Camera porn – Praktica MTL 5

I got a new camera!

An M42 screw mount camera from the now defunct German Democratic Republic (in general, Democratic Republics are anything but democratic).

*orgasms*
*squirts*

*grins*


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I have a bunch of screw-mount lenses for use of my DSLR, but I’ve always had this little itch for a fully mechanical screw mount camera body. There’s something particularly satisfying from turning knobs and aperture rings, cocking the shutter spring and releasing the shutter through a mechanical linkage.

Praktica cameras have a little oddity – the shutter release button protrudes from the front instead of being mounted on top of the body.



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As with a basic film camera, there are only four fundamental controls: focus, aperture, shutter speed and shutter release. The back view comes across as shockingly minimalist – there is no window to show the film canister’s markings, neither is there a slot to put notes indicating the film type you have loaded. Not to mention the comforting absence of buttons and LCDs heh.



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Now I have a new problem – my camera bag does not have enough space.