motrh Red ond Black Dots
Thot's oll you hove to remember when inserting
one of the Agfo interchongeoble  lenses. A slight
twist of the wrist to the right ond your lens
snops into ploce securely. In the Agfoflex the
lenses thot ore interchonged ore complete, entire
obiectives.
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             AGFA CO1OR.AMBION  tl3.4 35 mm $ 65.00


The five-element wide-ongle Agfo Color-Ambion
f/3.4 35 mm lens is useful for shooting groups,
or:chitecture, interiors ond londscopes where work-
ing distonces ore limited, yet os much of the sub-
jecf os possible must be included in the picture.
The picture of right shows wide-ongle perspec-
tive which includes lots of bockground moteriol,
creotes o  feeling of distonce.



                                                                  *            AGFA COL0R-S0llNAR  fi2.8 50 mm
            AGtA C0L0R-S01AG0N f/2 55 mm $ 105.00+(tr

There ore two Agfoflex lenses of normol focol
length to choose from  o high quolity four-
element Agfo Color-Solinqr f/2.8 50 mm or the
top performonce, extro fost, six-element Agfo
Color-Sologon fl2 55 mm. Both lenses ore de-
signed to moke the kind of criticolly shorp nego-
tives ond color slides so desiroble in minioture
comero photogrophy. They ore fully corrected
for photogrophy in color.

 t Avoiloble only with comero
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AGFA C010R-TELINEAR fi3.{!0mm $ 72.00$+
The five-element Agfo Color-Telineor  f/3.4 90 mm
brings distont obiects closer. lt is o fovorite
focol length for portroits. lt eliminotes the dis-
tortion from hoving to work too close. The pic-
ture of the right shows how use of o longer
focol length lens con mqke less bockground mo-
teriol oppeor in the picture, compress distonces.





                                                        r  llt
                     ActA (o.'oR-TETINEAR  r/4 r35 mm $85'00
lH
                                                   ,l35The five-element Agfo Color-Telineor f14   mm
brings distqni obiecfs reolly close. li's q must for
subiects like distont sports, oction, wildlife ond
noture shots. The exomple ot the right shows
how bockgrounds con be mode to loom very
lorge, spoce becomes very compressed. In oll the
picfures working distonces were chosen to keep
imoge size of foreground figures the some.
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                                           Closeups Are Eosy
                                           With lhe Agfoflex

A picture of o single delicoie blossom, o foscinofing insect, o
beoutiful bufterfly on the wing    these ore only o smoll port                                  -
of the exciting new world thof owoits your explorotion in
closeup phoiogrophy. The Agfoflex needs no complicoted oc-
cessories for closeup work -  iusi simple Agfo supplementory
lenses. The imoge in fhe finder is porollox-free, shows exoctly


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Iwhot you will get ot oll working distonces. Agfo Closeup Lens
lets you shoot of distonces from 3' Io 20". Closeup Lens ll is
for shots of 22" to 15" - Combine                          A    I   A  ,.-.
Closeup Lens I ond ll ond you con           ,\[h           \{.:*J
so os ctose os 9'I1,".          .,1iry--,i.:>='*
                                                 ,'..f .  /
                                                                                                                     .rl;.,:;'i1i-X-----l:\i:r      /    \
Closeup Lenses with 46 mm screw-in threod $ 5.00 eoch
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The evereody cose for the
Agfoflex combines elegonce
with utility. lt  is mode of
smooth top. groin cowhide.
Hos o reinforced front which
offords moximum protection
for the comero lens.
                $ 12.00
                                                     Agfc Diomofor SFilters for the Agfoflex ore                                                            Proiedion (onvenienceof the 46 mm screw-in type.
                                                              The new Agfo Diomotor S slide proiector embodies oll the lotestColors offered ore light green,                                         refinements of proiection qutomqtion. Wit,h the Diomotor S ii is un-
                                                                           necessory for you to touch or be neor the proiector, except iomedium yellow, red oronge,                                      chonge o film mogozine. You con control focus ond slide chonging                    .|.5                                            from your ormchoir, lf you like you con sit right in the oudienceU.V. ond cr R    for color                                   omongst  f riends ond the qdmirers of your pictures. A coble  is
                                                                     connected to the soeciorl mechonisms within the Diomotor whichphotogrophy.                                                        chonge the focus or move the mogozine to the next slide. A simple
                                                                         touch of o button ot the coble's end oerforms either tosk efforl-              $ 5.00 eoch                                                 lessly. Should you decide lo remove o' mogozine before its enlire
                                                                           contents o,re shown you con disconnecf the outomoiic mechonism
                                                                                  tempororily. The excellent opiicol system of the Diomotor S g,ives
                                                                  even illuminotion over the entire screen    feoiures the Agfo Ago-The hondy Agfolux  ll Pocket                              mor proiection lens which preserves every-     bit of shorpness  im-                                                                        porled to your color slides by your Agfoflex comero. Plus feoturesFlosh Unit mokes indoor pho-                                  ore o horizontol slide corrier odiustment ond on odiustment for
                                                                    the lomp position.togrophy eosy. lt folds com-
                                                                            A,gfo Diomotor S with remote controlpoctly for eosy corrying ond                                         qutomotic focusino ond remofe conlrol
                                                                          outomqtic slide cEonoino    $129.95
                                                                                                                                       tz.oostoroge - uses midget flosh-                                   AgfoCoseDiomoton Tope srn.hroniru{$
bulbs.                                                                                                                       29.00
                                                                            Troys for 30 slides        $  1.40      Without cose $  9.95                                             Self-odhesive confoct foil for the syn-
                                                                                     chronizotion of slides to tope $  1.50      With cose    $ 10.9s
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                           (hoosing The Righl tilm                 t"*'#.:mokes  for outstonding pictures. Agfo lsopon films offer contour shorpness, ex'
tremely     f ine groin, onti-holo protection, wide exposure lotitude. Agfocolor  f ilms
let you explore the wonderful world of color photogrophy    leod to poper prints                                                                    -or color slides.
                   Ask your AGFA Frqnchised Deoler to lood your new
                    AGFAFLEX comero with q  roll of AGFACOLOR CN 11
                            film with its unique ond unexcelled shorpness in 35 mm
                          color photogrophy,





                                                                                                                             E. l-5119/25552/166.  Printed in Germony Author Broeding
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