Argus C-4 - 1951
• Sleek follow-on to wildly popular C-3
• $99.50 in 1951 ($834 in 2010 dollars)
What a shock the launch of this camera must have been! To follow the clunky-looking C-3, the brick, with this beauty that looks like a real camera.
The C-4 is well done, with a large combination view/rangefinder and convenient controls. Unlike the C-3, it didn't have interchangeable lenses, but in 1956 that was remedied with the C-44.
My C-4 was a gift from a fellow photo.net member. It wasn't on my list of cameras to get, but it should have been. Works very well, too, as you can see from the photos I took.
(Argus calls it the C-4 in advertising, the C4 in the instruction manual, and the C-four on the camera itself.)
Read More• $99.50 in 1951 ($834 in 2010 dollars)
What a shock the launch of this camera must have been! To follow the clunky-looking C-3, the brick, with this beauty that looks like a real camera.
The C-4 is well done, with a large combination view/rangefinder and convenient controls. Unlike the C-3, it didn't have interchangeable lenses, but in 1956 that was remedied with the C-44.
My C-4 was a gift from a fellow photo.net member. It wasn't on my list of cameras to get, but it should have been. Works very well, too, as you can see from the photos I took.
(Argus calls it the C-4 in advertising, the C4 in the instruction manual, and the C-four on the camera itself.)
