My favourite folding camera

[rumtea]

It would be hard for me to pick a favorite, I have quite a few.[/quote]

Oh wow! It's nice to have flash like that. I still haven't figure out how to use flash with mine.

[melek]

Hi have two Kodak Retina Ia which have different lens. One is the one in picture has a Xenar lens. I don't really see the different between them accept the Xenar lens seem to appear on the market more often than the Shnieder lens

The Xenar is a Schneider lens. Kodak used a lot of sources for lenses for the Retina before finally settling with either Schneider or Rodenstock. Early on, some Retinas had lenses from Schneider, Zeiss, Rodenstock, Angenieux and its own Kodak-branded Ektar (made by ???). The Ektar-equipped camera was for the U.S. market.

Nearly all of my Retinas have the Xenar, including the later "b/B" and "c/C" models. I have a Retina II that I bought from a colleague. It was his dad's camera, and it has an f/2.0 Ektar. I have somewhere a Retina IIc with a Rodentock Heliogon.

The Retinas are really good cameras, although I stopped chasing the various models on eBay years ago.