KODAK AG-NAGEL Recomar f4.5 Anastigmat Lens Large Format Camera

Description

Information from Camera-Wiki ( http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Kodak_Recomar_33)
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The
Kodak Recomar 33
is a 3¼×4¼ (9x12cm) folding bed camera, made by the German
Kodak AG
since 1932. Originally the same model had been the
Nagel No.33
, made from 1928 until 1932, when
Kodak
acquired the
Nagel
camera works of Stuttgart, Germany.
When collapsed, the Recomar is not much wider or taller than a 9x12 dark slide, and about two inches deep. When the bed is opened the designers' ingenuity for packing many many features into a small space is clear. The front standard has knobs for rise/fall and horizontal shift (about five degrees in any given direction when the camera is focused at infinity, or less when the camera is focused very close), as well as a special collapsing, pivoting brilliant finder. This finder is hinged so that it folds into a very compact shape when the camera is closed.  Also mounted on the front standard is a large hoop that forms the front of the sports finder; coupled with a folding rear eyepiece on the body of the camera, this allows fast eye-level viewing.
The bed has a double-extension rail that doubles as a focusing rack. When the standard is pulled out to the infinity stop, the stop can be released and the rack can be moved forward using a knob to focus closer than infinity.
The camera comes equipped with a ground-glass slide with a collapsing leather hood, for direct focusing. This cannot accommodate a dark slide and must be removed before inserting one.
Shutter
The shutter is a
Compur
model, lacking flash synchronization but with a (for the time) full range of speeds from 1 second to 1/200th, plus T and B, as well as a self timer. The self timer is not immediately obvious. To use it, one cocks the shutter (not at 1/200th, T or B), presses a small catch on top of the shutter and then pushes the cocking lever even further to tension the timer.
There is a cable release socket, awkwardly placed near the rise/fall knob.
Lens
The lens is a Schneider-Kreuznach, as most German Kodak lenses are. It is the notably fast Xenar f:4.5 135mm, uncoated. The aperture range goes down to f:32 from wide open. Large format is forgiving enough of diffraction that even this small aperture is considered usable.