Ilford Sprite 35 II Black Silver

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The Agifold was Agilux's small range of 6x6 medium format folding cameras for 120 rollfilm. It was first introduced in 1948 and this first model was a relatively simple folding camera with one special feature, a small top-view viewfinder. The Agifold II had an additional extinction meter (a special type of lightmeter) as well as uncoupled rangefinder. The Agifold III was mostly a cosmetic upgrade to a much more modern-looking camera. The Ilford Sprite 35-II is a wonderful entry-level film camera from Ilford! It continues the 'Sprite' heritage from the 1960s original model, and will meet the needs of people experimenting with 35mm film and looking for a camera that’s ‘no frills’ simple. In 1959, ICI acquired a majority share holding in Ilford. In 1963 Ciba AG, Switzerland, which had bought Lumiere, France, the preceding year, and which already owned Swiss photographic coating company Tellko, began to acquire shares in Ilford as part of a commercial co-operation between Ciba and Ilford to develop Ciba's dye-bleach print material for making prints directly from colour transparencies. Originally called Cilchrome ('Cil' derived from the names Ciba, Ilford and Lumière) the eventual product name was Cibachrome. The title is meant a little tongue in cheek, Britain was never really known for its great camera industry, unless perhaps in the very early days, but it nevertheless had some well-respected brands and included some great cameras. Most of mine do not belong to this category (they tend to be pricey, even, or especially, here in the UK), but rather are part of the cheap and cheerful models characterising most of British post-war camera production. Due to their generally smaller production numbers, higher-quality British cameras such as the Ilford Advocate, the Ensign Multi, the Corfield Periflex range, let alone Reid and Wrayflex models, are equally highly-priced as highly-prized these days. Haking is a Hong Kong based company that still exists and has produced a varied range of cameras under the name Halina from the late 1950s onwards. Technically perhaps not British but part of the British Empire and many of the cameras were marked 'Empire Made'. The cameras were more style than substance but many have stood the test of time and are available very cheaply. Halina 35X

In 1871, Richard Maddox suggested using gelatin as an emulsion rather than collodion and, following further experiments by John Burgess, Richard Kennett and Charles Harper Bennett, gelatin dry plates began to be sold commercially—first by the Liverpool Dry Plate company in 1874, but others soon followed. These plates were around 60 times more sensitive to light than collodion plates and could be exposed in a fraction of a second. Ilford recommends using ISO 200 and 400 films with the Ilford Sprite 35-II. ISO 200 is great for full sun, while ISO 400 film works for every scenario, including when taking snapshots at sunset and sunrise, or when taking images at night with the flash on. Not really made in Britain but in Western Germany by Dacora, as indicated on the top housing. However, it was branded Ilford and sold as such. Dacora made many cameras for Ilford, including the Sporti and Sportsman range. The 1962 Sportsman Auto RF was one of the most highly specified models of the Sportsman range. It featured a coupled rangefinder as well as a coupled (not really automatic) light meter. The equivalent Dacora model was the Dignette E-B (German for rangefinder and light meter: Entfernungsmesser - Belichtungsmesser). AGI was a London-based lens maker that branched out into cameras for several years after WWII. The company built several folding rollfilm cameras as well as 35mm cameras and lenses sold under the name Agilux. The company still exists, although it is now based in Dorset and no longer makes cameras. In 1901, it took the name of the town to become Ilford Limited, which was disputed by the local council. The matter was settled by placing a comma between the word Ilford and Limited, giving Ilford, Limited; the comma was finally removed in 1951. [3]After acquiring or making the base material, the first stage is usually the preparation of photographic emulsion. Since the late 19th century, this emulsion has usually been silver salts dispersed in gelatin (along with other dyes and chemicals) which gives us silver gelatin prints, dry plates and films. Other emulsions are used to make alternative processes. Features a manual film advance winding lever that moves through each exposure & rewinds the roll when finished. Holliman, Andrew J. Faces, People and Places: The Cameras of Ilford Ltd., 1899 to 2005. ISBN 0-9545342-1-2

MPP Microcord Mark I with Ross London Xpres 77.5 mm f/3.5 lens in Epsilon shutter, although this name wasn't marked on the camera. The viewing lens was a slightly faster f/3.2. The base or ‘support’ of an analogue photograph—usually glass, film or paper—must go through various stages of preparation before it is ready to take a picture. The Swiss part of the company; Ilford Imaging Switzerland GmbH, and the plant at Marly was bought by the Oji Paper Company of Japan in July 2005. It produced inkjet products and high quality colour photographic products. It was subsequently sold onto Paradigm Global Partners LLP in May 2010 before being declared bankrupt on 9 December 2013 resulting in the closure of the Marly plant. [11] [12] Agilux Agifold III with Agilux Anastigmat 75mm f/4.5 lens in flash-synchronised Agilux leaf shutter, similar to the shutter found on the Agimatic shown below. Top view of different example of the Ensign Multex (not a model. 0, although it appears to be identical and even the serial# is very close) showing the various camera controls. Most obvious is the wind/speed knob. One switches between slow and fast speeds by pushing the bar with speed markers to the left or right. The small button top left of the speed dial needs to be pushed in for the speed dial to be moved. Shutter speeds need to be set before winding, as the winding of the shutter itself determines the gap between first and second curtains, i.e., the shutter speed. The button bottom right reset the frame counter to 0.

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I use a selection of Ondu pinhole cameras, lovingly crafted from ash and walnut in Slovenia by Elvis Halilovic. The tactile experience of working with a wooden camera is a joy and the clever engineering and design work put into them makes winding the film and opening the shutter seamlessly easy. With pinhole photography the size of your negative directly affects the detail and (relative) sharpness of the finished images so I prefer to use the larger 120 and 4x5 film formats. It’s no secret that the Ilford Sprite 35-II cameras do not capture sharp images. But that’s not what this camera is about. speed B&W films, like Ilford HP5, also perform extremely well in this camera when shooting contrasty scenes. B&W films work best when there is a simple composition and good light. So as a general rule, I use color film when taking snapshots of friends, and throw in some HP5 or Kentmere films when out for walks. Which films should I avoid using with the Ilford Sprite 35-II?

Ilford Advocate camera, Series II | Science Museum Group Collection". collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk . Retrieved 17 November 2021. On 14 September 2015, 10 years on from the original management buy-out, Ilford Photo announced that Harman Technology Limited had been acquired by Pemberstone Ventures Ltd. [23] Some popular brands to consider are Printfile, Kenro and Clearfile. But there are many others. Can I still use my old film it’s out of date? Ilford Super Sporti Camera | Science Museum Group Collection". collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk . Retrieved 17 November 2021.The Ensign Multex was a for the time very well-specified rangefinder camera for 127 rollfilm (3x4 cm) introduced in 1935. It featured a focal plane shutter with speeds from 1s down to 1/1000s. It had a telescopic lens (like on screw mount Leicas) and a closest focus of nearly 0.5m. It had several clever features including a pressure plate that was released during film winding (a similar feature was found on the Voigtlander Vitessa). The rangefinder window was magnified, so one had to frame the shot with the separate viewfinder. A variety of lenses was available, most commonly an Ensign Multar Anastigmat f/3.5 but also a Ross Express f/2.9 or a Tessar f/2.8. The camera had a square 4x4 frame size, otherwise the shutter system would not have worked (or rather, landscape and portrait photos would have been made at different shutter speeds). Due to the shutter system with the moving blinds, the camera was rather big for its frame size. The camera's design was covered by several patents from as early as 1933 although the shutter speed control and body shape of the production model were different from the one pictured in the patents. Learn how to get the most out of your new Ilford Sprite 35mm-II Camera and the ins and outs of the film photography game in our Beginner’s Master Guide to Film Photography -- totally actionable and totally free!

Ilford Imaging Switzerland shuts down factory – Amateur Photographer". Amateur Photographer. 16 December 2013 . Retrieved 31 January 2018. The colour did probably not help the camera's popularity, as it didn't look as professional as indeed its lens was. It appears to have been aimed at women, based on them handling the camera in most ads I've seen, but it was a quite heavy and not particularly 'cute' camera. I got an opinion of one (my wife), who, when she first saw it, without being asked, said: 'what's that ugly camera?' Admittedly, she says that about most of my cameras, but she clearly wasn't endeared, and it appears neither were British women from the 1950s. Helen Hooker is a musician and photographer based in the east of England. A switch to digital photography in 2004 reinvigorated a dormant interest in photography, providing an immersive hobby and a distraction from the demands of life as a busy professional musician. A ten year long 365 project followed and towards the end of this period Helen began exploring the possibilities of film photography once again.While Ilford doesn’t advertise this, the aperture does get larger when you turn on the flash. That means you can get a brighter exposure by turning on the flash — even if you’re taking landscape photos. An Ensign Multex model.0 with collapsible Ensign Multar 50mm f/3.5 lens. Although the lens style is quite similar to that of the Leitz Elmar, it has a much larger 43mm thread, and doesn't fit on any other cameras that I know. The Purma Special was introduced around 1937 and designed by Purvis and Mayo (hence the name Purma). It was a rather stylish but unusual looking camera made from bakelite which took 127 rollfilm. The Purma had a collapsible fixed focus lens as well as a fixed aperture, so exposure was purely controlled by its shutter. And herein lies the Purma's uniqueness: although the shutter was a simple spring-wound moving slit (i.e., a focal plane shutter), the way the speeds were controlled was unique. In essence, by holding the camera vertical or horizontal you would change the shutter speed, but in addition the way you held it vertical (rotating it 180 degrees) would change the speed. This system was controlled by an asymmetrical metal wheel that served two purposes: it changed the width of the slit and when held vertical, it would either counter or enhance the spring action, thus reducing or increasing the shutter speed. This resulted in a three-speed shutter with speeds of ca. 1/25, 1/150 and 1/450. For a camera of this specification that was a very fast top speed, so it is no surprise that the camera was advertised as 'the world's fastest candid camera (at its price)'. The Agiflex is somewhat notorious for its unreliable shutter, apparently the speeds weren't very accurate, certainly on the first model. Mine indeed doesn't work very well, but interestingly it runs fine when removed from the body. It turns out there is only very little room inside the body and as the shutter cloth is quite old it is not as flexible as it used to be, and rubs against the frame. Perhaps it even rubs with new clothes, which may explain the unreliable and too slow speeds.