page_title: Kodak Retina Reflex
section_title: Retina Reflex III
hierarchical_section_title: Kodak Retina Reflex / Retina Reflex III
caption_attribution_description: English: Retina Reflex type III
context_page_description: The Kodak Retina Reflex is a discontinued series of four single-lens reflex cameras made by Kodak, continuing the brand Kodak Retina.
context_section_description: A later variant is the Type 041 Retina Reflex III. It was made from 1960 to 1964.
  Its match-needle meter instrument scale is visible in the viewfinder as well as on the top plate. The camera was originally equipped with the same coupled selenium meter as the Reflex S, but after 1962 a larger one was fitted, again made by Gossen. The Reflex III features the same "setting wheel" and interlocking aperture/shutter rings as the Reflex S.  As it was fashion in the early 1960s the shutter release button on top was replaced by a shutter release shifter beside the lens mount. The film advance release button was eliminated, that function being incorporated in the frame reset slider, which was moved to the bottom plate along with the (still) manually reset frame counter. The ASA setting button was moved from the ASA dial to the spot vacated by the release button.
  This redesign made a new camera case design necessary, leaving additional space for the frame counter, and the frame reset slider. The Retina Reflex cases were already something special before since the film advance lever (Reflex) and aperture/shutter setting wheel (Reflex S) are located on the bottom. The photo shows just how complex the Retina case had become.
  The Reflex III has the same aperture/shutter setting wheel (which Kodak called simply the "setting wheel") and interlocking aperture/shutter rings as the Reflex S.
  The Retina Reflex III originally sold for $248.50 USD (app. $2,000 USD in 2014). Approximately 116,000 were made.
caption: Bottom of the Retina Reflex III with the winding lever, the frame counter, the counter advance button and the back opening
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