Praktica
Sign in to savethumb|Praktica LLC with Pancolar 1.8/50 lens, the first 35 mm single-lens reflex camera with electrical diaphragm simulation between interchangeable lenses and camera body (1969) Praktica was a brand of camera manufactured by Pentacon in Dresden in eastern Germany, within the GDR between 1949 and the German reunification in 1990. The firm Pentacon was divided in mainly two parts and sold after German reunification. Schneider Kreuznach and Noble bought parts of it.
Key facts
- Company.name
- PRAKTICA
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Praktica SLRs
- Original Praktica
- Praktica IV / V
- Praktica nova / mat
- Praktica PL-series
- 1st generation L-series
- 2nd generation L-series
- 3rd generation L-series
- 4th generation L-series
- B-series
- BX-series
- Older company history
- See also
- External links
thumb|Praktica LLC with Pancolar 1.8/50 lens, the first 35 mm single-lens reflex camera with electrical diaphragm simulation between interchangeable lenses and camera body (1969) Praktica was a brand of camera manufactured by Pentacon in Dresden in eastern Germany, within the GDR between 1949 and the German reunification in 1990. The firm Pentacon was divided in mainly two parts and sold after German reunification. Schneider Kreuznach and Noble bought parts of it.
Pentacon is a Dresden-based company in the optical and precision engineering industry, which was at times a major manufacturer of photo cameras. The name Pentacon is derived on the one hand from the Contax brand of the Dresden Zeiss Ikon Kamerawerke and Pentagon (Greek for pentagon), because a pentaprism for SLR cameras developed for the first time in Dresden has this shape in cross section.
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