This started with a postwar Model A2B that I won in auction, clean looking, and I had high hopes for it. But as I delved into the restoration, the camera was one disaster after another, and in the end it could not be saved.
So I removed the nice shiny top knobs and started going through my "parts" cameras and cobbled together a mixed model camera with pieces gleaned from four different cameras, composed from four distinct variants of the Model A series Argus. There were many glitches I had to work through, but in the end, I had a working example, and it tested out well in all functions. I did have to give up the collapsible barrel feature, but retained the two position focusing, which tested at 15 feet for near, and somewhere around 100 feet for far.
The proof would be in the film exposures.

I loaded a roll of outdated freezer stock Fuji 200 and and packed a bag, the Hybrid Argus A sharing space with a Pentax K110 D. The "three of us" headed up to the National Museum of Transportation (a short drive from home).

Results from the Pentax Digital are posted in my previous gallery.

Oh by the way, the view of the pedestrian bridge was from Powder Valley, a few days earlier.

The film from the Argus went into a tank of freshly mixed Caffenol solution yesterday after dinner, followed by 2 and a half hours in a salt solution Fixer.
Film dried hanging over night, and today I scanned the filmstrip with my Epson and then worked through it in software to tweak it to what you see below. As usual for me, the monochrome Caffenol results were tinted software Sepia.
And as usual with my Caffenol, the Epson balked at the weird quality of the dense film, but I wrestled through it.

Please click on thumbnails to see enlarged.
All images are ©2020 E.J.Kowalski.
Thanks! Ed