Camera Collection: lhagee Exa 1a

Like the EXA 500 this camera was produced by lhagee (later VEB Pentacon) in Dresden between 1964 and 1977. 

More infos:

• http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Exa_1a
• Manual: http://www.butkus.org/chinon/exa/exa_1a/exa_ia.htm
• Flickr Group: https://www.flickr.com/groups/exa/

Camera Collection: EXA 500

My latest addition to my camera collection. The EXA 500 was build in the former German Democratic Republic (DDR, aka East Germany) from 1968 to 1969. About 100.000 were built. The export version of the same camera was called EXAKTA 500, it got is name from the additional shutterspeed of 1/500, it is using a focal plane shutter. Solid metal handicraft work by lhagee founded back in 1921. The company was taken over by the government owned company VEB Pentacon. More in-deep info at the links in the reference section.

Unfortunately the model I bought does not work any more.

lhagee EX 500

References:

• https://www.cameraquest.com/exa500.htm
• http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Exa_500
• http://www.dresdner-kameras.de/ihagee_exakta/exa/exa.html
• http://www.ihagee.org/
• http://johns-old-cameras.blogspot.ro/2013/06/exa-500.html
• http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentacon and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentacon