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Retina Reflex (Type 025)

OBJECT TYPE: Camera
MANUFACTURER: Kodak AG
DISTRIBUTOR: Eastman Kodak Company
NATIONALITY: German
PLACE MANUFACTURED: Germany, Stuttgart
INTRODUCTION DATE: 1956
PRODUCTION DATES: 1956-1958
FILM TYPE: 35mm rollfilm
IMAGE SIZE: 24 x 36 mm.
APPROXIMATE MANUFACTURED QUANTITY: 65,000
FUNCTIONAL TYPE: 35mm SLR
STANDARD LENSES/SHUTTERS:
  50mm f/2.0 Schneider Xenon C in Synchro-Compur shutter
  50mm f/2.0 Rodenstock Heligon C in Synchro-Compur shutter
  note: both lenses have interchangeable front componets
INTEGRATED SHUTTER: Yes

NOTES:
  "Single lens reflex, focusing by ground glass and split-image
  rangefinder; photoelectric exposure meter; EV scale, shutter and
  aperature coupling; preset diaphragm; interchangeable front lens
  componets;
  Retina Curtar C or Heligon C f/4.0 or f/5.6 35mm.
  Retina Longar Xenon C or Heligon C f/4.0, 80mm." (Coe, 1988).

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: K762.00014
VIDEODISC 1, FRAME NUMBER: 117

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Coe, Brian. --Kodak Cameras: The First Hundred Years.-- Hove, East Sussex: Hove Foto Books, 1988. pp 215.//

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Retina Reflex (Type 025)

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