Kodak AG
Kodak AG is the German branch of the Kodak company. It originated at the end of the 19th century as German branch of Kodak in Berlin, named Eastman Kodak GmbH
Later, in the 20th century, the German Kodak branch became listed at the German stock market, and it bought the independent camera maker Nagel, and its founder Dr. August Nagel became general director of the company when it was bought by Eastman Kodak Company on December 1, 1931. Kodak A.G. Dr. Nagel Werk developed its own line of products including the Kodak Retina Camera. The first Retina camera ( Typ 117 ) was introduced in the summer of 1934 along with a new 35mm film Daylight Loading Cartridge (DLC). Dr. August Nagel held the German patent for this new 35mm DLC. This 35mm Daylight Loading Cartridge was designed for the Kodak Retina camera and was also designed to retrofit into existing Leica and Contax cameras. Nagel's son Helmut Nagel led the company after the war.
Kodak made in Germany image by Francisco Javier Cornejos C. (Image rights) |
Contents
35mm
Folding
Retina I |
- Viewfinder cameras (scale focusing):
- Kodak Retina I (117, 118, 119, 126, 141, 143, 148, 149, 010, 013)
- Kodak Retina Ia (015)
- Kodak Retina Ib (018)
- Retina IB (019)
- Kodak Retinette (Types 147, 012, 017, 160)
- Coupled rangefinder cameras:
- Kodak Retina II (122, 142, 011, 014)
- Kodak Retina IIa (150,016)
- Kodak Retina IIc (020)
- Kodak Retina IIIc (021)
- Retina IIC (029)
- Retina IIIC (028)
Rigid-bodied
- Kodak Retina I BS (040)
- Kodak Retina IF (046)
- Kodak Retina IIS (024)
- Kodak Retina IIF (047)
- Kodak Retina IIIS (027)
- Kodak Retina Automatic I II III (038, 032, 039)
- Kodak Retina S1, S2(060, 061)
- Kodak Retinette (Type 022 - 1954)
- Kodak Retinette I (Type 030 - 1958)
- Kodak Retinette IA (Types 035 - 1959, 042 - 1960, 044 - 1963)
- Kodak Retinette Ib (Type 037 - 1959)
- Kodak Retinette IB (Type 045 - 1963)
- Kodak Retinette II (Type 026 - 1958)
- Kodak Retinette IIA (Type 036 - 1959)
- Kodak Retinette IIB (Type 031 - 1958)
SLR
126 film
Instamatic 500 |
Viewfinder
See the Instamatic page for a comprehensive list.
SLR
110 film
- Mini-Instamatic S 30
- Mini-Instamatic S 40
- Pocket Ektra 200 Camera
- Tele-Ektralite 600 Camera
- Pocket Instamatic 300 Camera
- Pocket Instamatic 500 Camera electronic
127 film
folding
rigid
- Pupille
- Ranca
120 & 620 film
folding
616 film
folding
plate
folding
Literature
- COE, Brian: Kodak Cameras: The First Hundred Years, Hove Books, 2nd ed., 2003. ISBN 1874707375.
- NAGEL, Helmut: Zauber der Kamera: Beispiele aus dem Kodak-Nagel-Werk, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1977. ISBN 3421025169.
- KEMMLER, Karl Otto: Nagel und Kodak Kameras, Gisela Kemmler, 1983.
- GUBAS, Larry: Further Thoughts on August Nagel, available at Zeiss Historica, vol. 29, Fall 2007, pages 21-22. ISSN 1553-5371.
- GUBAS, Larry: Zeiss Ikon and Dr. August Nagel (History), available at Zeiss Historica, vol. 6, Spring 1984, page 4. ISSN 1553-5371.
- WALLAGE, Peter: August Nagel and the Retina, available at Zeiss Historica, vol. 27, Fall 2005, pages 10-15. ISSN 1553-5371.
Links
Photo industry in Stuttgart |
Contessa | Contessa-Nettel | Drexler & Nagel | Ebner | Hauff | Kenngott | Kodak AG | G. A. Krauss | Nagel | Zeiss Ikon |
- Historical Society for Retina Cameras
- Retina Rescue - Chris's Camera Pages, by Chris Sherlock
- Kodak Classics by Mischa Koning ~ Contains, besides information about more than 500 Kodak cameras, online copies of the "Retina Guide", the "Retina Reflex Guide" and the "Retinette Guide" by Focus Press.
- Kodak Retina documentation (German), at Schneider Kreuznach
- Cameras and User manuals at www.collection-appareils.fr