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Praktisix 2nd version
Praktisix II
Hanimex Praktica 66
Pentacon Six TL 2nd variation

Pentacon Six Medium Size Single-Lens Reflex Cameras

Production period: 1956 to 1992

Number of Models: 7 

Number of produced items: 

Praktisix (1956 to 1966) approx. 28,000

Pentacon Six (1966 to 1990): 207,000

1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975
4461 3500 9100 10000 11558 12547 9993 8500 9500 11198
                   
1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985
12500 12500 12700 12774 11600 6705 6554 7018 7000 6000
                   
1986 1987 1988 1989 1990          
5780 4590 3740 4479 3100          

responsible constructor: Siegfried Böhm

 

The Praktisix was presented at first at the Photokina 1956. The serial production has been started in 1957 at Kamerawerke Dresden-Niedersedlitz.

bulletPraktisix - 1. generation:    1957
bulletPraktisix - 2. generation:    1959
bulletPraktisix II : 1964
bulletPraktisix II A: 1966
bulletPentacon Six: 1966
bulletPentacon Six TL - 1.variation: 1968
bulletPentacon Six TL - 2.variation: 1968
bulletHanimex Praktica 66: (version for Hanner Ex- and Import of Australia)
bulletPentacon Six TLs: 1984 (rare version especially made for making pictures for ID cards, image size 4x4,5cm, version for Tschechoslovakia)

The cameras has a film format at 6x6 (2.25x2.25in) and a 120 film size. The typical standard lens was the Biometar 2.8/80 with the typical Praktisix Bayonet mount (=Pentacon Six mount or P6-mount).

More information's you can found at Pages from Nathan Dayton. 

 

 

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