[rollei_list] Re: More R...35mm Pro cameras, Pentax

  • From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:23:23 -0400

At 05:56 PM 3/28/2010, Elias_Roustom wrote:
>Since you're talking about 35mm SLRs, one that worked much like the
>TLR, and one I miss very much since it stopped working about 25 years
>ago is Dad's old Xacta with the waist level finder. I understand some
>of those lenses were stellar performers. What put them out of
>business, Japan?
Do you mean the Ihagee Exakta? The lenses were stunning and the system was superlative. They were killed off by Communism -- the Nasty DDR nationalized them in 1963 and they were effectively out of business by 1965. Sorry, guys, but those ARE the facts!
Exakta bodies are relatively cheap today and this is an entire and complete system camera, with more doo-dads than were ever made for Leica or Contax. I know I have an Exakta T-Mount adapter and I believe I still have a Novoflex P-system Exatka adapter and a Kilfitt Exakta adapter. It is a great camera. 

Marc


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