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     Sevo Tinkerer Username: Sevo Post Number: 67 Registered: 09-2008 Rating: N/A |
If the electronics fail, every electronic camera past manufacturer support is not worth fixing. But the Praktica B series models are quite reliable, and their electronics are less likely to have failed than their mechanics (or the mechanics of their predecessors) - indeed electronics failures are rare on that camera generation regardless of maker (omitting the odd lemon or two everybody made - but these mostly failed soon and did not make it into the nineties), if we consider battery compartment corrosion a mechanical problem. That the Prakticas are that unpopular at photo fairs may be due to them being the most unassuming of a huge bunch of very similar cameras - just about every other K mount camera (and that was the most generic mount at that time) has better handling, better looks, more features and is no less reliable, and all of them (except for the Pentax MX/LX) are equally dirt cheap - in a world where Pentax ME bodies sell for a tenner, a Praktica B200 can't even be considered a smart purchase at one Euro. |