almost hasselblad
Agfa Isolette III
A while ago, I bought a job lot of 5 mostly undescribed cameras --in between them were three folding cameras only shown closed and in blurry photos. I had a good feeling about them. Yay mystery! When they arrived, each had something wrong with it. In fact, what turned out to be an Agfa Isolette III had everything wrong with it: sticky focus, rangefinder frozen solid (someone tried at it with a screwdriver and only succeeded in leaving a mark on the top housing), bellows like a sieve (common with plastic bellows covering on Agfas of this era) and erratic shutter.
I fixed it all.
Read more on my blog:
almost-hasselblad.blogspot.com/2022/02/agfa-isolette-iii....
Agfa Isolette III
A while ago, I bought a job lot of 5 mostly undescribed cameras --in between them were three folding cameras only shown closed and in blurry photos. I had a good feeling about them. Yay mystery! When they arrived, each had something wrong with it. In fact, what turned out to be an Agfa Isolette III had everything wrong with it: sticky focus, rangefinder frozen solid (someone tried at it with a screwdriver and only succeeded in leaving a mark on the top housing), bellows like a sieve (common with plastic bellows covering on Agfas of this era) and erratic shutter.
I fixed it all.
Read more on my blog:
almost-hasselblad.blogspot.com/2022/02/agfa-isolette-iii....