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Few cameras have gone through life with three nicknames like this Argus C3 'Match-Matic'. Shortly after its introduction in 1958, it was nicknamed "The American Leica" by the American press, but the American public, who also called the very first Argus C3 from 1939 "The Brick", gave it the name "Yellow Brick". He kept that nickname until in 1999 actor Colyn Greevy used it in the movie "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"; since then he has been called a "Harry Potter camera". The Argus 'C3 Match-Matic' was produced from 1958 to 1966 as an updated version of the original classic design of the Argus C3 from 1939 and was also the last model of the C3 series built. The C3 Matchmatic is built just as simply as its 'C3' predecessors, a rectangular camera body of black polished Bakelite with shiny metal edges, but with a much more elegant and chic finish with two-colored artificial leather. The turning wheels and knobs are made of anodized and polished aluminum. The Sintar f: 3.5 / 50 mm standard lens (a coated four-element triplet) - according to Argus experts very qualitatively comparable to the famous Leitz Elmar f: 3.5 / 5 cm objective - is interchangeable (in a very cumbersome way) for 35-90 or 135 mm lenses.
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