Discontinued
Kfilm camera
Retina Ib (Type 018)
Type 018
Format
135
Is Film
Yes
Shutter
Synchro-Compur MXV
Metering
none
Research
Chris Sherlock, retinarescue.com (per-Type pages and the post-WW2 serial table); Science Museum Group / Kodak Museum object records; camerapedia; Wikipedia (article text, NOT infoboxes - see spec Notes); camera-wiki production table; Focal Press guides. The Kodak instruction manuals at butkus.org and cameramanuals.org are untexted image scans and could not be read this session.
Confidence
high
Produced 1954–1957https://retinarescue.com/retina1btype018.htmlKodak AG Stuttgart. Type 018. See gear_items.kodak-retina-ib-type-018 spec_notes for the sourcing and any conflict.
Category: Film Camera
Format
135
Shutter
Synchro-Compur MXV
Metering
none
Spec Notes
Roughly 161,000 units. Lower-case b. A single-fitment camera, unusually for this line: Schneider-Kreuznach Retina-Xenar 50mm f/2.8, four elements, coated, non-interchangeable, with the front element on a bayonet for accessories. No Rodenstock and no Ektar option is sourced - recorded as NOT SOURCED rather than as 'none offered'. Shutter Synchro-Compur MXV 1-1/500 + B, the same unit as the Retina IIc and IIIc. Reverse-telescopic finder with a parallax-correction frame; scale focus from 3 ft / 0.9 m. Kodak list number 29113. FOUR hardware dimensions separate it from the Retina Ia: single lens fitment vs a choice of four, film advance moved from the top to the bottom, a new body shell, and the new finder. Weight reported as 590 g and 584 g by two sources - omitted rather than picked. Dimensions NOT SOURCED. Two distinct Kodak manuals exist, 'small finder' and 'large finder', implying an in-Type finder change no text describes. DATING: Kodak AG published no serial-to-year table, and the collector lists that exist map serial to MODEL with OVERLAPPING ranges - Retina Ia (015) and IIa (016) share two bands character-for-character, as do Retina I (013) and II (014), and a 50001-ish low block recurs across Types 018, 019/2, 028 and 029. A serial-only lookup is not merely imprecise, it is actively wrong. Where the fitted lens is Schneider-built, the LENS is datable from Schneider's own 63 published serial bands, already loaded; Rodenstock publishes none.
Rangefinder
No
Alternate Names
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Introduced
1954
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