Discontinued
Kfilm camera
Retina II (Type 014)
Type 014
Format
135
Is Film
Yes
Shutter
Compur-Rapid (flash synchronised)
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
medium
Produced 1949–1950 · medium confidencehttps://retinarescue.com/retina2type014.htmlKodak AG Stuttgart. Type 014. See gear_items.kodak-retina-ii-type-014 spec_notes for the sourcing and any conflict.
Category: Film Camera
Format
135
Shutter
Compur-Rapid (flash synchronised)
Metering
none
Spec Notes
Roughly 180,000 units in a two-year run - the highest-volume Retina in the prewar-to-1950 block. Four sources agree on 1949-1950. Lens options sourced: Schneider Retina-Xenon 50mm f/2 (coated), Rodenstock Retina-Heligon 50mm f/2 (coated). No Ektar option is sourced for this Type. Shutter Compur-Rapid 1-1/500 + B, with a PC flash sync socket added. Two hardware dimensions separate it from the Type 011: the depth-of-field scale moved from the camera base to the shutter, and the film-type reminder dial added under the rewind knob. Weight and dimensions NOT SOURCED. 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
Yes
Alternate Names
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Introduced
1949
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