Film Camera
Afilm camera
Ambi Silette
Format
35mm
System
Agfa Ambi Silette
Is Film
Yes
Maker Line
AGFA CAMERA-WERKE AG, MUENCHEN
Spec Notes
Name and shutter from Agfa's own instruction book. WEIGHT OMITTED: a museum object record gives 700 g and does not state whether that includes the lens; other figures of 705 g and 533 g circulate. FILTER SIZE OMITTED: Agfa's book says all three lenses share a 37 mm outside-diameter FRONT CELL - not a filter thread - while a collector reference gives 35 mm / 40.5 mm / 62 mm; the two are not reconcilable from any source. RANGEFINDER BASE OMITTED: single weak source. PRODUCTION START CONFLICT: a museum object record gives 1956 and a museum chronology 1956/58, against 1957 in three collector references and 1957-1959 in a fourth; the range row takes the museum figure at medium confidence. Production years bound the MODEL, not an individual specimen. Sources differ on whether they describe first production or first market release and none says which.
Shutter Make
Synchro-Compur (Deckel)
Produced 1956–1961 · medium confidencehttps://www.kameramuseum.de/objekte/agfa-ambi-silette/Museum object record, production-period field, 1956-1961. CONFLICT RECORDED: three collector references give a 1957 start and a fourth 1957-1959; one of them says European marketing began in January 1957, which would make 1957 a MARKET date rather than a production date, but NO SOURCE STATES THAT and it is not assumed here. The museum figure is taken on tier, at medium confidence, and is cheap to reverse.
Category: Film Camera
Format
35mm
System
Agfa Ambi Silette
Maker Line
AGFA CAMERA-WERKE AG, MUENCHEN
Spec Notes
Name and shutter from Agfa's own instruction book. WEIGHT OMITTED: a museum object record gives 700 g and does not state whether that includes the lens; other figures of 705 g and 533 g circulate. FILTER SIZE OMITTED: Agfa's book says all three lenses share a 37 mm outside-diameter FRONT CELL - not a filter thread - while a collector reference gives 35 mm / 40.5 mm / 62 mm; the two are not reconcilable from any source. RANGEFINDER BASE OMITTED: single weak source. PRODUCTION START CONFLICT: a museum object record gives 1956 and a museum chronology 1956/58, against 1957 in three collector references and 1957-1959 in a fourth; the range row takes the museum figure at medium confidence. Production years bound the MODEL, not an individual specimen. Sources differ on whether they describe first production or first market release and none says which.
Shutter Make
Synchro-Compur (Deckel)
Shutter Type
leaf
Shutter Speeds
B, 1, 2, 4, 8, 15, 30, 60, 125, 250, 500
Viewfinder Type
Optical Rangefinder
Max Shutter Speed
1/500
Viewfinder Frames
35, 50 and 90 mm reflected frames; the 50 mm frame is emphasised with thick lines and rounded corners
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