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Hello everyone, I bought an old Kodak Retinette 1A in a fleamarket. It seems to be in working condition, although I'll only know for sure after I developed the first photos. I found a manual for a later version (or a different one, the manual is in English and the camera is from Germany) but the lense and the labeling on the lenses are very different from mine.

I was hoping maybe someone with more knowledge of photography could help me make an educated guess. I assume the part labelled with an "m" is distance in meter, but otherwise I have no clue.

Update: Unfortunately the developed Film came out empty, so either I made a terrible mistake or the camera is broken :(

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[โ€“] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

22 is the apature and the other is the shutter speed in thousands of sec.

Correction:

...shutter speed in fractions of 1 sec.
1/30, 1/60, 1/125 etc.

[โ€“] AbidingOhmsLaw@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Correct, fixed.