KODAK RETINA I (type 010)
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1936-1950
Kodak Retina I is a 35mm film folding camera, manufactured by Kodak AG_ Stuttgart, Germany, and produced between 1936-41 and 1945-50.
The original Retina, introduced in 1934, was the first camera to use the modern 35mm film cartridge. The Retina I appeared in 1936 and the line continued on for two decades with a series of model changes.
After WW2, production started again in 1945 as No.010. It was produced only for export until 1949 and the U.S. military. No.010 was almost identical to the pre-war model of the retina I No 148.
My camera is a Type 010, built in Kodak's Stuttgart plant between 1946 and 1949; it is distinguished from the pre-war Type 148 by the presence of a barrel-shaped focus knob rather than the small conical one on the earlier camera. The lens mount is a unit focus design in which the entire lens and shutter assembly moves in and out when the focus ring is rotated.
This model was supplied with either Schneider Xenar (coated or uncoated), Anastigmat Ektar, Kodak-Anastigmat, Kodak Ektar or Rodenstock Ysar lenses in Compur or Compur-Rapid shutters.
Without a rangefinder, focusing was by estimation. A circular depth of field calculator on the base of the camera could be consulted to determine depth of focus at different apertures.
Specifications:
Type: 35mm film folding camera
Built beetwen 1945-1949
Lens: Kodak-Ektar 50mm f/3.5 (Made in USA)
Daylight Loading Cartridge (DLC)
Links:
Retina camera list
Kodak Retina I is a 35mm film folding camera, manufactured by Kodak AG_ Stuttgart, Germany, and produced between 1936-41 and 1945-50.
The original Retina, introduced in 1934, was the first camera to use the modern 35mm film cartridge. The Retina I appeared in 1936 and the line continued on for two decades with a series of model changes.
After WW2, production started again in 1945 as No.010. It was produced only for export until 1949 and the U.S. military. No.010 was almost identical to the pre-war model of the retina I No 148.
My camera is a Type 010, built in Kodak's Stuttgart plant between 1946 and 1949; it is distinguished from the pre-war Type 148 by the presence of a barrel-shaped focus knob rather than the small conical one on the earlier camera. The lens mount is a unit focus design in which the entire lens and shutter assembly moves in and out when the focus ring is rotated.
This model was supplied with either Schneider Xenar (coated or uncoated), Anastigmat Ektar, Kodak-Anastigmat, Kodak Ektar or Rodenstock Ysar lenses in Compur or Compur-Rapid shutters.
Without a rangefinder, focusing was by estimation. A circular depth of field calculator on the base of the camera could be consulted to determine depth of focus at different apertures.
Specifications:
Type: 35mm film folding camera
Built beetwen 1945-1949
Lens: Kodak-Ektar 50mm f/3.5 (Made in USA)
Daylight Loading Cartridge (DLC)
Links:
Retina camera list
KODAK RETINETTE f
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1954-1958
The Kodak Retinette is a series of 35mm viewfinder cameras made in Germany by Kodak AG. They were a budget version of the Retina series, without rangefinders.
Manufactured from 1954 to 1958, Kodak Retinette F is the French market version of the type 022 model. The German manufactured body was apparently fitted with a Kodak Anastigmat Angenieux 45mm f/3.5 and a Kodak shutter in France.
The Kodak Retinette is a series of 35mm viewfinder cameras made in Germany by Kodak AG. They were a budget version of the Retina series, without rangefinders.
Manufactured from 1954 to 1958, Kodak Retinette F is the French market version of the type 022 model. The German manufactured body was apparently fitted with a Kodak Anastigmat Angenieux 45mm f/3.5 and a Kodak shutter in France.
KODAK RETINETTE IA
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1966
Kodak Retinette IA type 044 late model 1966.
Specifications:
Kodak Retinette IA type 044 late model 1966.
Specifications:
- Lens: Schneider-Kreuznach Reomar 45mm f2.8
- Shutter: Prontor 250S (1/30-1/250 +B), then later Prontor 300S with speeds up to 1/300
- Retinette IA is engraved in uppercases.
- Serial no: on the hot-shoe.
- Focusing: front element focusing, gues the distance, also there are symbols for portrait, group and landscape on distance scale, w/DOF scale.