# 35 Agfa Isolette V

Em português 

As I told you before: I'm a sucker for Isolettes.

This time I'm going to introduce you to my Isolette V.

This one like some other cameras in my collection came from the *Bay.

At the time this one arrived home I had already three sisters of hers: 

Isolette 4,5, Isolette III and Isolette II

This is a very nice example of an Isolette V.

Manufactured by Agfa Cameraverk München, around 1950

It's a folding bellows, auto erect camera.

The lens is an Agfa Agnar 4,5/85 on a three speed Vario shutter, by Gauthier (AGC):
1/25, 1/75, 1/200 sec. and B, with  flash synch.

It uses 120 film producing twelve 6 x 6 cm exposures per roll.

The film advance, using the round, knurled knob on the top left of the camera is controlled by a ruby window on the back door.

On the right strut, a button, marked as T, if pulled up, in the arrow direction, blocks the shutter release, and,  if the B position on the shutter is chosen, it gives time exposures. 
The shutter release is that chromed tab by the shutter barrel, above the T button

and not, as we might expect, the button on the top plate, that's the front door release.

Like in the other basic models there is no rangefinder or exposure meter but, it has an accessory shoe where I sometimes use a rangefinder and for the exposure assessment an hand-held exposure meter or the sunny 16 rule does the trick.

Some pictures taken with it:

On the above picture I'm using a combination rangefinder/light-meter branded Repometer

Stay tuned (o;