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That looks like nice example of a fine camera, Mark. Once you master the left-handed shutter release the Exa becomes a very pleasant little camera to use. The Meritar lens sharpens up quite nicely when stopped down to f/8-f/11, and it's quite sought after because of it's interesting bokeh when used at full aperture. I hope you can post some of your work. Thanks for posting a pic of a classic camera!
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I've had some Exactas. Couldn't handle the left handed nature of them and the stop down metering though. And I didn't have good luck with the lenses. However, there are some pretty cool Angeneaux lenses for Exactas which are really beautiful chrome beasts with really good optical designs. Unfortunately everyone knows this so they go for crazy amounts of money.
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It's a basic, but highly serviceable, small camera from the Workers' and Peasants' State. It will take almost all Exakta lenses. Range of shutter speed is a slight limitation, though.

 

That's a nice, clean copy too.

 

It was so popular at one time, that Ihagee (the VEB descendant, anyhow) had to farm out additional production to another East German factory -- the armaments maker Rheinmetall.

 

System Exa - An Exa made by Rheinmetall, not Ihagee

 

There were a number of cute and even cuter later variants :)

Here, an M42 mount Exa from Certo

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I mostly have old Exaktas, but why wouldn't someone have at least a half-dozen or so Exas?:rolleyes:

 

It's hard not to giggle when you hold and shoot one of these cameras.

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Beautiful acquistion. I really loved the embossed editions. Mine is not as pristine as yours, and it has a problem with the shutter/release. At the end of the stroke, the mirror lowering trips the shuitter. If I set it on 25th, and gently advnce..it'S Ok. But there are quite a few nice lenses out there and my Exakta and Exa can share almost all the accessories. I think the waist level finder fits the Varex IIa and the Exa 1a. but not this Exa. I have two Pentaprisms which fit everything. I have 5 Zeiss lenses as well. As Rick mentioned this a fine"little" camera and I tend to shoot the Flektogon almost exclisively with this. The Pancolar is also very nice and due to the mount ..not too hard to find cheap. Please do post results
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That camera was my introduction to SLRs...my HS science teacher showed up one day with one which we hastily attached to our microscopes for some photomicrography work...much easier to ensure focus than a rangefinder and tube. I eventually, years later, bought an Exakta, but never really bonded with it. They are really great looking cameras though...guaranteed to attract the curious.
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