Krystian Kozerawski Photoblog

This is the oldest camera in my collection. It is at least 50 years old and it is older than me. I inherited it after my grand mother. It is a low cost popular, very simple slr camera made by the famous camera manufacturer company Ihagee from Dresden - the company that constructed first available SLR camera in 1936 (named Exacta). Exa is the cheapest and very simple sister of Exacta, though its look and design is the same quality as the bigger Exacta. The Exa model 0 (the one I got) was manufactured from 1952 till early nineteen sixties. The construction is very simple, reflex does not return automatically to the position, until you wind the film and springs. The simple hooded prism finder (so called waist-level finder, you have to look through it from the top, and the image is inverted in the horizontal plane) is the independent element that can be replaced. The shutter is circular and shutter speeds are limited to a range of 1/30 to 1/150 plus B. Kit lens is 1.9/58 Primoplan (1950) by Meyer Optik from Görlitz (town on the German/Polish border) is as simple as possible limited to 3 elements. More information about Exa and Exacta cameras by Ihagee: http://www.wrotniak.net/photo/exakta/exa-gallery.html.

Here are some shots of my Exa, that I took using my Samsung GX 10 with Schneider-Kreuznach kit lens (usage of photos reserved, see disclaimer).