Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:10 PM 1998-12-11 EST, Nigel B Watson wrote: >Kodak's Ektra and Retina are the only ones which come immediately to >mind, they are from the 1940's, and I do not know how much of those >cameras were truly American, especially the lenses. The Ektra used completely American-made lenses. The early Retinas until 1949 or so used a mixture of Zeiss, Schneider, and made-in-America Kodak lenses but afterwards used exclusively German Schneider or Rodenstock lenses. The Ektra bodies were completely US made, the Retina cameras were completely German-built, at the former Nagel Kamerawerk in Stuttgart. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!