Page Content
The Praktisix is a medium format single-lens reflex film camera manufactured in the German Democratic Republic at the VEB Pentacon plant.
Praktisix Specifications
| Issue | Kombinat veb pentacon dresden | Chief Designer | Siegfried Boehm |
| Production period |
? | Total produced | ? |
| Shutter | Mechanically controlled horizontal travel with focal fabric shutters gate | Available excerpts shutter |
B, 1/1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/15 1/30, 1/60, 1/125, 1/250,1/500, 1/1000 |
| Viewfinder | Mine replaceable (pentaprism, TTL-pentaprism, waist level viewfinder, focusing magnifier with corrective lens) with various types of field lenses (7 types) | Mirror | Returned manually |
| Film feed | lever, automatic zeroing of the frame counter | Bayonet mount | Pentakon six bajonett |
| Self-descent | Mechanical, 10 sec | Battery | PX-13 (625) |
| Metering system |
Optional TTL-measurement in pentaprism, ASA from 6 to 1600 (DIN 9-33) with battery PX-13 (625) | Flash | external, X-sync (1/15), FP for lamps (1/8), connectors on the body behind the lens |
| Flash indication |
no | Aperture display in viewfinder |
no |
| Notes | Lens | Biometar 2.8 / 80 Carl Zeis | |
Practice II
Medium format single-lens reflex film camera manufactured in the GDR at the VEB Pentacon plant.
Specifications Praktisix II
| Issue | Kombinat veb pentacon dresden | Chief Designer | Siegfried Boehm |
| Production period |
? | Total produced | ? |
| Shutter | Mechanically controlled horizontal travel with focal fabric shutters gate | Available excerpts shutter |
B, 1/1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/15 1/30, 1/60, 1/125, 1/250,1/500, 1/1000 |
| Viewfinder | Mine replaceable (pentaprism, TTL-pentaprism, waist level viewfinder, focusing magnifier with corrective lens) with various types of field lenses (7 types) | Mirror | Returned manually |
| Film feed | lever, automatic zeroing of the frame counter | Bayonet mount | Pentakon six bajonett |
| Self-descent | Mechanical, 10 sec | Battery | LR44 |
| Metering system |
TTL-measurement in pentaprism, ASA from 6 to 1600 (DIN 9-33) with battery PX-13 (625) | Flash | external, X-sync (1/15), FP for lamps (1/8), connectors on the body behind the lens |
| Flash indication |
no | Aperture display in viewfinder |
no |
| Notes | Lens | Biometar 2.8 / 80 Carl Zeiss Jena | |