Nostalgia This more advanced Silette, made around the same time, has a second light window to power the bright-line viewfinder. Since then I have picked up another version, also made around 1958, in near mint condition. This particular example was older than mine (which I remember had a built-in light meter) but it was a snip at £15. I was reminded that my first proper photographic tool was a Silette, one of a long-running range of precision cameras made between 1953 and the early 70s. Two weeks ago, at the photo fair at the Royal Horticultural Hall in Victoria, I came across a good example of an Agfa Silette 35mm camera. ![]() Manufactured around 1958, this camera has a 45mm f/2.8 Agfa Color Apotar lens and a Prontor-SVS shutter, maximum speed 1/300s. Originally published on MacFilos on The £15 Agfa Silette from the photo fair. I covered this in detail back in 2013 and I thought current readers (there are a lot more of you now than there were then) would welcome a replay. John Shingleton’s reminiscences of the day of Winston Churchill’s funeral and his mention of the camera he used on that day prompted me to mention the camera I owned at that time - an Agfa Silette which I had bought three years previously in 1963. ![]() Delicious pickings at the Royal Horticultural Hall photo fair in London, 2016
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