We hebben de camera uitgebreid getest (met film) en laten nakijken door een fotovakspecialist en alles werkt zoals je van een dergelijke camera mag verwachten. De camera is in goede conditie.
Er is gelukkig bijzonder veel informatie op het goede oude interweb te vinden over deze camera. Wij hebben er in ieder geval een handleiding bij gevonden, welke je er bij krijgt.
Een algemeen stukje omschrijving (in het Engels) vind je hieronder.
Informatie van elders:
The Pentacon Six is a single-lens reflex (SLR) medium format camera system made by Pentacon from 1956 to 1992. The Six accepts lenses with the Pentacon Six mount, a breech-lock bayonet mount.
In 1959 Kamera Werkstätten became VEB Kamera and KinoWerke Dresden. In 1964 they became VEB Pentacon and in 1970, Kombinat VEB Pentacon. With the unification of the East German photographic industry the Praktisix was modified to become the Pentacon Six. Frame spacing was improved through the use of a roller with teeth that is turned by the film as it advances; when the correct length of film has advanced, the mechanism disengages.
When the TTL-metered prism was introduced, the letters 'TL' were added to the name plate but no other changes were made to the camera body.
The Pentacon Six was imported into the U.S. as the Hanimex Praktica 66 by Australian distributor Hanimex. This was to get around U.S. laws prohibiting direct imports from communist countries.
The Pentacon Six TLs is a version modified to shoot 4×4.5 cm frames for photo IDs.
The Praktisix and Pentacon Six comes with a simple waist-level finder with a flip-up cover. A non-metered prism was available for the Pentacon Six, with a TTL-metered prism produced later.
A third-party adaptor allows the metered prism from the Kiev 60 (which is based externally on the Pentacon Six) to be attached to most Pentacon Sixes and Exakta 66's. It is brighter, shows more of the view, and is available new. The same adaptor also allows the Kiev 60 waist-level finder to be used. This finder is reportedly inspired by the one found on Rolleiflex TLR cameras and is also better than the original Pentacon finder.
