Agfa Clack
This is another purchase. I saw it sitting in a second-hand junk shop complete with its “leather” case and instruction leaflet and I just had to add it to the collection.
The Clack began production in 1953 and continued through until 1965. A twelve-year production run is unheard of in the digital age.
The camera is very simple, basically just an update of the early box cameras. The Clack takes 120 roll film and the whole roll/spool assembly slides out of the camera so it can be loaded. The image size is 6×9 (centimetres) and only 8 shots fit on a roll.
The Clack has two shutter speeds, normal and bulb. But it does also have two aperture settings, one for sun and one for overcast.
And, I have to confess, at the moment it isn’t in a cupboard. It is in a packing crate under the stairs. But it will be unpacked and back in a collection cupboard eventually.
The photo of the Agfa Clack was taken ‘strobist’ style with a Canon 580EX 11 flash fired through a Westcott umbrella just to the left of the camera and a large white reflector just to the right to provide some shadow fill.
I’d love to try one of those, it’ll be like a classy Holga.
Rob; I have one of these cameras, and have put both slide and neg through it, the results a glorious sight to behold, the slide results particularly impressed me, given the simplicity of the camera