The Vollenda was a line of models made by Nagel, later Kodak AG. The camera series was launched in 1929.
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The best known is the 3×4cm format Vollenda 48. It was a very compact folding camera making 16 exposures on the 127 film. It existed with a folding frame finder or a folding optical finder.
The lens and shutter combinations included:
- Schneider Radionar 5cm f:4.5 with Pronto 25-100
- Schneider Radionar 5cm f:3.5 with Compur 300
- Schneider Radionar 5cm f:3.5 with Compur-Rapid 500
- Schneider Xenar 5cm f:3.5 with Compur 300
- Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 5cm f:3.5 with Compur 300
- Leitz Elmar 5cm f:3.5 with Compur 300
- Schneider Xenar 5cm f:2.9 with Compur 300
- Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 5cm f:2.8 with Compur 300
Folding Nagel Volenda 6x9
by Ryszard Kobus
The cheapest ones had front cell focusing, the most expensive had helical focusing.
At the same time, Nagel was manufacturing the Pupille, a 3×4cm rigid camera that was a more expensive alternative to the Vollenda.
Also were manufactured a few types folding cameras for roll film type 620 (6x9).
Pocket size Vollenda
Links[]
- Vollenda 48 at Mike Elek's camera site [1]
- list of Vollenda types at ukcamera.com [2]
- Vollenda 620 manual on Mike Butkus's Manual site
- Vollenda with Kodak lens @ www.orphancameras.com
- At Sylvain Halgand's www.collection-appareils.fr :
- Nagel Vollenda (folding) at r-kobus.eu