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This Retina came with an uncoated, f/3.5-f/16, 50 mm Kodak Anastigmat EKTAR, which is a tessar type lens with four elements in three groups. "Ektar" was Kodak's trademark for their best corrected lenses, and did not necessarily designate a particular lens design. The distance scale is in feet, and the closest focusing distance is 3-1/2 feet.
The shutter has speeds of 1, 1/2, 1/5, 1/10, 1/25, 1/50, 1/100, 1/250 and 1/500 seconds, plus bulb and time settings, and is not synchronized for flash. The shutter release and the film advance are not interlocked, making it possible to unintentionally double expose or skip a picture.
The camera takes 35mm film in the daylight loading cassettes ("magazines" in Kodakese) that are still made today. The top of the camera has an accessory shoe for a Kodak Pocket Range Finder. You read the distance to the subject from the range finder, and then transfer the distance to the lens. Otherwise you can estimate the distance by eye and rely on depth of field for sharp focus.
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