Lama,
The Cintar lens on the C-3 is simple, but a good one and I rate it
definitely above average and quite surprising for a camera that inexpensive
in its era. I have a huge archive of my father's Kodachromes shot from the
early 1950's into the early 1980's that are a testament to its sharpness
and resolution. I would guess your sticky shutter is the culprit, or
perhaps camera shake, or maybe a lens that someone has abused or
reassembled improperly. It should be anything but soft.
The C-3 is the Ford Model A of cameras. Everything you need for a 35mm
camera, nothing more and nothing less. The Argus cameras were born out of
a radio company in Chicago. Demand for radios was seasonal and the owner
of the company needed something to keep his bakelite production line for
radio cases busy during the months with lower demand for radios. He hit
upon the idea of making camera bodies, and thus the bakelite bodied Argus
was born. If Oskar Barnack and his Leica A get credit for being the first
successfully marketed still camera to use Edison size film, the Argus
deserves credit for solidifying the format's survival. Millions of them
were sold. You are using a piece of history and many, like me, have
archives of slides bulging with family photographs from holidays and
vacations shot with an Argus C-3.
-- John
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