I think the optical design of the Kodak Ektra, the only quality Kodak camera with which I am familiar, is exemplary. The mechanical design is poor, it is complex and difficult to make and it has a couple of weaknesses which make it inaccurate and unreliable. The rangefinder optics look super but the mechanism connecting the optics to the lens is awful.
FWIW, Frank On 24 Oct, 2009, at 00:22, Richard Knoppow wrote:
. The Kodak lens is reputedly excellent but the camera shares with other Kodak cameras rather poor ergonomics. Also, while the rangefinder has a long base the very small focusing window makes it difficult to use. The camera is also nose-heavy but that may actually steady it for some people. It has always bothered me that Kodak did not make cameras of equal quality to their lenses. I think they had the means to do it but for some reason did not. They did make very good view and studio cameras and a good motion picture camera but their still cameras mostly left something to be desired. I do not include the Retina series in this, they were quite good cameras, but it was not a product of Kodak in Rochester.
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