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Whether this was from vanity or out of a sense of mischief directed at his former colleagues at Zeiss, I don't know. Even the 'Doctor' title he was so fond of using, was just an Honourary one bestowed upon him in 1918 by Freiburg University in recognition of his contributions to the German camera industry. Nagel's speeches in which he does not pull any punches about his opinion of the Zeiss Board. Mark Small, the noted Zeiss luminary, has transcripts of Dr. It's on record that Dr Nagel kept a decent-sized chip on his shoulder about Zeiss for the rest of his life.

Anyway, he formed a new company in Stuttgart, called, unsurprisingly, the Dr August Nagel-Werke. Lack of tertiary qualifications, which the others had in spades. Urban Legend has it that the other Board members were fond of putting Dr. Dr Nagel reputedly had several heated arguments with the other Board members over policy and design, leading him to finally walk out in 1928. Management of the new conglomerate was not all beer, skittles and long lunches. In 1926 Contessa-Nettel went into partnership with other famed names such as Erneman, Goertz, ICA and Zeiss to form the Zeiss Ikon AG. In 1909 the company changed its name to Contessa KW and in 1919 amalgamated with Nettel KW to form Contessa-Nettel. Having started out in 1908 in partnership with a Herr Drexler in 1908 to produce cameras under the name of Drexler & Nagel. Nagel was possibly the most important single figure in German camera development, August Nagel, who was born in 1867 and died in 1943. We have to start with the boss himself, Dr. For those into such things, the surface area of a Retina 24 X 36 mm 35mm film is 864 square mm, compared to 2365 square mm for the Duo-620's actual useable area of 57 X 41 mm.Д«efore getting into the model specifics, let's take a look at the background of the Kodak/Nagel-Werk.

#Kodak vollenda 620 series

All variants are very compact, the Series 1 especially which is not much bigger than its stablemate the 35mm Retina, but has a useable film area almost three times as big.

There were just three main models of this camera, but thanks to various lens and shutter combinations some 25 variants exist, as listed later. The '620' part of its title comes from 620 reel film used. Other makers sometimes used the term 'Semi' instead of 'Duo'. The 'Duo' tag does not refer to dual format capability but to its half-frame format of a nominal 6 X 4.5 cm, giving 16 pics compared to the 8 from the standard 6 X 9 cm format. The compact Kodak Duo-620 folder was made from 1933 to 1940 by the Kodak AG/Nagel-Werk in Stuttgart. Sorry, but that doesn't always work because the precious internal film strip is now facing the wrong direction so its loose trailing edge is now the leading edge, and can go its own uncontrolled way.Article courtesy of Peter Naylor from Perth, Western Australia.

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Others have suggested that one of those cameras that were both 120 and 620 compatable, such as several British-made folders from the 50s, can be used to wind on a 120 full reel onto an empty 620 blank reel, and then just reverse things onto another blank 620 reel.

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Some of our Group members reckon it's easier to go another route, and just rewind the 120 film inside a 620 reel's backing paper in a darkroom - but for that, you first need that precious strip of backing paper in good condition, not to mention a darkroom, plus a 620 spool. So even that easiest normal solution of 'nibbling' away at the wider flanges on 120 reels with nail cutters to get them down to 620 flange dimensions, is difficult and requires a fair bit of post-surgery careful filing to get the now-reduced diameter flanges to rotate smoothly without binding or jamming. Basically, it's not as easy to do for the Duo 620 as it is for some other cameras designed for 620 film, due to cramped space. I guess I should also add that the matter of modifying 120 reel film to 620, has been brought up before in the Yahoo Duo 620 Group's files.