(+) Easy to use with lot's of 'pro' options - great battery life - value for money. (-) Mono sound only on video - no hand grip - on board memory small.
Advantages: Very solid construction, excellent quality Zeiss lenses, excellent value Disadvantages: It is fiddly to load the film, no TTL flash metering or DX film sensing
...I have used Prakticas for about 16 years now, and they are wonderful cameras. Seek one out in your local camera shop.
A drawback with the more "modern" Praktica cameras is their obscure bayonet lenses. These are fantastic quality lenses and are exceptionally good value for money, but are hard to find. The B series cameras are similarly great, but are scarce.
A short history of Praktica:
Before the break up of Germany into East and West - the Carl Zeiss factory made some of the best cameras in the world. They are still doing so under the Contax name - check out how expensive Contax cameras are! In the East, the cameras were called Praktica, and they are just as good but a fraction of the price.
This camera has no add ons - just centre-weighted metering and it is completely manual. It is also fairly heavy and chunky - but feels good...
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Advantages: Easy to use with lot's of 'pro' options - great battery life - value for money. Disadvantages: Mono sound only on video - no hand grip - on board memory small.
...Beautiful classic Praktica photos - by that i mean realistic, not enhanced colours that i had found in my previous (still own 3.2 mega pixel) Sony Cybershot.
Don't get me wrong i was more than happy with Sony's digital representation of the world around us and was often complimented on shots taken - but after using the Praktica and comparing photo's in iPhoto on an Apple G5, the Sony's had a colour saturation that is generally available as a 'touch-up' on photo software.
Choice of exposure and focal points give you an edge and these are represented as 'templates' for the inexperienced - lot's of other little options - including 'Pictbridge' make this camera a step up from the wannabe's.
A lot of camera for the money.
My only gripe is the front hand grip - there isn't one!!...
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1 / Poor picture quality even in bright sunlight ,Just about
OK .
2 / In well lit rooms picture extremely dark and grainy.
3 / Impossible to see subjects on screen even in not to dark locations
therefore have to guess where people are to... more
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28.11.2004
04.02.2005
