Nagel
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| Kodak-Nagel Vollenda No. 48 for 127 film image by Rick Soloway (Image rights) |
| Photo industry in Stuttgart |
| Contessa | Contessa-Nettel | Drexler & Nagel | Ebner | Hauff | Kenngott | Kodak AG | G. A. Krauss | Nagel | Zeiss Ikon |
In 1928 Dr. August Nagel, founder of Contessa and co-founder of of Zeiss Ikon, split off to start his own camera factory in his hometown Stuttgart. It became famous for its small format camera Nagel-Pupille. In 1931 the company became Kodak's German branch Kodak AG. After that, the model range continued with the Kodak name.
In the mid-1930s, Dr. Nagel devised a 35mm film cassette that would fit the successful Leica and Contax rangefinder cameras; Nagel also shrank its earlier Vollenda camera to fit this smaller format—creating the Retina). Kodak in the US promoted this new film packaging as 135 format, and it soon became the 35mm standard that is universal today.
116 film
- Vollenda 80
127 film
Folding
- Vollenda 48
- Vollenda 50
- Vollenda 52
Rigid
120 film
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| Advertisement in Asahi Camera February 1930, showing the Nagel No.714. (Image rights) |
129 film
- Vollenda 60
- Vollenda 68
Film plates
- Anca 14
- Recomar 18
- Recomar 33
Links
- Further Thoughts on August Nagel, by Larry Gubas, at Zeiss Historica, vol. 29, Fall 2007, pages 21-22.
- August Nagel and the Retina, by Peter Wallage, at Zeiss Historica, vol. 27, Fall 2005, pages 10-15.
- Zeiss Ikon and Dr. August Nagel (History), by Larry Gubas, at Zeiss Historica, vol. 6, Spring 1984, page 4.
- August Nagel-Werke at Brian Wallen's Cameras of Kodak's Golden Age
- Historical Society for Retina Cameras
- Retina Rescue - Chris's Camera Pages, by Chris Sherlock
- Original Retina by Sylvain Halgand
- Nagel page at Collection G. Even's site
