Agfa Silette S Serial Number Inscribed In

Its shutters are Pronto (125-1200), Prontor (1300) Compur-Rapid or Synchro-Compur (1500).

In the USA, it was known as the Ansco Memar.

The purpose of the second window is intensified brightness in order to limit the centring errors due to the parallax.

We have distinguished them in chronological order based on obvious changes.

Here in the states we had this camera as the Ansco Super Memar f 2.

I have a couple of Ambi-Silettes and a Karat with the very good Solinar lens, but this little Silette has the 50mm Solagon f2, Agfas top-of-the range lens that is usually ranked up there with the Ultron and the Xenar, and which I thought was reserved for Agfas higher quality cameras.

To my surprise, I spotted this in a local auction, and further research suggests that a Super Silette with a Solagon lens is a somewhat rare item.

I havent cleaned it yet, but its really quite tidy, with a slight amount of the usual plating deterioration on the front panel and normal wear on the leatherette.

The rangefinder is working, the shutter seems sweet and the focusing is smooth, and if the rain ever stops Ill run a film and post some images.

If anyone has any experience with this particular model of the Silette, please add to this post.

I saw you had bought this on Trademe, and wondered when you would feature it.

Superb lens and the shutter still works well after all these years.

Not as rare as they used to be, since the advent of the internet marketplace.

I have one of these, and also have an Ansco Super Memar, a virtually identical unit, made for the American market.

My Super Memar has a black film counter instead of silver, the distance scale is in feet instead of meters, it does not have the Agfa logo on the lower right front and is inscribed Ansco Super Memar f.2 around the front of the lens mount.

Agfa Silette S Serial Number Inscribed In

There is also a serial number inscribed in the mounting shoe.

Id post a picture but I dont do digital The last time I tried to post a scanned film image on this site I gave up after a lot of frustration.

Most of the images of this Silette I found show the logo and I wondered why this one isnt marked.

Does your Silette have the engraved red logo And yours, John.

Exposure was 160 f5.6.I developed the film in PMK Pyro along with some other stuff I was doing; there were no problems and Im impressed by my brief acquaintance with the Solagon.

Its a very sharp and contrasty lens, making a rather dull corner of the garden look quite sunlit.

Do you realize how very few of the worlds population can say this Looking forward to seeing more from it.

Perhaps you are thinking of the Agfa Karat 35mm folder These did have the red logo between the windows.

The other nifty thing it has, is a pull-out foot, below the lens.

Thanks for your replies, John and Marco; the photographs Ive seen of the have versions show a red logo identical to the one on my Karat folder.

Yes, JDM, the Silettes in their various models seem to have been very popular in New Zealand, and the simpler models can be acquired for slightly less than a song.

The construction and components of the later models (such as the one in the advertisement you posted) became progressively lighter and more prone to failure, and its Silettes of the same era as this Super that I seem to have accumulated.

Theyre very similar to the early Kodak Retinettes, another simple camera I like.

Agfa Silette Serial Numbers