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AGFA was the abbreviation for Aktien-Gesellschaft fur Anilin-Fabrikation, given in 1873 to a company founded in Berlin in 1867. It produced chemicals for photography. Most famous is the film developer Rodinal, introduced in 1892 and...
AGFA was the abbreviation for Aktien-Gesellschaft fur Anilin-Fabrikation, given in 1873 to a company founded in Berlin in 1867. It produced chemicals for photography. Most famous is the film developer Rodinal, introduced in 1892 and continued for 115 years. When Agfa obtained the Rietzschel camera works in Munich from Bayer in 1925, it badged all Rietzschel products with its Agfa rhombus. In 1926 it introduced the first real Agfa camera, the Standard. In 1927 the successful Billy camera series was introduced. In 1930 the first Agfa Box camera for 6x9 cm exposures was produced. In 1937 it brought out its first camera for 35mm film.
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