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The only weird thing is the location of the tripod socket, on the left side rather than the bottom, and I have no idea why they thought this was a problem in need of a solution. The shutter button is easy to find, with a clear pressure point in the center, and the focus ring is nicely dampened, with clear, thunking stops at torso, two people, and mountain. The camera is small, but has a nice heft to it owing to the mostly metal construction, and viewfinder is HUGE and bright, easily double or triple the size of a viewfinder on similar cameras, with incredibly bright frame lines.
The Agfa Optima Sensor electronic 535 is one in a long line of programmed autoexposure cameras from Agfa. It’s not at all what I wanted-a compact rangefinder-or expected, but I gave it a try anyway, and I’m pleasantly surprised…
When I opened the box and found a 535, I was first annoyed, then angered, and later realized it was probably my own mad rush, and not anything nefarious from the seller. They’re fairly rare, and usually in the $100+ range, so when I spotted one on Etsy for $50, I jumped on it. During my mad rush for a compact rangefinder, I went on a hunt for an Agfa Optima Sensor 1535, one of the more unique- and interesting-looking, and one of the last, compact rangefinders out there.
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