Part five of the documentary "The Cameras of the GDR and the Development of the SLR". To watch the entire documentary, here is a link to the playlist: • The Cameras of the GDR... .
In this particular video we continue our story about the camera monopoly that formed in the 1920's and follow it through to the end of the camera industry in West Germany in 1972. We look at the begining of 35mm film with the Leica and the Contax rangefinder cameras. We see how all cameras in the West become the same and not up to date with the latest developments, based on the Compur Shutter Monopoly, how Voigtlander was prevented from saving the industry by the leading monopolist company, Zeiss, and how Zeiss final offering failed, too late in the day and no loger what the public wants. In the end, the East German camera industry dominates to market for quality and inexpensive SKLR cameras based on the M42 screw mount.
The entire series follows the progress from the Origin in Jena, the Exakta and Praktiflex cameras, made in Dresden before WW2, through the development of the Contax S by Zeiss Ikon Jena and Dresden, and the Praktina in Dresden, how this became the Pentacon and later the Praktica of Kamera Werk Niedersedlitz (Dresden), or KW. How the various makers of lenses and cameras were consolidated at Dresden and Jena into one company, including the famous lens maker Meyer-Optik Gorlitz.
This and much more, including the movement of the intellectual property and machinery from the GDR (German Democratic Republic) to West Germany, Russia, Ukraine and Japan, with the involvement of the US Internationalists. It is an inter esting journey over 20 or so video parts, a Super Documentary, made during the winter of 2022/23 in Bromyard, UK.
Music by Lightnin' Papa Abe Ram and the Small Stones.
I hope you enjoy the videos.
Adam of Bremen-Krubally,
November 2022.
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