This is an Argus Super Seventy-five. It doesn't really seem very super.
It's a small 2 1/4 square twin lens box made of bakelite. It gets the "super" from it's
lens, which is coated and can be focused. Woo Hoo!
It looks nice. Shiny black plastic and brushed satin finished metal trim.
The shutter release is the rectangular button with the white dot.
The shutter speed seems to be somewhere between 1/30 and 1/50, by my guesstimation.
Aperture is adjustable from f8-f16.
The top opens to reveal the viewing screen (?). It looks more like
an old '50's TV screen, actually. A kind of bulbous glass viewer that
slightly distorts the image at the edges.
See...coated and adjustable.
Here are a few shots I took around town. I used Tri-X re-rolled onto a 620
spool, (the camera takes 620 film). I reduced the development a bit
since the shutter speed/aperture combinations are a bit slow for
400 speed film.
The Blue Fox movie house. I've seen old photos of this
theater from the 30's. It's still pretty much the same,
inside and out.
It's a bench. Could ya tell?
The old barber shop, (one of them, anyway. We have
two of 'em)
Miller Hardware. Same location for over 100 years.
Oscar's restaurant. Built in 1911, if I remember right.
The upstairs is filled with tiny apartments and narrow
corridors that wind around them.
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