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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.

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[–] limelight79@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

I have a Graflex that looks similar. To focus the Graflex, you look through the one viewfinder, and find something vertical in the image (a pole, for example) and get it to line up vertically. There a horizontal line in the viewfinder.

That viewfinder doesn't actually show the true composition of the image though. That's a different viewfinder!