Kodak Retina Automatic III
I have a confession to make. I have worked for Kodak Ltd in the UK since 1979. Therefore I need to declare my interest when I review any Kodak products. The purchase of this camera was driven by my interest in Kodak's history. The camera was manufactured in Stuttgart, Germany at about the same time that I was born. Therefore double interest. I picked this fully working example up on Ebay for £25. The Kodak Retina range of 35mm cameras are well known in photography. They were produced between the mid-thirties right up until the end of the sixties. There is plenty of information on the whole series on the internet and they are relatively easy to pick up at a reasonable price. The model that I am looking at here is a Kodak Retina Automatic III. The camera comes in a good looking hard leather case with silver chrome trim and red velvet and plastic lining. The top of the case cannot be separated from base but the whole case can be removed from the camera using the