(production: November 1975 to March 1978)
A co-worker was kind enough to give me this camera to add to my collection.
it's a bit dirty, and the battery for the light meter needs replacing, but the shutter appears to be in good shape, and it fires nicely.
This thing is built like a tank and feels like it could stop a bullet. They don't make em like they used to, that's for sure!
I have quite a few film cameras now, and although I always mean to being them out and actually run some film through them.. I haven't had much success or actual time. Not to mention the expense of buying the film and processing as I do not yet have that darkroom in the basement I have always dreamed of having. *sigh*
I learned photography on a film slr camera back in college (yes I am that old), so there will always be a soft spot in my heart for film sprockets, red lights, chemicals, enlargers and of course real photo paper. As a child of the late 80's early 90's part of me will forever be pro-analogue.
I will try to post up a few more shots of this beauty, and hopefully (no promises) some actual shots taken with it and it's 50mm f1.8 pentacon lens.
I'll try to feature a few more from my collection as well on here if anyone is interested.
in the meantime, if you want to find out more on this camera look here
http://www.praktica-collector.de/189_Praktica_LTL3.htm
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