Praktica LTL3

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Praktica-LTL-3 with a screwed-on lens

The Praktica LTL 3 is a single-lens reflex camera that was produced by the Dresden-based company Pentacon , at that time still under Kombinat VEB Pentacon Dresden. It is a successor to the Praktica LTL and was produced from November 1975 to March 1978 in a number of 349,919 copies.

Furnishing

  • Steel lamella shutter with exposure times from 1/1000 s to 1 s, in addition a bulb setting for manual setting of the exposure time and a flash setting (synchronization time 1/125 s)
  • optical viewfinder ( pentaprism with Fresnel lens )
  • Micro prism grid and ground glass ring field for manual focusing
  • integral exposure metering, display via a pointer in the viewfinder, power supply via PX 625 button battery in the bottom of the camera. Since the camera has a bridge circuit, 1.5 V batteries can also be used.
  • Flash plug-in shoe with center contact
  • Lens connection M42 × 1 thread
  • mechanical self-timer with a shutter release delay of approx. 8 seconds
  • Dip button separate from shutter release button
  • Tripod connection
  • adjustable ASA film speed from 12 to 1600
  • Image counter on the top of the device (resets automatically when the rear panel is opened)

Web links

Commons : Praktica LTL3  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.praktica-collector.de/189_Praktica_LTL3.htm Praktica LTL3 at Practica-Collector
  2. http://www.cameramanuals.org/praktica_pdf/praktica_ltl3.pdf scanned operating instructions for the Praktica LTL3