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Part of my un-done backlog is an "essay" on Arguses (Argii)

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Argus c-four

 

Its descendant, the interchangeable lens C-44, was anticipated by some suppliers:

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Modern Photography 1961-08

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My first 35mm camera was an Argus C-44. I mowed lawns all summer, hoping to buy a C-4. When the time came, all the store had was a C-44. I forget what I paid, but it was probably under $80. I used it religiously for 8 years, but never bought a second lens.
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Aw heck, here's the C-44 (note that the camera says "c-forty-four") and its lenses. Steinheil of Munich did the tele and the wide-angle.

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If'n I live, I guess I'll get to report, but for now....

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Thanks for this thread - really interesting; and great photos JDMvW. I have a couple of Steinheil Munchen 135's, one in an LTM mount, one in a Pentax screw mount. They perform well (though it's not hard to make a good 135mm). I understand that Argus was the romanised name of αργος πανοπτες (koine greek for argos panoptes - the all seeing one). The romanised plural would probably be argii, but the koine greek plural would be αργοι (argoi, at least in the nominative).

 

Look forward to your report, JDMvW. Were the other lenses made by third parties? Regards, Arthur (apiarist1)

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The Tessar-type Cintagon 50mm f/2.8 was manufactured in Ann Arbor, Michigan according to Camerapedia.

 

The romanised plural would probably be argii, but the koine greek plural would be αργοι (argoi, at least in the nominative).

 

No doubt, but I am in that much cited 18th c category of "little Latin and no Greek" :D

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Ah, you bring back memories, JDMvW. Bembrick's textbook: paro, paras, parat...the cat sat under the mat. My memory of latin is distant, but sharp at times. Future pluperfect: that which will have been. I love that tense. It's there in koine greek, too. And a bit different. And just knowing some basic grammar. Thanks for that. I doubt that you are from the 18th c CE.

 

Cintagon (is that a take-out of a curtagon)? Tessar type? Coated?

 

And I wait for your report on the argus. I'm surprised that there was a lens production facility at Ann Arbor (I'm from Oz - there was very little lens production here).

 

So I'm adding a picture: a fakir, an old, archived, recovered shot. 'Moments lost in time, like tears lost in rain'. Take care, regards, and thanks, Arthur (apiarist1).

 

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