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| − | The [[Kodak AG| Kodak]] Retina I is a vertical spring folder for [[35mm|135 format]]. | + | The '''[[Kodak AG|Kodak]] Retina I''' is a vertical spring folder for [[35mm|135 format]]. |
The original Kodak Retina (type 117) is a historically significant camera, because [[Kodak]] introduced the now ubiquitous daylight-loading 135 cartridge for this camera. (Earlier 35mm cameras required manually spooling bulk 35mm cine film into proprietary cassettes.) The design of the Retina borrowed significantly from the 127-film [[Vollenda]] which had been manufactured by the [[Nagel|August Nagel Camera Works]] until its purchase and re-christening as [[Kodak AG]]. | The original Kodak Retina (type 117) is a historically significant camera, because [[Kodak]] introduced the now ubiquitous daylight-loading 135 cartridge for this camera. (Earlier 35mm cameras required manually spooling bulk 35mm cine film into proprietary cassettes.) The design of the Retina borrowed significantly from the 127-film [[Vollenda]] which had been manufactured by the [[Nagel|August Nagel Camera Works]] until its purchase and re-christening as [[Kodak AG]]. | ||
Revision as of 02:45, 3 November 2013
The Kodak Retina I is a vertical spring folder for 135 format.
The original Kodak Retina (type 117) is a historically significant camera, because Kodak introduced the now ubiquitous daylight-loading 135 cartridge for this camera. (Earlier 35mm cameras required manually spooling bulk 35mm cine film into proprietary cassettes.) The design of the Retina borrowed significantly from the 127-film Vollenda which had been manufactured by the August Nagel Camera Works until its purchase and re-christening as Kodak AG.
The Retina I models are distinguished from the Retina II and III series by being scale-focused, rather than using a rangefinder.
The eventual triumph of the 135 format owed much to the acceptance of the Retina as a compact, precision 35mm camera, as well as to the success of lower-priced alternatives such as those manufactured by Argus.
The following is a list of Retina I cameras produced from 1934 to 1940/1941? and 1945 to 1950.
- Type 117 Retina - 1934 to 1935
- Type 118 Retina - 1935 to 1936
- Type 119 Retina I - 1936 to 1938
- Type 126 Retina I - 1936 to 1937
- Type 141 Retina I - 1937 to 1939
- Type 143 Retina I - 1938 to 1939
- Type 148 Retina I - 1939 to 1940
- Type 149 Retina I - 1939 to 1940
- Type 167 Retina I - 1940 - ? 1941
- Kodak AG stopped camera production in the summer of 1941. Plant was requisitioned by German government to make time-fuses.
- First camera parts for post-war production manufactured in July 1945.
- Type 010 Retina I - November 1945 to June 1949
- Type 013 Retina I - August 1949 to December 1950
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Notes
- Kodak Retina Type 117 designed by Dr. August Nagel who was the founder of the August Nagel Camera Works in 1928, later he sold his firm to Eastman Kodak in 1932, and its name changed as Kodak AG.
- Kodak Retina I no.126 produced concurrently with the Retina I no.119, (Modell I schwarz), but being distinctive by it's chrome trim, Modell I verchromt, and was offered with the Kodak Ektar lens. But can be found with various lens and shutter combinations.
- Between 1936-1940, each model Retina I was available in two variants, black = Modell I schwarz and chrome = Modell I verchromt. Hence the Types 119 and 126 are very similar, as the 141 and 143, and the 148 and 149. The reader can see the similarity of 119 and 126 in the pictures above.
