The Kodak Days! - The Retinette IB (045).

The Kodak Retinette IB (Type 045) was built in a number from 258,000 pieces from 1963-66 in W.-Germany. The price was in W.-Germany 218 DM. The lens is a Rodenstock Reomar 2.8/45mm and the shutter is a Prontor 500LK.
I used a since 11/2000 expired Kodak Farbwelt 200 with the Retinette.

The Kodak Days! - The Retinette (022).

The Kodak Retinette (Type 022) was built in a number from 238,000 pieces from 1954-58 in W.-Germany. The price was in W.-Germany 118 DM. The lens is a Schneider Kreuznach Reomar 3.5/45mm and the shutter is a Compur-Rapid. See more pictures of the Retinette here!
I used a since 05/2012 expired Kodak Ultramax 400, which I've bought in Brazil, with the Retinette.

The Kodak Days! - The Retina Ia (015).

The Kodak Retina Ia (Type 015) was built in a number from 137,000 pieces from 1951-54 in W.-Germany. The price was in W.-Germany 218 DM. The lens is a Schneider Kreuznach Xenar 2.8/50mm and the shutter is a Synchro-Compur. See more pictures of the Retina here!
I used a since 12/2015 expired Kodak Color+ 200, which I've bought in Brazil, with the Retina.

The Kodak Days! - The cameras.

 

In the last days of summer I used the three old German Kodak cameras from my girlfriend. The German Kodak cameras are wonderful and have got a high quality. Of course, I just used Kodak films with the cameras.
The cameras are:

The Kodak Retina Ia (Type 015) was built in a number from 137,000 pieces from 1951-54 in W.-Germany. The price was in W.-Germany 218 DM. The lens is a Schneider Kreuznach Xenar 2.8/50mm and the shutter is a Synchro-Compur. See more pictures of the Retina here!
I used a since 12/2015 expired Kodak Color+ 200, which I've bought in Brazil, with the Retina.

The Kodak Retinette (Type 022) was built in a number from 238,000 pieces from 1954-58 in W.-Germany. The price was in W.-Germany 118 DM. The lens is a Schneider Kreuznach Reomar 3.5/45mm and the shutter is a Compur-Rapid. See more pictures of the Retinette here!
I used a since 05/2012 expired Kodak Ultramax 400, which I've bought in Brazil, with the Retinette.

The Kodak Retinette IB (Type 045) was built in a number from 258,000 pieces from 1963-66 in W.-Germany. The price was in W.-Germany 218 DM. The lens is a Rodenstock Reomar 2.8/45mm and the shutter is a Prontor 500LK.
I used a since 11/2000 expired Kodak Farbwelt 200 with the Retinette.

The infos about the cameras are from the book "Zauber der Kamera - Beispiele aus dem Kodak-Nagel-Werk" by Helmut Nagel, from the year 1977,  published by Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt GmbH, Stuttgart.

The Kodak Days! - The old pictures.

The Retina IIc box and a Retina Ia

Some months ago I bought at the Mimapi in Cologne an original Kodak Retina IIc (Typ 029, 1957–1958) box with many original Kodak filters and the sales receipt of the Retina inside it. The person bought the camera in 1957 for 318 DM. 

But there was also a small plastic can from Schmitt & Schmitt with three 35mm black&white Agfa Isopan F filmstrips inside it. One strip was a negative strip and the other two strips were contact strips. 

I think the negative strip was shot first, because the people were a little bit younger there. They posed in front of the Kölner Dom and the city of Cologne. You can recognize the great differences in comparison to today. The two contact strips are from 1960/61 and 1963, which was recorded on the back of the films. There they already had a little boy.