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Omar Shah
Junior
Posts: 2
From: Pakistan
Registered: Feb 2010

posted February 10, 2010 01:10 PM

Hello,

I am new to all this so, I would like your help with the above mentioned Agfa projector. Although, my father has been a camera collector but, sadly, he doesn't know his projectors.

I found this, Agfa Sonector 8 (may be it says 8S on it), in our store and I dont know a thing about it. What I wanna know is, was it a good projector back in its days? How good was it? What is it worth now? The case is rusty but the inside looks pretty ok.

Where can I kind more info about it? How do I restore it?

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Claus Harding
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1149
From: Washington DC
Registered: Oct 2006

posted February 10, 2010 01:31 PM

Hello, Omar, and welcome.

This is very little, but it's a start:

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.super8-projektor.de/index.php%3Fsite%3Dprojektoren%26hersteller%3D3%26preview%3D247&ei=YgdzS-iuIumB8QaF8oi8Cw&sa=X&oi =translate&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CBcQ7gEwBTgK&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dagfa%2Bsonector%2B8%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26start%3D10

At least it gives you the lamp type and such.

Claus.

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Douglas Meltzer
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From: New York, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted February 10, 2010 07:28 PM

Omar,

Welcome to the 8mm Forum!

According to Jurgen Lossau's book "Movie Projectors", the Agfa Sonector is worth approximately $50 US.

Now if the Agfa "Sonector-Phon" is also in that rusty case then it would be worth at least three times as much. The Sonnector-Phon is a base unit that attaches to the underside of the projector and enables the Sonector 8 to play standard 8mm sound films.

Doug

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