4/18/2021 0 Comments Praktica Camera
Originally Pentacon was the export model name for the Contax D, since the use of the name Contax had been prohibited for the East German company VEB Zeiss Ikon.The Kombinat VEB Pentacon was divided in three parts now (VEB Pentacon Dresden, VEB Feinoptisches Werk Grlitz and VEB Kamerafabrik Freital) working as independent companies under the central management in Jena.It was planned together with the incorporation, research and development and technical potential of the former Kombinat VEB Pentacon would be temporarily reduced to 60 by 1986 and these resources would be exclusively devoted to military production; film development machines and laboratory equipment for big laboratories would be produced in expense of the SLR production; SLR production would be reduced to 300 000 per year, export to non-socialist countries would be reduced to 50 of the production (from 77 in 1984), while export to Eastern Block countries and inland deliveries would be raised.
SLR production in Dresden was rapidly decreasing from 1987 on, what was caused by greater amount of labour necessary for assembling cameras of the Praktica B and BX series, as well as by preparations for incoming military production. However, led by West-German business people, the Treuhand simply closed many companies. ![]() ![]() But he waited until after liquidation to buy parts of the company from the Treuhand - thus getting them cheaper, including one of the modern Pentacon buildings which once served for military production. This part of Pentacon, now the new Pentacon GmbH, is still located in Dresden, and included a service office for older cameras, camera production being outsourced to South Korea. The camera and lens brands represented by the new Pentacon were Praktica, Exakta, and Schneider Dresden, the enterprise employing about 150. ![]()
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