Most popular Argus ugliest camera ever Deprecated: Function split() is deprecated in /home/rochkind/public_html/Photography/ph_common.php on line 496 $30 with f3.5 lens in 1940 ($467 in 2010 dollars) Argus came out with the C3 (the "brick") just a few years after the Argus A, and the C3 was even more popular. They kept making them, with improvements from time-to-time, for an incredible 27 years. I have no idea when mine was made. I got it at a local swap meet for $7 which, I later discovered, was much more than it was worth, being so beat up. But I don't care. If you want to read more about the Argus C3, Google it—there's tons of stuff on the web. Here's an ad from the December 1951 issue of Popular Photography: