1926-1933 / Agfa Standard Model 254 or 264 / Vintage Camera

The Agfa Standard Model 254 (and its variant 264 with a coupled rangefinder introduced later) is a metal-bodied folding camera designed for 6×9 cm images on 120 roll film, produced by Agfa from around 1926 to the mid-1930s. It was available with lenses such as the Trilinear f/6.3 or f/4.5 and featured shutter speeds ranging from 1/2 to 1/100 second, often equipped with the Automat shutter made by Gauthier, and sometimes upgraded to a Compur shutter with faster speeds. The camera was offered in a normal black leather finish or a Luxus light brown leather option, which also influenced lens and shutter choices. It includes features like a brilliant finder that rotates for portrait and landscape orientation, a wire frame finder, and a focusing mechanism that moves the entire lens unit on a helical mount. The coupled rangefinder version (Model 264) offered enhanced focusing convenience. The camera is historically notable for its versatile optics, folding design, and was part of Agfa’s broader Standard range that covered various film and plate sizes. Some models were fitted with specialized lenses such as the Krauss Quatryl. Overall, it represents a high-quality medium format camera from the late 1920s to early 1930s era, combining portability, good optics, and mechanically reliable shutters.