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Gez
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Username: Gez
Post Number: 236
Registered: 09-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, November 05, 2010 - 03:07 pm: | 
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What's the forum consensus on Praktica's models of the 1980's, the electronic bayonet mount models? At almost every camera fair these cameras are unlovingly shoved into the bargain box and nobody seems interested in them.
What, if any, are the best or least risky models to choose? The bayonet CZJ lenses look impressive but does their performance match their looks? |
Barnum
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Username: Barnum
Post Number: 184
Registered: 10-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, November 05, 2010 - 04:17 pm: |
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Hello.
In my experience the electronic jobs go wrong with monotonous regularity, & are mostly extremely difficult or impossible to repair. If you are into Praktica cameras, my advice is that you stick with the manual models. |
Sevo
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Username: Sevo
Post Number: 67
Registered: 09-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, November 09, 2010 - 04:08 pm: |
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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. |
Alexmax021
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Username: Alexmax021
Post Number: 1
Registered: 11-2010
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, November 19, 2010 - 08:27 pm: |
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Hi!
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Leesobing
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Username: Leesobing
Post Number: 67
Registered: 01-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, December 08, 2010 - 08:59 pm: |
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Dear Gez,
If you like praktica SLR model anymore you can visit this website:http://www.praktica-collector.de/SLR_all.htm
PB MOUNT:
http://www.praktica-b.org/
http://praktica-users.com/index2.html
why PB-mount not such welcome,It may be
1)Dead system,some people will ask PB-mount can using on Canon EF with adapter.
2)More of PB mount zoom made from Sigma or korea.
3)Marketshare Japanese have large % since Japanese more advantage well design like Japanese Cameara only use 2 SR44 cells but B using4 Sr44 cells.
In fact that, DDR lens not bad but lack of market Strategy.after 90's Pentacon lack of money for develop new model and quit. |
