The Kodak Retina line contains some of my favorite cameras, due in no small part to the second camera in my collection, my great-grandmother’s Type 126. I find Retinas to have some of the best hand-feel of any pocketable cameras.
As with all folding Retinas I have had the pleasure of using, the IIc has excellent build quality, having been produced by Kodak-owned Nagel Camerawerke in Stuttgart, Germany.
This particular IIc, as some of you will no doubt notice, is not entirely correct. It came with the f2 Xenon lens, likely from a IIIc. It will be interesting to see what results from this combination.
| Make | Kodak |
|---|---|
| Model | Retina IIc (type 020) |
| Year | 1954-1957 |
| Format | 35mm |
| Shutter | Synchro-Compur |
| Speed | B,1,2,4,8,15,30,60,125,250,500 |
| Lens | Schneider-Kreuznach Retina-Xenon |
| f2.0 50mm (should be f2.8) | |
| Focus | 2.5 ft to ∞ |
| Aperture | f2.8 to 22 |
| Light Meter | No |
| Rangefinder | Yes |
Didn’t test it yet? Curious to see how it works… 😉
Not yet, I have a rather large backlog of cameras to get through.