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Vintage Praktica cameras<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If you are interested in using or collecting vintage Praktica cameras, you need to be aware of the complicated history of the company \/ brand.  You will have to research the many different East German companies that were intertwined – Petntacon, Praktica,  KW, Carl Zeiss Jena,
The end of WW2 saw the Dresden-based KW camera company under Soviet control.  The Praktica camera was launched in 1949, with the soon-to-be famous M42 lens mount.  There followed a succession of SLR cameras of varying quality, that became very popular in the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ageing M42 lens mount was finally abandoned in 1979 with the introduction of the B (presumably for ‘Bayonet’) mount and cameras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company entered liquidation in 1990, although another company acquired the Praktica trademark and carried on with the production the the last Praktica SLR camera the BX20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Praktica BMS Electronic<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Date: c.1990
Country of origin: East Germany (German Democratic Republic)
Type: SLR
Meter:  TTL
Shutter: Metal Focal-plane (vertical) – electronically controlled
Speeds: 4s to 1\/1000th seconds
Lens: Interchangeable Parktica B-Mount (Pentacon Prakticar 50mm f\/1.8 currently fitted).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The B-series cameras were launched in 1989 as the first Prakticas to abandon the M42 mount in favour of a more modern and practical bayonet mount.  Production ceased in 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Praktica BMS SLR camera<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Vintage Praktica cameras If you are interested in using or collecting vintage Praktica cameras, you need to be aware of the complicated history of the company \/ brand.  You will have to research the many different East German companies that were intertwined – Petntacon, Praktica,  KW, Carl Zeiss Jena,The end of WW2 saw the Dresden-based KW camera company … Continue reading Praktica cameras<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-361","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":833,"href":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/361\/revisions\/833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}