Testing the little Kodak Pupille. These are palm sized cameras made in the early 1930's at the Nagel factory in Stuttgart. Kodak bought the factory and continued to produce quite a few of the Nagel designs and then eventually some of their own high quality instruments such as the famous Retina series. The workmanship in all of these pre war German cameras is exceptional, truly a golden age of mechanical craftsmanship and the beginning of modern films.

Photographer:
clickiemcpete
Uploaded:
2013-03-13
Camera:
Kodak Pupille 1930's
Film:
Rollei Retro 80s 127 roll film
City:
massachusetts
Country/region:
United States
Albums:
Kodak Pupille Test Roll

4 Comments

  1. lokified
    lokified ·

    Just googled the camera, what a wacky looking thing! Did you get the weird binocular attachment? camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Pupille

  2. clickiemcpete
    clickiemcpete ·

    @lokified, Hehe, that is an early rangefinder attachment made by Leitz. Leitz supplied those to certain other cameras companies so they weren't just for the early Leicas. You would take your rangefinder reading and then transfer to the lens manually. Kinda cumbersome but it did work if you had the time. But yes, I have a couple of those along with all the accessories, filters, etc. that were made for the Pupilles. One of my Pupille examples came with a nifty leather case that holds an entire kit.

  3. clickiemcpete
    clickiemcpete ·

    @lokified, oh, are you talking about the reflex attachment? That I do not have, but I agree, it's wild looking. There were some other cameras at that time that had similar weird setups such as the Exactas.

  4. trw
    trw ·

    Great quality photos from an 80+ year old camera - very impressive!

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