Nagel-Werke was a short-lived German camera maker. But its owner and chief camera designer, Dr August Nagel, would change the photographic world forever.
Born in 1882, the young August Nagel was constructing cameras even when he was a boy. By 1908, at just 26, he and his friend Carl Drexler had started Drexler & Nagel in Stuttgart to produce their Contessa No 1 – a well-made, compact camera that used 127 film.
