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The Retina 35mm cameras belonged to an extensive model series of very high German precision quality that were built by Kodak AG Germany over a long production period - from 1934 to 1964. The Retina model series is roughly split into pre- and post-war models. This Retina Ia is one of the first generation of post-war compact fold-out 35mm cameras that were first fitted with a quick-advance lever on the top cover. They were produced in an edition of 137,000 copies from 1951 to 1954. The Retina Ia is a simple viewfinder camera, without a distance meter and / or light meter on board. If you wanted to take pictures with it, then the distance had to be estimated or use had to be made of an attachable distance meter and the exposure determined via the F-16 rule, or a separate manual exposure meter had to be used. The lens on this Retina Ia is a Schneider Kreuznach Xenar 1: 3.5 / 50 mm, which was rated by insiders as a razor-sharp lens. The shutter is a Synchro Compur with expiration times from 1 to 1/500 sec. + B.
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