Cameras made in Germany (West or East)
This is a Certo Dollina II rangefinder camera made in Dresden, Germany by Certo Camera Werk. The Dollina II was first introduced in 1936, only a year after the Dollina I which did not have a rangefinder, making the Dollina series the second cameras ever made designed to use Kodak’s new…
What is it? This is a Voigtländer Rollfilm folding camera that was made between the years of 1927 – 1931. The Rollfilm was one of Voigtländer’s first attempts at a camera that used roll film. I guess they didn’t think it was necessary to give it a unique sounding name, and just…
This is a Wirgin Presto folding camera made by Wirgin Kamerawerk out of Wiesbaden, Germany in the mid 1930s. Narrowing down the exact year this camera was built is difficult due to very little information being available. The Presto was the upscale version of the nearly identical Wirgin Auta. All…
What is it? This is a Zeiss-Ikon Nettar 515 which is a medium format folding camera which takes sixteen 6cm x 4.5cm images on 120 roll film. This was the third model in the long-lived Nettar line and first went on sale in 1937. The Nettar line of cameras shared…
This is a Voigtländer Vito II 35mm folding camera which was in production from 1949 – 1954. The Vito II was the successor to the earlier Vito model which was introduced in the late 30s as Voigtländer’s first 35mm camera. The first Vito did not use standard 135 format 35mm film, but…
This is a Kodak Retina 35mm folding camera made by Kodak AG of West Germany. This particular model is a Nr. 119 Retina which means it was made between the years of 1936 and 1938. It was the third Retina model after the original Nr. 117 and Nr. 118 models.…
This is an Edixa Reflex-C 35mm Single Lens Reflex camera made in West Germany by the Wirgin camera company. Wirgin had a line of 35mm rangefinder cameras also known as the Edixa, but this line of Edixa SLRs was in production under many different submodels from 1954 to around 1971. The…
What is it? This is an AGFA Billy-Clack No. 74 folding camera built in Germany from 1934 – 1940. It makes eight 6cm x 9cm exposures on a roll of AGFA B2 or 120 roll film. There was also a Billy-Clack No. 51 that took 6cm x 4.5cm exposures. The…
What is it? This is a Kodak Retina IIc rangefinder camera built by Kodak AG, the German subsidiary of the Eastman Kodak company. The IIc was the successor to the Retina IIa and while on the surface is a very similar model, there are many cosmetic and functional improvements that…
What is it? This is a Super Sport Dolly medium format camera made by Certo Camera Werk out of Dresden, Germany. Certo was a maker of medium to high end folding cameras who saw it’s greatest success prior to World War II. They had a long line of medium format…
What is it? This is a Leidolf Lordomat interchangeable lens 35mm rangefinder camera made by the Leidolf company out of Wetzlar, Germany around 1953. Wetzlar was home to Leitz who made the famous Leica camera. Leidolf originally started as a subcontractor of Leitz making microscopes and binoculars. Their foray into…
What is it? The AGFA Karat was a series of strut folding compact cameras made from the mid 1930s through the mid 50s. The earlier models used a unique type of Rapid film made by AGFA for this camera. It differed from Kodak’s 135 format 35mm in that the cassettes…
