Agfa Selectronic 2
Auto-only SLR camera cosmetically redesigned from a Chinon CA-4/4s chassis, part of Agfa's final film camera series.
Overview
The Agfa Selectronic 2 is an auto-only SLR from Agfa's last line of film cameras, built as the 1970s turned into the 1980s. Agfa (Germany) and Chinon (Japan) made it together, and the internal chassis comes from the Chinon CA-4/4s. Schlagheck-Schultes redesigned the body to look like an Agfa. It has a smoother body covering with a light texture and a big red 'sensor punkt' shutter button. Metering is open and switches on when the shutter button is half-depressed. That design came over from Chinon.
Specifications
| Shutter | Electromagnetic shutter, stepless from 1 second to 1/1000th |
| Flash sync | X flash setting set to a mechanical 1/100th |
| Power | Runs on readily available cheap LR44 alkaline cells, silver oxide SR44 |
| Mount | Pentax K mount |
| Standard lens | Agfa Color Multi Coated 50mm f/1.4 |
Design
Agfa built the Selectronic 2 around the existing Chinon CA-4/4s chassis and kept all its features. The exterior got Agfa styling, including the smoother body covering and the large red 'sensor punkt' shutter button that Agfa cameras first got in the late 1960s. The 'sensor punkt' is described as easy to find and good for reducing camera shake. Some users report trouble half-pressing it without tripping the shutter, which often gives accidental exposures.
Context
The Selectronic 2 is the auto-only model in a trio of SLRs. The other two are the manual-exposure Selectronic 1 and the fully-featured Selectronic 3. Agfa launched the Selectronic series as part of a broader push into 35mm camera systems during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Bayer took Agfa over in 1981, and by the early 1980s Agfa had stopped making cameras in-house. All later models, the Selectronic series included, were OEM products made by Chinon. Agfa officially ended camera production in 1983.
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