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Most popular Argus ugliest camera ever $30 with f3.5 lens in 1940 ($459 in 2009 dollars)
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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:
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