The Ansco Super Memar was manufactured by the Agfa company of Munich for Ansco of Binghamton, New York from approximately 1956 to 1959. Designed similar to the Ansco Memar but with a coincidence-type coupled rangefinder and improved optics. The camera body was made of die-cast metal and covered in black leather. The exposed metal parts were finished in satin chrome. It was fitted with a color corrected and coated f3.5 Agfa Apotar anastigmat lens mounted into a Prontor LVS shutter providing speeds from 1 to 1/300 of a second, plus bulb. Features included flash synchronization, an optical eye-level finder, thumb-lever film transport moves film into position-counts exposures and sets shutter, and a film type indicator with ASA calibrations. All settings are visible from above the camera The Ansco Super Memar was originally priced at $74.50.

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