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Agfa Optima 1535
cameras.alfredklomp.com/optima1535/
"All Optimas have:
a HUGE brightline viewfinder that makes them useful to people with glasses;
one single thumb lever that winds or rewinds the film, depending on the polarity set by a push button;
a foolproof quick-loading system;
the big Sensor shutter release with a clear pressure point;
automatic exposure;
an f/2.8 lens (fast and practical);
a plastic slab that (briefly) protects the exposed film from fogging when you accidentally open the back;
a plastic-coated, all-metal body.
The Optimas are very transparently designed cameras (albeit very German in appearance and strangely reminiscent of the Plaubel Makina 6×7), and very compact too. They have an outer shell of plastic-coated metal and mostly metal internals, which makes them very durable. There are a lot of plastic parts, some of which are fairly vital like cogs and such, but I think that here plastics are not so much synonymous with cheapness and shoddiness, but with optimized mechanical characteristics and manufacturability."
Agfa Optima 1535
cameras.alfredklomp.com/optima1535/
"All Optimas have:
a HUGE brightline viewfinder that makes them useful to people with glasses;
one single thumb lever that winds or rewinds the film, depending on the polarity set by a push button;
a foolproof quick-loading system;
the big Sensor shutter release with a clear pressure point;
automatic exposure;
an f/2.8 lens (fast and practical);
a plastic slab that (briefly) protects the exposed film from fogging when you accidentally open the back;
a plastic-coated, all-metal body.
The Optimas are very transparently designed cameras (albeit very German in appearance and strangely reminiscent of the Plaubel Makina 6×7), and very compact too. They have an outer shell of plastic-coated metal and mostly metal internals, which makes them very durable. There are a lot of plastic parts, some of which are fairly vital like cogs and such, but I think that here plastics are not so much synonymous with cheapness and shoddiness, but with optimized mechanical characteristics and manufacturability."