Cameras made in Germany (West or East)
This is a Wenk Wenka II, a 35mm rangefinder camera made by Gebrüder Wenk in Nuremberg, West Germany between the years 1951 and 1952. The Wenka was the only camera made by Wenk before they stopped making cameras. At least four versions of the Wenka were produced, the Model II…
This is a Welta Belmira, a 35mm rangefinder camera produced by VEB Welta-Kamera-Werk between the years 1956 and 1961. Although credited as a Welta camera, the Belmira was originally designed by Belca-Werk in Dresden, Germany as early as 1951, but didn’t get released until five years later. The Belmira was…
This is a Leica Model B, a 35mm camera made by Ernst Leitz GmbH of Wetzlar, Germany between the years 1926 and 1941. The Leica Model B was the second model in the Leica series and is the only Leica camera ever made which uses a Compur leaf shutter. Two…
This is a Neubert Neuca, a 35mm rangefinder camera made by Feinmechanischen Werkstätten Franz Robert Neubert (Neubert for short) in 1946 in Jena, Germany, which was then known as the ‘Soviet Occupation Zone in Germany’. The Neuca was an attempt to build a lower cost Leica style camera with a…
This is an AGFA Selectronic S, a 35mm rangefinder camera made by Agfa-Gevaert AG in München, West Germany between the years 1970 and 1976. The Selectronic S was the company’s top of the line rangefinder camera featuring aperture priority automatic exposure, an electronic shutter with a huge range of continuously…
This is a Favor II, a scale focus viewfinder camera produced by Dr. Wöhler Saar in Saarland, West Germany between the years 1950 and 1957. The Favor II is a slight update to the original Favor from 1949 adding an improved shutter and one of two different f/2.8 lenses. The…
This is a Kalimar Regula Reflex 2000 CTL, a 35mm Single Lens Reflex camera produced by Regula-Werk King KG in Bad Liebenzell, West Germany around the year 1970. This version of the camera was sold in the United States by Kalimar out of St. Louis, Missouri but was also sold…
This is an Akarex III, a 35mm rangefinder camera made by Apparate und Kamerabau GmbH in Friedrichshafen, West Germany between the years 1953 and 1958. The Akarex III was a premium interchangeable lens rangefinder camera sold alongside the company’s Akarette/Akarelle cameras, but with one pretty major difference. The Akarex III…
This is a Super Pontura, a folding medium format rangefinder camera produced by Balda-Werk Dresden in Dresden, Germany between the years 1938 and 1939. The Super Pontura was a top of the line camera with features like a coupled split image rangefinder with automatic parallax correction, a top plate shutter…
This is a Praktica BC3 electronic, a 35mm SLR camera made by VEB Pentacon Dresden in Dresden, East Germany between the years 1987 and 1988. It used the Praktica Bayonet mount, which was an all new bayonet mount used by B-series Prakticas in the 1980s and 1990s and had a…
This is a Zeiss-Ikon Contaflex, a 35mm Twin Lens Reflex camera produced by Zeiss-Ikon AG Dresden between the years 1935 and 1940 in Dresden, Germany. The Contaflex TLR is one of only a few TLR style cameras designed for 35mm film and the only one that supports interchangeable lenses. It…
This is a Rollei magic II, a twin lens reflex camera made by Rollei-Werke Franke & Heidecke in Braunschweig, West Germany between the years 1962 and 1968. The Rollei magic series was part of the successful lineup of Rolleiflex TLRs but with the addition of automatic exposure. The Rollei magic…
