Gorgeous Praktina Dave. Wow, a clockwork motor drive ! As always, an interesting camera review. Thanks for taking the time to create and inform us.
@DavidHancock4 жыл бұрын
Thank you! The whole lot of 50s cameras that I picked up last December were amazing. Wait till you see the one I'm saving for last this month. It makes this look like it came out of the back of a closet.
@petervanorsouw28584 жыл бұрын
@@DavidHancock great stuff.
@GonzoTheRosarian3 жыл бұрын
The Praktina FX was my introduction to 35 mm photography when I was young. The camera was my dad’s first 35 mm camera, he got it new, it was the rage then. I loved the Zeiss lens in the camera.
@DavidHancock3 жыл бұрын
Nice! These are still awesome cameras, too.
@GonzoTheRosarian3 жыл бұрын
Trying to find another in decent shape, it was that good a camera. An SLR with the soul (and weight) of a rangefinder!
@donaldlampert3313 жыл бұрын
I have all the variants, the bulk filmback, and the battery electric winder. They are well built, beautiful cameras, with an amazing, for the time, set of extras, attachments, and lenses available. Thanks for the review, and exposure that these fine, almost forgotten, cameras deserve!
@DavidHancock3 жыл бұрын
Thank you and very nice! That's a heck of a great collection.
@chrissoclone4 жыл бұрын
Nice to hear some praise for the early East German camera industry - usually it's all "commie cameras were garbage", but I find this piece of history fascinating, they invented a lot and, afaik, also blessed us with the M42 thread (correct me if I'm wrong, but I think they were before Pentax and Pentax adopted it). And I still think Prakticas are some of the best/cheapest/most reliable beginner cameras in times when K1000s are not that affordable on ebay anymore. Sure, in the 70s they lost the innovation race when the whole GDR industry went downhill, but the 70s/80s Prakticas are still good and reliable tools, just 10 years behind the competition.
@DavidHancock4 жыл бұрын
I totally agree. German cameras were amazing. And I do believe that M42 was originally the Practika mount, later the Pentax mount, because Pentax popularized and because of anti-Russo sentiments in the U.S. at the time.
@pedromeza23984 жыл бұрын
That is one interesting unique camera, I had heard of a mechanical winder motor, but have never seen one until your video. Thank you for a complete instructional video.
@DavidHancock4 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@MrMarkpoole4 жыл бұрын
Another interesting camera I hadn't seen before. I think my Werra was made in East Germany,but it's the only one I remember.You might do a video on that in the future.It's very different .
@DavidHancock4 жыл бұрын
Thank you. I have never gotten my hands on a Werra. Maybe someday, and if I do I will definitely make a video on it.
@imthatrcx3 жыл бұрын
Just purchase one of these in a camera shop in London. (Without Moto) but I have to ask what is the - K colour, T colour and numbers mean? I’m assuming it’s to do with setting the iso. I’m using a cheap tool for Kodak 200 colour so my logic is to set it on K - colour, being Kodak for K and colour of the the film 😂 could be completely wrong!
@DavidHancock3 жыл бұрын
Nice find! K refers to Kelvin and T to Tungsten. Kelvin would be daylight-balanced color film and Tungsten would be for use with indoor Tungsten light. Neither of those is very important with today's film stocks and scanning technology.
@imthatrcx3 жыл бұрын
@@DavidHancock for £15 believe it or not! And thanks for your the quick reply that’s very handy to know! 🤘🏼
@petervanorsouw28584 жыл бұрын
Where do you find these cameras? Evan thought I'll never use or evan have one it is great that you show them, thanks.
@DavidHancock4 жыл бұрын
Every camera this month, less the Retina and Spartus, came from a police auction in December. I have to imagine they were all owned by the same person, but no idea how they ended up at auction. As for other cameras throughout the year, estate and yard sales, thrift and antique stores, online, and subscribers who lend or gift me cameras they can't use or would like to see in the channel (most recently, the Mamiya 645 was loaned by a subscriber.)
@petervanorsouw28584 жыл бұрын
@@DavidHancock Thanks for your response. I thought my OM4 was primitive compared to todays cameras. I do likea the clock work winder. I once had a Minolta that literally ripped through film and sort of flash sinked above the prescribed setting with some of the film exposed. 35mm was frustrating and fun in those days. I marvel at today's say Canon EOS R5 and wonder what your review of it will be like in twenty years. That's if you can find one at an in the future boot sale, or whatever they will be traveling with?
@DavidHancock4 жыл бұрын
@@petervanorsouw2858 Thank you! I'm interested in reviewing the EOS R series sooner than that. I heard they have one in the works that's a 4x5 portrait-orientation camera. If so, I might pick that one up to review at some point in the near future. The R series as a whole looks like a set of really great cameras; I'm just not a fan of the EOS interface. Next month I'll be releasing some more DSLR manuals, though, and that should be fun.
@petervanorsouw28584 жыл бұрын
@@DavidHancock That review of the EOS R will be something that I will definitely be anticipating. It may give new life to Olympus zuiko lenses. The Interface issue will also be of great interest. Thank you again for your great work on photographery.
@Jlykyan4 жыл бұрын
what is the name of the bayonet?
@DavidHancock4 жыл бұрын
To the best of my knowledge, it's just called the Praktina Mount or Praktina Bayonet.
@stanislavnepochatov83814 жыл бұрын
I doubt about this camera being ahead of the time for twenty years. Nikon F killed competition in pro sector for several decades.
@ravajaxe4 жыл бұрын
Yes, it was the most advanced reflex camera, by far, up until Nikon F hit the market in 1959. The Praktina IIA then vanished from the market in 1960, without being a commercial success. But remember KW, the producer, was situated in the bad side of the iron curtain. The genius chief designer of the Praktina system, Sigfried Böhm, then reused many characteristics of the praktina system into the praktisix (later Pentacon six) medium format camera. They have very similar lens mounts arrangements for example.
@stanislavnepochatov83814 жыл бұрын
@@ravajaxe Yeah. There was also Zunow SLR in 1958. Also it seems point of copying from Praktina is correct. Images of Nikon F prototype shows additional optical viewfinder like one on Praktina.
@mjoelnir584 жыл бұрын
@@stanislavnepochatov8381 Nikon , the whole company is based on copying german designs and looting german patents, with the help of allied post war politics.
@stanislavnepochatov83814 жыл бұрын
@@mjoelnir58 Disagree. Nikon also advanced german concepts a lot. See soviet photoindustry as example of shameless copying and looting. Some of the cameras were produced from german parts.
@DavidHancock4 жыл бұрын
Yes, for sure. The F was comparable. So were the Canon F-1, Pentax LX, and to a much lesser extent the Miranda Sensorex. But here is my point: KW Praktina FX: 1953 Nikon F: 1959, but really the early 1960s before it was very popular and became part of mainstream thought in any way. Miranda Sensorex: 1966 Canon F-1: 1971 Pentax LX: 1980 So Nikon were at least seven years behind KW, Miranda 13, Canon 18, and Pentax 27. Does that help clarify what I was saying?