Karat IV - Agfa - 1950/1956



This camera combines the disadvantages of a bellow for a 35mm with the disadvantages of not having a folding door to always cover the lens, shutter, etc. when not in use. Another thing that I don't really like is that if you wind the film and fire when you have forgot to cock the shutter you loose a picture. Thats because the double exposure prevention will oblige you to wind again. A third problem is that is doesn't use regular cartridges of 35 mm film. It uses the Rapid from Agfa. It means you have to load some cassetes in a darkroon in advance. I think this cassetes, like the ones used by Robot, borrowed the idea of 120 format where the film passes from one spool to the other. But 120 format doesn't use cassetes and that makes it convenient. No wonder I have no pictures to show.




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