Initially the products were very conventional for the time,
folding plate cameras. In 1921 they introduced the Roll-Paff-
Reflex, a simple box SLR which set them on the road to SLR
development. They continued to develop the SLR design with a
Patent Klapp Reflex, a folding large format SLR on par with the
leading camera manufactures. When they introduced the Vest
Pocket Exakta in early 1933, they established an innovative line
of cameras that were going to change history. These were a line
of 127 SLR cameras with focal plane shutters. They were compact,
durable and ergonomic. They were joined in 1936 by Kine-Exakta ,
the smaller 35mm version of the V.P. Exakta. While not the first
35mm SLR, that honor having being taken by the GOMZ Sport from
Russia the previous year. It was however, the first 35mm SLR
that mattered (the Sport was an odd looking camera that never
made an impact on the market). During the prewar years Ihagee
made a variety of other cameras, mostly folding plate and
rollfilm cameras, and a line o