Kamera-Werkstätten AG, Niedersedlitz prospered, and in 1939 launched the 35mm SLR Praktiflex camera. The concept proved successful, and through continuous development...

rangefinder copy, a relatively simple task. Instead, Asahi decided to copy the Praktiflex, a 1939 design, made in the German Democratic Republic. Asahi's designers...

Contax (now owned by the Carl Zeiss company), Ica, Ernemann, Exakta, Praktiflex, and many more. Among the innovative legacies of the predecessor firms...

Production of the Praktiflex camera resumed with a minimum of parts supply, but development of new and improved models soon resulted in the Praktiflex II. John...

arrangement. In 1939, Kamerawerk Niedersedlitz Dresden presented the Praktiflex at the Leipzig spring fair. The camera was a waist type with an M40x1...

Bayonet Photography Sigma SA Paxette 44 mm 35 mm M39 1 mm Screw Photography Praktiflex 44 mm 35 mm M40 1 mm Screw Photography Praktica 44.40 mm 35 mm 42 mm Bayonet...

be made of the immediate pre-war and immediate post-war models of the Praktiflex, which could be properly called the inspiration for the Asahiflex. This...

The Alpa-Reflex is only predated by the Kine Exakta, the Sport, and the Praktiflex 35mm SLRs. The manufacturer was Pignons S.A, Ballaigues, and the designer...

1936 Kine Exakta. Influential cameras designs like that of the 1939 KW Praktiflex, the 1949 ZI Contax S, and 1952 the KW Praktina marked the steady progress...