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Billy II

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The Billy II is a metal-bodied folding camera for 6x9 cm exposures on 120 film (Agfa size B2), made by Agfa in the early 1930s. It is contemporary with the Billy I (formerly named the Billy Igetar 8.8), not a successor to it. Both are listed in a brochure of the early 1930s: the Billy I still has its square-ended body, while the Billy II has round ends. It is smaller in each dimension, and weighs 450g, compared to the Billy I's 500g. The brochure stresses the camera's smallness and lightness, ca

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