I dropped a roll of film into my Argus C3 in August and it took me until last week to finish shooting the roll. I think that means I didn’t enjoy the experience very much. And I was really looking forward to using this camera.
My C3 dates to 1945 or early 1946 and so was among [...]
The Argus Camera Company of Ann Arbor, Michigan, pretty much single-handedly brought 35mm photography into the mainstream with its C-series rangefinder cameras. The C3 is the best known and most available of the series; millions of them were made between 1939 and 1966.
The C3 was the Volkswagen Beetle of amateur photography – it was relatively [...]
It’s been months since I bought an old camera. I’ve been looking at Argus C3s on eBay for months, looking for the right one. Argus cranked out millions of C3s from 1939 to 1966, and this rugged and relatively inexpensive camera is credited with almost single-handedly popularizing the 35mm film format in the United States. [...]
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