From Camerapedia,
In 1932 the German Agfa company had a new idea for an advertising campaign. German coins had a letter imprinted that indicated the place of minting. Customers should collect four single 1-Mark coins with the letters "A", "G", "F" and "A". With this money in hands money they could avail a special offer of Agfa: the new Box 44. Most box cameras were quite simple. So was the Box 44. But four marks were still a dumping price. The camera was nicknamed "Preisbox". The loss that Agfa made by selling the cameras so cheap was more than compensated with the following sales of Agfa film rolls.
I found this camera without a front plate and the prismatic viewfinders. I paid 5 euros for this. Later I fabricated an art-deco front plate from paper.
The camera has one shutter speed, possibly 1/30 and B and an aperture of f9.5(?). The slow speed made my pictures blurred from camera shake.
I used a 160 ASA Kodak Portra film.
In 1932 the German Agfa company had a new idea for an advertising campaign. German coins had a letter imprinted that indicated the place of minting. Customers should collect four single 1-Mark coins with the letters "A", "G", "F" and "A". With this money in hands money they could avail a special offer of Agfa: the new Box 44. Most box cameras were quite simple. So was the Box 44. But four marks were still a dumping price. The camera was nicknamed "Preisbox". The loss that Agfa made by selling the cameras so cheap was more than compensated with the following sales of Agfa film rolls.
I found this camera without a front plate and the prismatic viewfinders. I paid 5 euros for this. Later I fabricated an art-deco front plate from paper.
I used a 160 ASA Kodak Portra film.
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