The Agfa Movexoom 10 mos Silent camera

[Frank Houiellebecq]

Sorry for the other post, I was not thinking straight, I have just bought this model of Camera, it is the silent version, how do the members rate it ?

[#Pedro]

Hi Frank,
I worked with that a camera back in the 1980ies, until I bought a Beaulieu in 1989. It is a very fine camera with a precise auto-exposure and a easy to handle lap dissolve option. I liked it very much, but I always had had problems in setting the focus with that split image viewfinder. But this is a general problem of any split image viewfinder in movie cameras. The only disadvantage of that camera is, that it needs a lot of light, as it spends a lot of light in a very big and bright viewfinder area. The self timer is damn cool. The 4-frame shooting is a little bit too much for titles, creates a Pinocchio style when used for animations. The lens is sharp and I think that the overall construction is very similar to Nizo, perhaps a cooperation or the same factory. I only changed to Beaulieu because I like to shoot people in action, and that tricky split image was too hard to control for that purposes. I sold this camera 3 weeks ago for DM 200.-.
Pedro