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Pentacon
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Pentacon is the company name of a camera manufacturer in Dresden, Germany.
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Industry | Imaging |
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Founded | Dresden, Germany 1964; 60 years ago (1964) |
Headquarters | Dresden, Germany |
Products | cameras and other optical equipment |
Website | http://pentacon.de |
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The name Pentacon is derived from the brand Contax of Zeiss Ikon Kamerawerke in Dresden and Pentagon, as a Pentaprism for Single-Lens Reflex (SLR) cameras was for the first time developed in Dresden. The cross section of this prism has a pentagonal shape. Pentacon is best known for producing the SLR cameras of the Praktica-series as well as the medium format camera Pentacon Six, the Pentacon Super and various cameras of the Exa series.
Pentacon also produced slide projectors.