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mysteriouscam · 3 years ago
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Staunton, VA Kodak (Nagel) Vollenda 127 Ilford HP5 On Flickr © Eben Ostby July 23, 2021 at 07:52AM. All rights reserved
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simonhawketts · 7 years ago
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This is a pictorial post about the Nagel Vollenda folding camera which was made by Dr. August Nagel in, probably, the 1930s.
Nagel Vollenda camera front view
Nagel Vollenda compur shutter and lens
Nagel Vollenda side view showing film winder
Nagel Vollenda side view
Nagel Vollenda frame finder
Nagel Vollenda waist level finder
Nagel Vollenda shutter and front lens element
Nagel Vollenda back film door open
Nagel Vollenda aperture blades
Nagel Vollenda front lens door
Nagel Vollenda medium format folding camera
Nagel Vollenda camera – the front door latch
My Nagel Vollenda camera
I picked this camera up from eBay uk for a total of £15 including postage.
I initially became interested in it simply because it is a folding camera and I wanted to increase the ‘folders’ section of my collection. However, once I looked at the pictures of it on the sellers ad, one factor made the camera much more appealing – in the picture of the back of the camera I could see the number 5 in the small red window showing there was a film still fitted.
The seller described the camera as having a couple of problems, namely the lens door catch is broken and the leather hand strap is held together with a piece of blue string, but I thought it likely that those issues could be repaired so I placed a bid in the last few seconds and picked it up for the £15 I said above.
When it turned up a couple of days later I found it is in reasonable condition considering its age (which is probably about 80 or more years old), but that the seller was accurate when he said the front door will not latch shut. There is also some green corrosion on the front support, some of the case material is peeling off and the shutter release has lost it’s terminal.
The good news however is that the fitted compur shutter is working well and although there is some dust in the lens there doesn’t appear to be any fungus. Also the bellows, which are a common failure point on cameras this old, are flexible and light tight.
The first thing I did with the camera, before I got too carried away with trying it out and certainly before I opened the back, was wind on and remove the roll of Kodacolour X film which was still inside. I’ll develop that using Stand Development and hopefully find at least a few old pictures on it!
Nagel Vollenda Description
I did a little research on the Nagel company because Nagel is not a common make of camera in the UK.
The founder of the company which manufactured this camera was Dr August Nagel, who was also one of the founding members of the Zeiss Ikon company which he left to form his own company in 1928. That new company was successful in building several cameras, including the Vollenda, and after being taken over by Kodak in 1932, became the manufacturer of several Kodak cameras including the Retina series.
When I first bought this camera I didn’t actually know the model was Vollenda – I just knew it was a Nagel because that is written on the front of the lens. It took a few internet image searches to find the same model and discover the model was Vollenda, although once I’d discovered that, I found the name is actually inscribed in the covering on the front by the handle.
As with most medium format folding cameras the design is very simple, being really just a shutter & lens assembly held the right distance from the film by the collapsible bellows. In the case of the Nagel Vollenda, the shutter is a Compur 8 speed unit and the lens is a Schneider-Kreuznach 105mm f/4.5. That lens and shutter combination suggests to me that this camera is probably capable of some quite nice results, especially since the negative size produced is 6 x 9 cm which is quite big.
To use the camera the front lens assembly needs to be extended by opening the front cover and pulling the lens out until two locks click into place when the lens is correctly positioned. After the picture is taken, there are two release levers on the back of the mechanism which allow the lens to be pushed back into place. I always think the folding camera is a remarkably simple and effective design, allowing a camera which takes such big negatives to take up so little space.
For focusing the camera has a rotating front lens element with a scale from infinity down to a little under 1 ft although there is no focusing assistance in the form of a rangefinder. The distance had to be measured or estimated and manually applied, or, more likely, the aperture would be set to something like f/11 and allow the depth of field to keep everything sharp.
To compose the picture there are two viewfinders. On the top of the camera is a simple frame which lifts up and can be used at eye-level.  Mounted on the shutter is a waist level finder which can be rotated to work in either landscape or portrait orientation, although it needs to be moved back to portrait for the bellows to close. Although the waist level finder is a nice addition I have to say I find it difficult to see anything in it – possibly the copy on my camera is simply too old and the silvering has degraded.
To set the exposure there is the Compur shutter and aperture arrangement, which offers a high level of control and shows that this camera was certainly a serious photographic tool at the time it was made. Many cameras at the time would have been simple box cameras with a single shutter speed and perhaps two aperture settings, so the 8 speeds + B + T and the 7 aperture stops makes a really impressive arrangement.
The shutter cocking and release is all mechanical and controlled by the photographer. There is a lever at the top of the shutter to cock it and another lever at the bottom to fire it, and no coupling to the film advance. When you use a camera like this you need to have a method set to either fire and wind or wind and fire and remember it so you don’t get missed frames or double exposures!
When the shutter is set to either of the longer settings i.e. Bulb or Time, it doesn’t need to be cocked but operates straight from the shutter release. For anyone not aware of the Bulb and Time settings they operate by just opening the shutter when the shutter release is pressed. In the case of Bulb the shutter opens until the release is, well, released, and for Time the shutter opens on one press of the release and then closes on a second press.
Nagel Vollenda Specifications
Nagel Vollenda medium format folding camera
Made in Germany in about 1930
8 exposures on a standard 120 film
Compur shutter offering 1sec to 1/250sec + B & T
Cable release socket
105mm f/4.5 Schneider-Kreuznach lens
Aperture f/4.5 to f/32
Multiblade (round) aperture
Frame viewfinder and rotatable waist level finder
Manual cocking and firing of shutter
Lens hood foot acts as table stand
Tripod bush on base and lens hood
Shutter Ser No: 2595363
Manual available on-line here.
Nagel Vollenda folding camera This is a pictorial post about the Nagel Vollenda folding camera which was made by Dr. August Nagel in, probably, the 1930s.
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panatomic-x · 6 years ago
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Kodak Vollenda 48
Compact folding-bed camera with self-erecting strut-supported lensboard.
Schneider Radionar Anastigmat 5cm F3.5 in Compur Rapid T, B, 1 to 1/500.
Folding view optical finder.
making 16 exposures(3×4cm) on the 127 film.
Made by Kodak A.G.(formerly Dr. Nagel-Werk) in Stuttgart, Germany.
Vollenda models were marketed in Europe but inthe United States.
Kodak A.G. Stuttgart, Germany.
1932 to 1937
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serdarvekedisi · 6 years ago
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Kodak Nagel Vollenda Type 48.(First made in 1930s-Germany) #kodak #nagelvolenda #germany #vinyl #turntable #reeltape #vintage #camera #photography #photographer #cassetterecords #cassettedeck #Audio #Audiophile #HighEnd #HighEndAudio #Tube #Amplifier #advertisement#walkman #discman #HiFi #Stereo #music #jazz #blues #16rpm #45rpm #33rpm #78rpm
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ourkodak3040 · 8 years ago
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August Nagel (Erfinder)
Zeiss Ikon Contessa, Modell LK
Kodak Vollenda, Modell 620
August Nagel (* 5. Juni 1882 in Pfrondorf; † 30. Oktober 1943 in Stuttgart) war ein deutscher Kamerafabrikant und -konstrukteur.
Nagel besuchte nach seiner Lehre in einer kleinen Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik eine Handelsschule und sammelte in verschiedenen Firmen käufmännische Erfahrungen. Seine gesamte Freizeit widmete er der Fotografie und der Konstruktion von Kameras.
Er gründete 1908, im Alter von 26 Jahren, zusammen mit seinem Freund Carl Drexler die Firma Drexler & Nagel in Stuttgart, die Fotoapparate und Fotobedarf herstellte. Die erste Kamera der jungen Firma war im Jahre 1908 die Contessa Nr. 1 für das Format 4 ½ × 7 cm, die nur 1 cm dick war und nicht mehr als 175 g wog.
Bereits 1909 erfolgte die Umfirmierung in Contessa-Camerawerke Stuttgart. Das sich ständig vergrößernde Werk entwickelte bis 1910 bereits 23 unterschiedliche Modelle, die weltweit exportiert wurden. Als leidenschaftlicher Flugsportler und Ballonfahrer leistete Nagel Pionierarbeit bei der Ideenentwicklung zur Verwendung von Kameras im kartographischen, geographischen und militärischen Bereich. Mit der Atlanta entwickelte er eine spezielle Ballonkamera. In Anerkennung der Arbeiten zur Entwicklung von Ballon- und Fliegerkameras verlieh die Universität Freiburg 1918 dem damals 36–jährigen ehrenhalber den Titel Dr. phil. rer. nat.
Während des Ersten Weltkriegs musste Nagel seine Fabrik mit 500 Mitarbeitern auf die Rüstungsproduktion umstellen. 1919 übernahm Nagel die Nettel-Camerawerke in Sontheim am Neckar. Er hatte zu diesem Zeitpunkt drei eigene Werke in Stuttgart, Reutlingen und Böblingen und verlagerte Nettels Produktion dorthin. Mit der Rollfilmkamera Picolette für das Format 4 × 6,5 cm (Typ 127) setzte Nagel im Jahre 1919 seine Erfolgsserie fort. Es folgte die Entwicklung der Corarette-Rollfilmkamera mit einem Filmführungsmechanismus, der eine besonders gute Planlage des Films gewährleistete. Mit der Deckrullo-Nettel entwickelte Contessa eine zeitgenössisch populäre Reise- und Pressekamera. Contessa-Nettel mit seinen über 1500 Mitarbeitern wurde 1926 Teil der neu gegründeten Zeiss Ikon AG mit Hauptsitz in Dresden, deren leitender Fabrikationsdirektor Nagel wurde.
Bereits 1928 trennte er sich wieder von Zeiss und gründete die Dr.-August-Nagel-Fabrik für Feinmechanik. In Modellen wie Librette und Recomar setzte Nagel seine Ansprüche handlicher und eleganter Kameras um. Die Zeitschrift Die deutsche Fotoindustrie berichtete 1933 über die Nagel-Werke: „Trotz der wirtschaftlichen Misere in dieser Zeit gelang es Dr. August Nagel, sein neues Unternehmen in kurzer Zeit zu hohem Ansehen zu bringen und seinen Erzeugnissen Weltruhm zu verschaffen.“ 1932 verkaufte er sein Unternehmen an die Kodak AG Berlin, behielt aber große Teile seiner Produktions-Souveränität.
Anfang der 1930er Jahre fand die von Oskar Barnack entwickelte Leica Camera immer größeren Anklang. Allerdings setzte ihr Preis den Stückzahlen noch enge Grenzen. So wird berichtet, dass bis 1933 weltweit nur etwa 16.700 Leicas verkauft werden konnten. Die Kleinbildfotografie war deshalb 1933 noch die Domäne einer Reihe von begüterten Amateurfotografen und von Fachfotografen. So fasste August Nagel den ehrgeizigen Plan, eine Kleinbildkamera für eine breite Käuferschicht zu entwickeln. Nach seiner Vorstellung sollte eine solche Volks-Kleinbildkamera technisch möglichst hochwertig und solide gebaut, dabei aber einfach in der Handhabung sein. Nicht zuletzt sollte ihr Verkaufspreis wesentlich unter dem der bisherigen Kleinbildkameras liegen. Durch die gewonnene finanzielle Kraft und den schlagkräftigen Vertrieb der Kodak AG konnte im Juli 1934 der Öffentlichkeit die Kodak Retina zu dem für eine Kleinbild-Präzisionskamera ebenso sensationellen wie populären Preis von 75 Mark vorgestellt werden, was wesentlich zum Erfolg der Kleinbildfotografie beitrug. Die Kommentare der Fachwelt zeigten, dass man diese Kamera allgemein als voll durchkonstruiert ansah. Umso erstaunlicher, dass Nagel in den folgenden Jahren bei unverändertem Grundkonzept eine ganze Reihe zum Teil wichtiger Verbesserungen in die Konstruktion der Kamera einbringen und auch noch preiswerte Versionen der Retina – die 1939 unter dem Namen Retinette auf den Markt kamen –entwickeln konnte. 1939 befand sich die Produktion eines breiten Kameraprogramms bei Kodak in Stuttgart auf dem Höhepunkt. Neben laufenden Verbesserungen der „Retina“ konnte er, unter anderen Neukonstruktionen, vor allem seine beliebte „Vollenda“-Rollfilmkamera-Serie in vielen Varianten fertigen.
August Nagel verstarb 1943 im Alter von 61 Jahren. Das Nagel-Werk, zu dieser Zeit wieder auf Rüstungsproduktion umgestellt, wurde 1944 bei Luftangriffen weitgehend zerstört.
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funkyuk · 7 years ago
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Pausing for refreshments with @EhPem while enjoying 127 film day. Old-standard Baby Rollei 2.8, Kodak Nagel-werk Vollenda, Yashica 44. Rerapan 100 and home-slit HP5plus. pic.twitter.com/g6F80KJjHy
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