Agfa Optima 1a
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First produced in 1962, the Agfa Optima 1a was one of the first fully automatic 35mm
film cameras. The successor to German camera manufacturer Agfa's
Optima 1 camera, the camera employed a selenium
cell, which provided the power required to read the light level for the automatic calculation of aperture and shutter speed.
135 film
The term 135 was introduced by Kodak in 1934 as a designation for cartridge film wide, specifically for still photography. It quickly grew in popularity, surpassing 120 film by the late 1960s to become the most popular photographic film format...
film cameras. The successor to German camera manufacturer Agfa's
Agfa-Gevaert
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Optima 1 camera, the camera employed a selenium
Selenium
Selenium is a chemical element with atomic number 34, chemical symbol Se, and an atomic mass of 78.96. It is a nonmetal, whose properties are intermediate between those of adjacent chalcogen elements sulfur and tellurium...
cell, which provided the power required to read the light level for the automatic calculation of aperture and shutter speed.