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Lord of the Dings
I've had a bit of a blind spot for East German cameras for a long time (family history, my mother grew up under that rotten regime) so I just recently realized how nice and compact those early Prakticas look. And the Praktina! Squint a little and it's a Contax RF with a waist-level finder. Love the direct finder, it's like the poor man's Asahiflex! Not hard to find or overly expensive, either, particularly on ebay Germany.
On the other hand, I do have an Exa 1b, and between the lowly lens (Domiplan 50/2.8) and the masochistic ritual of a non-square WLF, it's not exactly getting a workout. So somebody please me get through this particular GAS attack.
By the way, that Domiplan is currently my only M42 lens, to say nothing of the proprietary Praktina mount. See how nuts I am to even think about this? Help!
On the other hand, I do have an Exa 1b, and between the lowly lens (Domiplan 50/2.8) and the masochistic ritual of a non-square WLF, it's not exactly getting a workout. So somebody please me get through this particular GAS attack.
By the way, that Domiplan is currently my only M42 lens, to say nothing of the proprietary Praktina mount. See how nuts I am to even think about this? Help!