Thanks for this documentary! I wanted to go back to film photography and I bought a newstock mtl3 praktica, it's perfect and it work great! I love the ddr story about it
If one is learning photography, it is necessary to do some film photography to understand everything. Developing and printing is nice. I did so much of it when I was a young man the thought of touching those terrible chemicals puts me right off now :) Don't let that put you off, however, there is nothing like watching a print come up in the developing tray. Amazing experience.
That must be the Exakta RTL1000 - a really nice camera made in 1969, I think. It was to help Exakta users keep their really good lenses and have a modern body to use them on. It was, unfortunately, panned by the media as a fake Exakta, which it certainly was not, in my opinion. The Exakta company was absorbed into the company that made the RTL1000. I take my hat off to them. The camera is very collectible, can be picked up for about £50 - one needs the special lens really, that came with it, or an old Exakta mount lens will also do, yet not for the open aperture metering. I was lucky and managed to pick up both lens and body in the same Ebay timeframe yet from separate sellers - both at a good price. My favourite camera in the collection. A total classic industrial design.
PB mount There were 7 models in the more modern and compact B-System Production period: December 1979 to December 1988 Your Jenaflex AM-1 was produced from 1985 - 1987 The Jenaflex sucessor, the BM/S , then the BX20s were the last produced I’m an avid Pentacon/Carl Ziess Jena collector and agree with most of your knowledge. Interesting channel, on a complicated subject, cheers.
You are right, complicated. It took me months of research to get to the bottom of it. I only gave the overview, of course. The detail, like the BX20 and other specific models I left out to simplify it as much as possible. They seemed to have the same body style as the Jenaflex. Let me know if I am wrong there. Even so, it is a lot of videos to watch to get the full story.
Thanks, I love Praktica cameras, and have at least one of each Praktica models!
Adoro estas câmeras analógicas, tenho várias, Miranda, Nikon e muitos acessórios!
Parabéns pelo excelente documentário!
Je viens d'acquérir un Praktica BX 20 S (dernier modèle fabriqué en RDA) ! je suis heureux ;)
Thanks for this documentary! I wanted to go back to film photography and I bought a newstock mtl3 praktica, it's perfect and it work great! I love the ddr story about it
If one is learning photography, it is necessary to do some film photography to understand everything. Developing and printing is nice. I did so much of it when I was a young man the thought of touching those terrible chemicals puts me right off now :) Don't let that put you off, however, there is nothing like watching a print come up in the developing tray. Amazing experience.
I'm curious about that camera sitting in front of the camera bag..bears a close resemblance to a Nikon F with a TN Photomic metering head.
That must be the Exakta RTL1000 - a really nice camera made in 1969, I think. It was to help Exakta users keep their really good lenses and have a modern body to use them on. It was, unfortunately, panned by the media as a fake Exakta, which it certainly was not, in my opinion. The Exakta company was absorbed into the company that made the RTL1000. I take my hat off to them. The camera is very collectible, can be picked up for about £50 - one needs the special lens really, that came with it, or an old Exakta mount lens will also do, yet not for the open aperture metering. I was lucky and managed to pick up both lens and body in the same Ebay timeframe yet from separate sellers - both at a good price. My favourite camera in the collection. A total classic industrial design.
well done on 100 subs!
That's very kind of you
PB mount
There were 7 models in the more modern and compact B-System
Production period: December 1979 to December 1988
Your Jenaflex AM-1 was produced from 1985 - 1987
The Jenaflex sucessor, the BM/S , then the BX20s were the last produced
I’m an avid Pentacon/Carl Ziess Jena collector and agree with most of your knowledge.
Interesting channel, on a complicated subject, cheers.
You are right, complicated. It took me months of research to get to the bottom of it. I only gave the overview, of course. The detail, like the BX20 and other specific models I left out to simplify it as much as possible. They seemed to have the same body style as the Jenaflex. Let me know if I am wrong there. Even so, it is a lot of videos to watch to get the full story.
I won't ever do film again after 2002 but I do really enjoy listening to the history of all cameras.