I have a fondness for uber-simple vintage cameras. The Argus Super 75 is one of those. I paid $31.58 for my copy (after taxes and shipping). It came with a near-mint case, a user manual and a flash unit. The camera itself was super clean and showed almost no signs of use or wear.

This camera was manufactured between 1949 and 1964. A pretty good run. It has a fixed shutter speed of approximately 1/50th of a second. There are three f-stops to choose from; f8, f11 and f16. It uses 620 sized film. It is a TLR style camera with a waist-level view finder. It has a manual film-advance knob with the standard red window on the back to line up your next frame number.

I shorted my developer by about 10ml and caused the edge of my strip of negatives to not be propertly developed. Rookie mistake.

I took it out with a roll of black and white to a local car show. The images were suprisingly soft. This might be because I didn’t better brace my camera, causing its slow-ish shutter speed to bite me in the ass. Also, I shorted my developer by about 10ml and caused the edge of my strip of negatives to not be properly developed. Rookie mistake. The film was developed in Kodak D-76 1:1.

Despite the soft images and development issue, I was able to salvage a few. I’ll be more careful to use a more sturdy grip/stance on my next photo outing with this camera.