Discontinued
Kfilm camera
Vollenda 48
48
Format
127
Is Film
Yes
Shutter
Pronto-S, Compur or Compur-Rapid
Metering
none
Research
Science Museum Group / Kodak Museum object records (Bradford collection); Chris Sherlock, retinarescue.com (Retina camera list and serial tables); cjs-classic-cameras.co.uk; collection-appareils.fr; camerapedia; cameracollector.net; mikeeckman.com. NO Kodak printed document was read for the prewar models - the highest tier reached is museum cataloguing, and confidence is set accordingly.
Confidence
low
Category: Film Camera
Format
127
Shutter
Pronto-S, Compur or Compur-Rapid
Metering
none
Spec Notes
3x4 cm on 127, and the only HORIZONTAL-folding camera in the Vollenda line - the rest of the family's numbers (60, 68, 70, 72, 80) are format codes on vertical folders. A Nagel design carried into the Kodak era; post-merger examples are Kodak-badged and otherwise unchanged. Lens options sourced: Schneider Radionar 5cm f/4.5 and f/3.5, Leitz Elmar 50mm f/3.5, Zeiss Tessar 5cm f/2.8. NO PRODUCTION RANGE ROW IS WRITTEN: the sourced span, 1929-1937, begins two years before Kodak acquired Nagel, so a Kodak-era start year would be a guess. The bracket is recorded here as prose instead. THE REST OF THE VOLLENDA FAMILY IS DEFERRED, NOT FORGOTTEN: the 80 (1930-31) is entirely pre-acquisition, on the same reasoning that excludes the Ranca; the 68 is dated only 'circa 1932'; the 60, 70, 72 and 52 have formats and nothing else. The one source for the /0 /1 /2 finish suffixes says in its own words that it is not clear whether they are factory designations.
Rangefinder
No
Alternate Names
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