Shooting my 90 year old camera! Agfa box 54!

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A couple of weeks a go i went to a secondhand store and there i found this beauty!

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An Agfa box 54 camera from 1930! This camera has got 2 settings, bulp and... yes what is it... i read online that the shutter speed was something like 1/60 of a second and other site tells me it's more like 1/30 of a second.

I couldn't find anything about the diaphragm and just measured the aperture! my guess was F11, i really don't know :p
I went to an open area in the nature reserve near my house and brought my canon with me so i could find a compositing where i needed a shutter speed of 1/60 of a second.

For now i could only find a 100 ISO film so i needed to go out in the middle of the day! Not the best time to do some photographing but it just was a good test

The shutter button was not a button but a more like a slider, i tested wen there was no film in there but outside it got stuck a little so the first picture faild

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I really wanted to have a picture of that tree because i have many pictures of it so i took another one! This time the shutter was not stuck!

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When i saw the negatives i saw there were many scratches on the photo's. When i opened the camera i saw the roller over which the photo was transported was not properly attached. I fixed that again so the next roll should go well.
I actually wanted to take pictures where you can't see that it was taken now. So no technology in the picture. I tink I did good :)

Here are the rest of the photo's!

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