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The first Praktica was built in 1949 by the Company "Mechanik Kamera Werkstätten VEB Niedersedlitz" which was founded as "Kamera-Werkstätten Guthe & Thorsch GmbH" 1919 by Benno Thorsch and Paul Guthe in Dresden.

In 1989 the Berlin wall was down; the GDR was no more; and a great name was soon fade into history. The famous Pentacon factory in Dresden was shortly closed and with it, unless something unexpected happens, the end of the Praktica SLR.

The following pages contain some information about the history of the Praktica cameras as well as the history of Pentacon Dresden the company which has designed the Praktica SLR 's for 31 years. At the end of this time, on October 2, 1990, Pentacon Dresden was the largest and famous German camera producer. The market share of Pentacon was at this time 5% in Germany, 12% in France, 24% in United Kingdom and 30% in the Netherlands (Blumtritt).

My collection contains today 324 different cameras such as Praktica cameras as well as their precursors

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I'm interested on all Praktica models as well as Pentacon Six-, Praktiflex-, Contax-SLR-, Praktina-, Pentina, Pentacon Super-cameras which are not included in my collection today.

I'm only a collector and not a seller of Praktica cameras!

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