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Prakti (Pentacon)

Scott Birdby Scott Bird
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The Pentacon Prakti is a motorised 35mm manufactured in the former GDR, in 1960. It’s a rangefinder with a fixed 40mm f3.5 Meyer-Optik Domiton lens.




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Can you tell me how the light meter in this camera works- should the needle be in the centre?

Posted by: Janina Green | March 14, 2004 5:17 AM

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Can you tell me how the light meter in this camera works- should the needle be in the centre?

Posted by: Janina Green | March 14, 2004 5:19 AM

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The Prakti is programmed to provide automatic exposure on the four white-background settings, i.e. action, scenery, groups and portraits.
The built-in meter will set the lens aperture according to the lighting conditions and indicates the aperture in use on the yellow scale in the viewfinder. This is just for information - you can’t do anything to change it.
Hope this is some use. I don’t have an instruction book for the camera but I have some details of the programmed settings it uses for different subjects if of interest.
Jim Pemberton

Posted by: Jim Pemberton | June 26, 2004 7:26 AM

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