The Agfa B2 Cadet is a simple box type camera. Like other box cameras of the time (the early 1900's), the Cadet has two viewfinders - one on the top for portrait photos and one on the side for landscape photos - and a very simple shutter release with a miniscus lens.
A miniscus lens is, for all intents and purposes, a simple curved piece of glass used to help focus the light.
According to https://vintagecameralab.com/agfa-b-2-cadet/ the base shutter speed of the shutter release is 1/60. The camera fits 120 film (or Agfa B2 type film) which is still today the standard "medium format" film.
There is really nothing fancy about this camera at all; in fact, it perfectly fits the term "toy camera" in that it is used primarily by hobbyists for fun. Like me.
I happened to have come across some expired 120 film and felt it would be a good opportunity to test out the camera to see what it might be able to do. I took it to a county fair. Of the roll of 8 photos only 4 really turned out; I am attributing that to still learning just how the camera works as an educational experience. This is how they look untouched.
Now, the film that I used had expired, if memory serves, in 1971, so it was a good long time ago. The chemicals on it have faded some, and so I decided that I shouldn't feel too guilty about performing some post processing on them to give them a little more of a oomph. I used Luminar and ran them through a Green Tint filter with the following results.
Is this how the pictures would have looked had they been taken with non-expired film? It's hard to say. I do, however, like the 1960's technicolor vibe that these images have and, at the end of the day, photography is an art, not a science, and is meant to invoke an emotional response in the viewer.
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(c) Victor Wiebe
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