German Kodak was established in 1932. The first Kodak Retina was born in 1934, which was compact in the world. After that German Kodak had been manufacturing World popular Retina camera to the late of 1960.

Retina IIa(photo) was made in 195. It was first model which the lever wind wa used for retina. Attached lens was Schneider Xenon 50mm F2.