Vollenda

The Vollenda was a line of models made by Nagel, later Kodak AG. The camera series was launched in 1929.

Vollenda 48

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

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.

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 48/0
  • Nagel Vollenda 70/0
  • Nagel Vollenda 70/1

• Nagel Volenda (folding) at http://r-kobus.eu/?q=EN/node/259