Most recently was an Argus C-44 rangefinder camera. It was only manufactured for one year 1956-57. Argus was really the driving force behind the 35mm film format in the US. They sold millions of the C-3 Brick, C-4 and the C-44.
All of them were made from heavy machined aluminum with lots of decorative touches. For their time they were quite modernistic in appearance and really works of industrial art.
Modeled after the classic Leica rangefinders the Argus C-44 takes great pictures and has all the features one would expect in a well made hand held camera.
• Five preset shutter speeds plus
• Aperture settings from f4-f22
• 50mm f2.8 lens came standard with optional wide angle and telephoto lenses.
So far I've only shot one roll of Kodak Tmax 100 and admittedly some of the dial and settings take some getting used to but I was very pleased with the initial results. I'm looking forward to trying some other low speed black and white films to try to replicate the artistic look of 1950s photographers.
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