KW Praktina FX Video 1: Overview, Features, Interface, Buttons, Dials, History, and Market
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
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KW, a fascinating company in its own right, created cameras that set the bar for what a 35mm camera should be by asking, and answering with exquisite design and engineering, what a 35mm camera could be. The Praktina, the earliest complete system camera, features ideas and designs that many manufacturers would not top for ten to twenty years after the camera's release. Still very serviceable today, the cameras were engineered beautifully and precisely and the lens provided exceptional quality. One of the very underrated, and too-easily-bypassed German camera companies, KW was, however, one of the best and most forward-thinking.
Video Index:
Skip the Intro: 0:15
KW Praktina FX Overview: 0:22
KW Praktina FX Features -- Top: 3:09
KW Praktina FX Features -- Front: 4:28
KW Praktina FX Features -- Back: 5:23
KW Praktina FX Features -- Bottom: 5:32
KW Praktina FX Features -- Inside: 5:46
Notes on the KW Praktina FX: 6:58
Things NOT to do with your KW Praktina FX: 8:26
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The Praktina FX was my introduction to 35 mm photography when I was young. The camera was my dad’s first 35 mm camera, he got it new, it was the rage then. I loved the Zeiss lens in the camera.
Nice! These are still awesome cameras, too.
Trying to find another in decent shape, it was that good a camera. An SLR with the soul (and weight) of a rangefinder!
Gorgeous Praktina Dave. Wow, a clockwork motor drive ! As always, an interesting camera review. Thanks for taking the time to create and inform us.
Thank you! The whole lot of 50s cameras that I picked up last December were amazing. Wait till you see the one I'm saving for last this month. It makes this look like it came out of the back of a closet.
@@DavidHancock great stuff.
I have all the variants, the bulk filmback, and the battery electric winder. They are well built, beautiful cameras, with an amazing, for the time, set of extras, attachments, and lenses available.
Thanks for the review, and exposure that these fine, almost forgotten, cameras deserve!
Thank you and very nice! That's a heck of a great collection.
Nice to hear some praise for the early East German camera industry - usually it's all "commie cameras were garbage", but I find this piece of history fascinating, they invented a lot and, afaik, also blessed us with the M42 thread (correct me if I'm wrong, but I think they were before Pentax and Pentax adopted it). And I still think Prakticas are some of the best/cheapest/most reliable beginner cameras in times when K1000s are not that affordable on ebay anymore. Sure, in the 70s they lost the innovation race when the whole GDR industry went downhill, but the 70s/80s Prakticas are still good and reliable tools, just 10 years behind the competition.
I totally agree. German cameras were amazing. And I do believe that M42 was originally the Practika mount, later the Pentax mount, because Pentax popularized and because of anti-Russo sentiments in the U.S. at the time.
That is one interesting unique camera, I had heard of a mechanical winder motor, but have never seen one until your video. Thank you for a complete instructional video.
Thank you!
Another interesting camera I hadn't seen before. I think my Werra was made in East Germany,but it's the only one I remember.You might do a video on that in the future.It's very different .
Thank you. I have never gotten my hands on a Werra. Maybe someday, and if I do I will definitely make a video on it.
Just purchase one of these in a camera shop in London. (Without Moto) but I have to ask what is the - K colour, T colour and numbers mean? I’m assuming it’s to do with setting the iso. I’m using a cheap tool for Kodak 200 colour so my logic is to set it on K - colour, being Kodak for K and colour of the the film 😂 could be completely wrong!
Nice find! K refers to Kelvin and T to Tungsten. Kelvin would be daylight-balanced color film and Tungsten would be for use with indoor Tungsten light. Neither of those is very important with today's film stocks and scanning technology.
@@DavidHancock for £15 believe it or not! And thanks for your the quick reply that’s very handy to know! 🤘🏼
what is the name of the bayonet?
To the best of my knowledge, it's just called the Praktina Mount or Praktina Bayonet.
Where do you find these cameras? Evan thought I'll never use or evan have one it is great that you show them, thanks.
Every camera this month, less the Retina and Spartus, came from a police auction in December. I have to imagine they were all owned by the same person, but no idea how they ended up at auction. As for other cameras throughout the year, estate and yard sales, thrift and antique stores, online, and subscribers who lend or gift me cameras they can't use or would like to see in the channel (most recently, the Mamiya 645 was loaned by a subscriber.)
@@DavidHancock Thanks for your response. I thought my OM4 was primitive compared to todays cameras. I do likea the clock work winder. I once had a Minolta that literally ripped through film and sort of flash sinked above the prescribed setting with some of the film exposed. 35mm was frustrating and fun in those days. I marvel at today's say Canon EOS R5 and wonder what your review of it will be like in twenty years. That's if you can find one at an in the future boot sale, or whatever they will be traveling with?
@@petervanorsouw2858 Thank you! I'm interested in reviewing the EOS R series sooner than that. I heard they have one in the works that's a 4x5 portrait-orientation camera. If so, I might pick that one up to review at some point in the near future. The R series as a whole looks like a set of really great cameras; I'm just not a fan of the EOS interface. Next month I'll be releasing some more DSLR manuals, though, and that should be fun.
@@DavidHancock That review of the EOS R will be something that I will definitely be anticipating. It may give new life to Olympus zuiko lenses. The Interface issue will also be of great interest. Thank you again for your great work on photographery.
I doubt about this camera being ahead of the time for twenty years. Nikon F killed competition in pro sector for several decades.
Yes, it was the most advanced reflex camera, by far, up until Nikon F hit the market in 1959. The Praktina IIA then vanished from the market in 1960, without being a commercial success. But remember KW, the producer, was situated in the bad side of the iron curtain. The genius chief designer of the Praktina system, Sigfried Böhm, then reused many characteristics of the praktina system into the praktisix (later Pentacon six) medium format camera. They have very similar lens mounts arrangements for example.
@@ravajaxe Yeah. There was also Zunow SLR in 1958. Also it seems point of copying from Praktina is correct. Images of Nikon F prototype shows additional optical viewfinder like one on Praktina.
@@stanislavnepochatov8381 Nikon , the whole company is based on copying german designs and looting german patents, with the help of allied post war politics.
@@mjoelnir58 Disagree. Nikon also advanced german concepts a lot. See soviet photoindustry as example of shameless copying and looting. Some of the cameras were produced from german parts.
Yes, for sure. The F was comparable. So were the Canon F-1, Pentax LX, and to a much lesser extent the Miranda Sensorex. But here is my point:
KW Praktina FX: 1953
Nikon F: 1959, but really the early 1960s before it was very popular and became part of mainstream thought in any way.
Miranda Sensorex: 1966
Canon F-1: 1971
Pentax LX: 1980
So Nikon were at least seven years behind KW, Miranda 13, Canon 18, and Pentax 27.
Does that help clarify what I was saying?