My Kodak Retinette 1b

[David Mitchell]

Hi all,

Its been a while since I aquired another camera lol but I have just got a nice Kodak Retinette 1b which looks awesome I have started to get a few more 35mm cameras due to the more economic costs of the 35mm vs the MF 120 roll film - ie 36 photos vs 8, although technically at a lower resolution but im not going to blow them up to a poster!

It comes in a case to protect the lens (much like the Sputnik camera)

It looks pretty smart

Its got a Rodenstock lens and apparently the image quality is really sharp on the Retinettes which is good

The focus ring is a bit different, it basically clicks into 3 different settings ie close, medium or far as its not an SLR you have to guess the distance to get everything in focus. Kodak have seem to have kinda got around this issue with 3 clicks so you can select a close enough setting for things to be in focus quickly which I found interesting.

Here is the top where you select what film you have and the exposure counter

And here is the odd thing about the camera, the film advance is on the base of the camera rather than on the top like everything else I own

I will hopefully go out and shoot with this soon, now that I have some 35mm film, will look forward to seeing the quality of the images.

 

[Beth Carter]

cool stuff. especially like the old leather case.

i've got my grandfather's old retinnette, purchased in japan while stationed in japan during the korean war. but i think it's a 16..

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Ooooo, I think I may have one of these somewhere in a box....

Lovely retro looking camera David - you going to put a film through it then?

 

[David Mitchell]

Ooooo, I think I may have one of these somewhere in a box....

Lovely retro looking camera David - you going to put a film through it then?

I will do, check out some of my other threads for some of the other cameras I have lol I currently have my Fujica ST605N loaded at the moment, should be shooting it today, will be my first shots on my first SLR (always thought they were uber expensive) I will be probably using this camera next on the list to see what the image clarity is like on it, its quite compact, I guess its a scaled down version of the Retina, just with less folding action

 

[Brian Moore]

Does the meter work?

 

[David Mitchell]

Does the meter work?

It sure does, it seems to have what can only discribed as a hump pop up in the middle of the meter when the needle drops to the middle so I am guessing I need to get it to show the 'hump' to get the correct exposure?