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Now I have the two supplementary lenses for the Makina IIs:

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vor 2 Stunden schrieb thomas_schertel:

Now I have the two supplementary lenses for the Makina IIs:

yours sincerely
Thomas

Fine setup, later Plaubel offered a back with focal-plane shutter to shoot 1/1000 sec and a back to use 35 mm film so you can still look around for these items

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3 Nagel/Kodak Vollendas. The middle one has a Leitz Elmar and the left and right hand ones have Schneider Radionar lenses. Dr Nagel sold his business to Kodak and hence the camera on the right has 'Kodak' on its Compur shutter.

 

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Nagel then developed the Retina camera with Kodak, along with the reusable 35mm cassettes, which we still use today. These two cameras with Schneider Xenar Lenses have their Compur shutters marked 'Kodak', of course, but they have depth of field scales which are variants of those on the later Vollendas and the Nagel Pupille.

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My inherited Verascope. The picture is not a selfie made by the camera.😉

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24 minutes ago, jankap said:

My inherited Verascope. The picture is not a selfie made by the camera.😉

My Verascope dates from about 40 years earlier (1914-15). 

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vor 7 Stunden schrieb wlaidlaw:

William, do you know what Herr Nagel did after Kodak? Did he leave Germany? 

Wilson

the German wikipedia claims

"August Nagel verstarb 1943 im Alter von 61 Jahren. Das Nagel-Werk, zu dieser Zeit wieder auf Rüstungsproduktion umgestellt, wurde 1944 bei britischen Luftangriffen beschädigt. Nach dem Krieg wurde das Werk in Stuttgart-Wangen Hauptsitz von Kodak Deutschland. Sein Sohn Helmut Nagel war von 1953 bis 1979 Vorstandsvorsitzender der Kodak-Werke in der BRD"

so he died early and his son followed some time later working for Kodak

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10 hours ago, wlaidlaw said:

My Verascope dates from about 40 years earlier (1914-15). 

Wilson

My Verascope is the F40 from 1938, lenses still not coated. It is a brick, but not too heavy. My father used it very much, he tried to project the slides in stereo too. His brother constructed a stereo projector for him. This project (of 1950-60) was not successful, because it was too time-consuming to align the slides for every projected picture, as the slides were single mounted. Also the pola-filters consumed much light, so the projection was very dark.

I used the camera too. The slides put into a handheld viewer, deliver a nice stereo experience. With a digital camera - taking 2 pictures - is a much easier procedure. I use now the Polaroid glassless media player. It offers the MPO format with 1280 x 768 pixels.

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11 hours ago, wlaidlaw said:

William, do you know what Herr Nagel did after Kodak? Did he leave Germany? 

Wilson

He died in 1943 during the war. So, he never got to see the post war Retinas. He was a major figure with the Zeiss Ikon and Kodak deals and, of course, the 35mm cassette. The cameras with his own name are lovely, particularly the Pupille. He should be better remembered. I intend to work his contribution into my talk about the Compur type shutters for PCCGB on 30th January. There are other important 'unknown figures' like Deckel and Bruns without whom a lot of developments would not have been possible. They belong on the same podium as Barnack.

William 

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5 hours ago, romanus53 said:

the German wikipedia claims

"August Nagel verstarb 1943 im Alter von 61 Jahren. Das Nagel-Werk, zu dieser Zeit wieder auf Rüstungsproduktion umgestellt, wurde 1944 bei britischen Luftangriffen beschädigt. Nach dem Krieg wurde das Werk in Stuttgart-Wangen Hauptsitz von Kodak Deutschland. Sein Sohn Helmut Nagel war von 1953 bis 1979 Vorstandsvorsitzender der Kodak-Werke in der BRD"

so he died early and his son followed some time later working for Kodak

I have some books on their way to me from Germany about Deckel, the Retina and the German industry in the 1920s and 30s, but they are all, naturally enough, in German. This is not a situation that has been fully written up in English.

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Tower of Babel would be one explanation. In my youth I was forced at French, German and English, and Dutch of course. That served me well for a long time. Later on I tried Russian, Arabic and Japanese. But one has to live in such an environment, to learn it well.

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William,

You do not mention the books you are to receive from Germany. One of the books on my shelf that I enjoy reading every now and again is the book "Zauber der Kamera - Beispiele aus dem Kodak-Nagel Werk" written by Helmut Nagel.  Over and above a complete list of the cameras of the Nagel factory, the first chapter is a fairly detailed story of Dr August Nagel's life. It was published in 1977 by Deutsche-Verlags Anstalt. The ISBN is 3-421-02516-9.

Kind regards, Martin

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To get back to my earlier remark about the Kodak Retina 1a, here it is.

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On 1/12/2022 at 1:57 PM, Martin K said:

William,

You do not mention the books you are to receive from Germany. One of the books on my shelf that I enjoy reading every now and again is the book "Zauber der Kamera - Beispiele aus dem Kodak-Nagel Werk" written by Helmut Nagel.  Over and above a complete list of the cameras of the Nagel factory, the first chapter is a fairly detailed story of Dr August Nagel's life. It was published in 1977 by Deutsche-Verlags Anstalt. The ISBN is 3-421-02516-9.

Kind regards, Martin

Thanks for that. The ones I ordered and received were Hartmut Thiele’s books on the Deckel Compur and the Kodak Retina. The latter starts with a painting of Dr Nagel and contains a lot of information about him and his involvement with Kodak. I also ordered Willi Kerkmann’s book on German Cameras from 1900 to 1945, but what I received was a signed copy of his book on cameras from 1945 to 1986. I am keeping that, but I have asked the booksellers to check if they have the first volume. I actually have my slides done for the talk now and they include Contessas, Nagels and Retinas, all ‘produced’ by Dr August Nagel, as well as other cameras. Deckel, Gauthier, Leitz and Zeiss will, of course, feature in my talk for PCCGB. 

William

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5 minutes ago, wlaidlaw said:

William, 

Have you got the new website address for the PCCGB? The address I was given: https://www.pccgb.net/ gives a fake/corrupted website warning. 

Wilson

The warning says the certificate is valid for the site pccgb.net but not www.pccgb.net. Having given me adequate warning, my browser (firefox) allows me to visit the site anyway. It's not that big a deal. If in doubt, use the private mode of your browser.

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1 hour ago, wlaidlaw said:

William, 

Have you got the new website address for the PCCGB? The address I was given: https://www.pccgb.net/ gives a fake/corrupted website warning. 

Wilson

Hopefully, this link should work for you https://pccgb.net . That one works and is not corrupted. PCCGB is a great organisation and I have been enjoying their Sunday morning Zooms for about 6 months now and I have made a few presentations, a full length one on Irish Photography since 1839 and shorter ones on Leica items and Grubb lenses. My presentation on 30th January will be full length and will feature the people and products mentioned above. The level of knowledge and experience in the PCCGB is astonishing. One old chap recently showed us a Leica which he had bought in 1948!  We also have people like John Wade who writes on vintage cameras for the Amateur Photographer and Tim Goldsmith of Chiswick Auctions. Tim is currently doing up a new register of Reid cameras.

If you wish I can PM or email you the contact details of the people who organise the PCCGB Zooms.

William 

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