The Reflex with the waist level finder extended and ready to use looks pretty neat right? The top lens is used for the the viewfinder, and the bottom for taking pictures. Product shots with descriptions.Click pictures for larger versions. Go here to see the owners manual, and make sure you tip the site owner. Other versions there is an ‘Optima’ Reflex that looks similar, but it has a different body and a light meter. Good features good quality lens, solid and well built, cable release socket on top of shutter button, and excellent focusing device. Has five shutter blades and a ten speed Prontor shutter from 1 second to 1/500s, plus bulb mode.įlash does not have a built-in flash or cold shoe, but has a PC socket for flash use.Īccessories for this model an Ever-Ready carrying case, and a close up attachment, good for between 15-32″.Ĭrippling features and omissions no flash shoe, double exposure prevention over-ride, or self timer. Shutter and speed Prontor 500, has five straight aperture blades and stops down from F/2.8 to F/22, but doesn’t seem to close much at all from F/16 to F/22. A 49mm pinch type cap fits over the lenses perfectly. Lens Agfa Color Apotar 45mm F/2.8 coated glass three element type. ![]() ![]() No parallax correction needed as the two lenses are so close together.Īpproximate resolution good film and technique will make excellent 8×10″ and good 11×14″ prints. Eye level ‘sports finder’ has bright coated glass facing the front, and what looks like flat uncoated glass at the rear where you look through. Viewfinder waist level type with ground glass and split image rangefinder has a magnifier that flips up for critical focus, and it works well. 51° diagonal angle of view.Īperture manually set and marked in one stop increments only, and there are no ‘detents,’ so in-between settings are possible.įocusing distance 3.0′ to infinity, or 1.0m to infinity. Weight my measurements camera body, no film: 26.5oz (752g).ĭimensions my measurements 5.25″ (132mm), long 3.9″ (99mm) tall with viewfinder closed 2.6″ (66mm) deep at infinity focus.įocal length 45mm. Current eBay prices range anywhere from $75 to $150 or more depending on condition and if it comes with the original box etc.īuild material mostly metal with a good fit and finish. Price unsure, I’m guessing in the range of $100-$125.00 in the early 1960s. Manufactured by Agfa-Gevaert AG, München, Germanyĭate of manufacture approximately 1960-1961. Name Agfa Reflex, also called ‘Flexilette.’ So with the intro out of the way, let’s start off with some specs and pictures! The Agfa Reflex-Flexilette is not your average boring fixed lens 35mm camera, it’s really pretty neat, and quite different. The owner’s manual suggests different shooting situations where this type of viewfinder would come in handy such as holding it over your head upside down to shoot over a crowd or fence, or at ground level while in a crouch position, or even sneaking shots around a corner so no one can see you! The viewfinder even comes with a handy swing-up focus magnifier, which makes precise focusing easy. ![]() ![]() The real oddity here is not just the two lenses in front, it’s the viewfinder that springs up and allows you to see a bright ground glass reversed image, along with the split image rangefinder patch in the middle. The taking lens is an Agfa Color Apotar 45mm F/2.8 three element type, and is surprisingly sharp with a smooth background blur, see pictures below. The gigantic circular front protrusion houses two lenses, one for taking the picture, and one for setting the composition and focus. This was an impulse ebay purchase, and thankfully it showed up in good overall shape, and works correctly. It’s quite large and heavy for a 135 (35mm) format camera, and one of the few TLR ‘twin lens reflex’ 35mm cameras made. This odd looking beast is known as an Agfa Reflex in the Americas, or Flexilette in Europe and surrounding areas.
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