{"id":31127,"date":"2025-04-02T01:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T05:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=31127"},"modified":"2025-03-30T21:36:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T01:36:00","slug":"nailing-down-the-minicam-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/nailing-down-the-minicam-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"nailing down the minicam revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_31128\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20090820-retinaIIIc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31128\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31128\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20090820-retinaIIIc-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31128\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">mid 1950s Retina IIIc made in the Stuttgart NAgel Werks<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Some years ago, I had one of the early Retina camera models in my collection. I still have a slightly older <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/nailed-it\/\">Nagel Recomar<\/a>. When the minicam revolution took off, Kodak bought the Nagel factory (end of 1931) in Stuttgart to manufacture first the <a href=\"http:\/\/camera-wiki.org\/wiki\/Kodak_Recomar_33\">Recomar<\/a> line, and then the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kodak_Retina\">Retinas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 35mm Retinas became popular 35mm cameras at modest cost. When you visit our 2025 events you may well come across a Retina for your collection. And if not, odds are that another item will catch your eye and be added to your collection!<\/p>\n<p>The IIIc at left was sold in the mid 1950s (&#8217;54-&#8217;57). Other models were made earlier and later. The image, taken in August 2009, was enhanced with Topaz AI Photo, Focus Magic and Affinity Photo.<\/p>\n<p>See the right side of this site under PHSC EVENTS for our 2025 itinerary. As the date approaches I will pin a notice to the top of this page. Any event listed at right <strong>without<\/strong> a date is waiting confirmation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Some years ago, I had one of the early Retina camera models in my collection. I still have a slightly older Nagel Recomar. When the minicam revolution took off, Kodak bought the Nagel factory (end of 1931) in Stuttgart &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/nailing-down-the-minicam-revolution\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[398,675,58,21,4714],"class_list":["post-31127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","tag-camera","tag-events","tag-history","tag-kodak","tag-stuttgart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31130,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31127\/revisions\/31130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}