Kamera-Werkstätten AG, Niedersedlitz prospered, and in 1939 launched the 35mm SLR Praktiflex camera. The concept proved successful, and through continuous development...
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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...
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Contax (now owned by the Carl Zeiss company), Ica, Ernemann, Exakta, Praktiflex, and many more. Among the innovative legacies of the predecessor firms...
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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...
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arrangement. In 1939, Kamerawerk Niedersedlitz Dresden presented the Praktiflex at the Leipzig spring fair. The camera was a waist type with an M40x1...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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