Photography: Argus C3
Posted on May 16, 2009
Filed Under Journal
Last winter, I almost bought the Canon 5D Mark II. I bought this camera instead. $13 on ebay, sweet leather case included. It was a way of purposefully limiting myself gear-wise, and rediscovering film. Plus, I had a strong hunch that Canon would be coming out with the poor man’s version of the 5D before long, and that proved to be true.
The Argus C3 has a lot of history behind it. You can read about it here. Most importantly, it seems to be responsible for 35mm becoming the dominant film format. In other words, defining photography as most of us know it; including digital.
I’ll talk a little more about how the camera works in later posts, and get some sample images up. For now, I will say that it’s really fun to use and figure out.