Couple of Prakticas

[Tom hicks]

Picked these up awhile back . Both very clean . I understand these are the US imported versions .

[Tom hicks]

Now for the FX55 with an image from it . will post more when better subjects are aval.

[Livesteamer]

Nice. Now you need a 58mm f2.0 Biotar to go on it. A wonderful old lens. Joe

[John E Earley]

Nice cameras nicely presented.

[tunalegs]

I had a couple of Praktica FX cameras for a loooong time. Nicely made, but the lack of automatic aperture operation is the reason I stopped using them. My nice one seized up when I took it out last, unfortunately. Rather unusually large for a 35mm camera too.

[David Hughes]

Hi,

Nice ones and interesting to see a waist level finder; it's something most have forgotten.

Have you the instruction manual? From memory, it's needed to get the slow speeds but I could be wrong. I vaguely remember a centre dial being moved to go on to the slow ones...

Regards, David

[tunalegs]

You set the small dial so that the red arrows are aligned, and then select the red (slow speeds) with the lift and set dial.

[oftheherd]

I will have to look at my lenses at home. I don't remember seeing a Super Yashinon. Was that how all were marked and I have just forgotten, or is that unusual? I haven't been using my Yashinons for some time, although I think they are very good lenses.

[Tom hicks]

Originally Posted by oftheherd

I will have to look at my lenses at home. I don't remember seeing a Super Yashinon. Was that how all were marked and I have just forgotten, or is that unusual? I haven't been using my Yashinons for some time, although I think they are very good lenses.

Thanks , the Yashinon didn't come on the camera, when I bought it , I just put it on for the picture . I think most came with Zeiss or Meyer lens . Having the M42 mount sure opens up your lens choices.