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a real brick …

Posted on December 10, 2023 by Robert

Toronto. We have commented on the famous Argus C-3 camera many times, but this beautiful ad was just too hard to pass up. Fondly known as the ‘brick’, the C-3 (C3) was by far the best selling camera of the … Continue reading →

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as easy to set as a clock…

Posted on September 21, 2019 by Robert

Toronto. The old saying “lipstick on a pig” implies cosmetic changes to a product with little or no internal changes. Argus up graded the C-3 in various ways as the camera market evolved. The Match-Matic (sometimes shown as Matchmatic) added … Continue reading →

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the brick

Posted on August 12, 2018 by Robert

Toronto. No, not the famous Canadian furniture discounter, but an American camera made in the very late 1930s to mid 1960s by an Illinois company that touted itself as the “world’s largest manufacturer of 35mm cameras“.  The company began as a … Continue reading →

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