Industrial

Praktica, Pentacon company product, was the best 35 mm SLR camera available in
Poland, in Foto-Optyka shops, in the 70s and 80s, after withdrawing Exacta from
production in 1974! Word "available" was written symbolically."Availability" of Praktica,
especially in the 80s, was meaning that cameras weren't available in normal trade. To
have such a camera one had to ask friends to buy it in German Democratic Republic.
People who hadn't such possibilities had to be overcharged buying this camera on the
markets or consignment stores. In Foto-Optyka shops some additional equipment was
sometimes available, e.g. lenses, bellows, internal rings etc. In the 70s and 80s two
kinds of Praktica cameras were produced. One kind: models with lenses mounted with