Agfa Registrierkamera
The Agfa Registrierkamera is a surveillance camera for traffic, security and industrial processes, made from 1961 to 1970.[1] It appears to have been made for Agfa by Jacknau of Berlin, who made similar traffic cameras under their own brand.[1]
Cameras were made for three different frame-sizes, all on 35mm film. The image may be half-frame (18x24mm), full-frame (24x36mm) or 24mm square.[1] The lens may be a Color-Telinear 90mm f/3.4 lens, as pictured here. The camera was also offered with the common 90mm f/4 Telinear. Other lenses available were a 35mm f/4 Color-Ambion,[2] a 50mm f/2.8 Color-Solinar,[3] and a 130mm f/4 Telinear.[1]
The camera has a single-speed shutter, which may be either 1/100 or 1/500 second, with X-synchronisation, and it is possible to equip the camera with a low-light switch, that causes it to use flash when required.[1] The camera may be set to expose at intervals between half a second and 24 hours.
There is no viewfinder; an example has been seen with a small ground-glass screen on a short arm which mounts in the accessory shoe with the camera-back off to allow focusing.[2]
The camera has two connectors for electrical power and remote control. The box on the front side contains the film advance motor. A long-film cassette holding 17 metres - enough for 450 full-frame exposures - was available as alternate film back. It uses a 12V DC power supply.
  
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Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Registrierkamera at the Deutsches Kameramuseum. Regardless of the list of lenses given above, the Museum's example has a 75mm Rodenstock Rotelar.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Registrierkamera, serial no.102769 with 35mm f/4 Color-Ambion serial no.1513 and ground-glass focusing accessory, offered for sale as Ebay item 383923435169.
- ↑ Registrierkamera outfit comprising the camera with 50mm f/2.8 Color-Solinar serial no.179141, motor drive, 17m magazine and eight spools for it, and two close-up lenses, sold at the 33rd Westlicht Photographica Auction, in November 2018; no photographs.
