[rollei_list] Re: Praktisix - ugly duckling or capable MF?
- From: Peter J Nebergall <iusar4s@xxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 11:59:58 -0500
Just incidentally, a friend of mine is an expert Exakta repairman, and
that includes the Exakta 66. Miles Upton, in Springfield, Missouri, usa,
e-mail: exaktaphile@xxxxxxx
I will try to see if he'll look into a Praktisix.
P.J. Nebergall
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 08:45:02 -0700 (GMT-07:00) mak@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> I have and enjoy a Kiev 60 TTL I used to import hundreds of them and
> find them a funky but very satisfying camera to use. The Praktisix
> has a weaker advance mechanism. All else is the same. Perhaps
> someday I will find a cheap Exakta 66...buy one...lots of fun great
> brokeh Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Decher <Jan.Decher@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sep 15, 2005 7:52 AM
> To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Praktisix - ugly duckling or capable MF?
>
> Peter:
> I was interested in the Praktisix too. I find it the most
> attractive
> of the Praktisix-Pentacon Six-Exakta 66 lot. Albeit the one I won
> on
> EBAY a year ago was in terrible shape internally and THE expert on
> the
> subject, Carsten Bobsin in Berlin (praktisix@xxxxxx) told me that
> unfortunately the Praktisix is the least reliable of the lot.
> Serious users of the camera like the German zoologist Prof. Grzimek
> typically went through several bodies in a short time in order to
> keep
> shooting.
> I might still buy a clean one some day just for it's looks and to
> get
> the sharp Biometar.
> Jan
>
> On Thursday, September 15, 2005, at 03:02 AM, FreeLists Mailing List
>
> Manager wrote:
> > From: Peter J Nebergall <iusar4s@xxxxxxxx>
> > I just picked up a Praktisix, which is a
> Kamera-Werkstatten/Pentacon
> > 6x6
> > slr resembling an Exakta 66 crossed with KW's 35mm Praktina.
> Shutter
> > is
> > FP, and lens is a postwar, coated CZ-Jena Biometar (a Biotar
> variant?)
> > 80mm 2.8, #5594711. Will see if it remotely compares with 80mm
> 2.8
> > Tessar on Super Ikonta -- not likely!
>
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