This has secured their market position, with nearly all of their previous medium format camera competition going through sale ( Mamiya ), closure ( Contax, Bronica, Exakta 66, Kiev ), or greatly reduced market presence ( Rollei, Pentax ( which was also sold, to Hoya )), and other medium format digital back makers being faced with accordingly restricted markets.

The Exakta is a pioneer brand camera produced by the Ihagee Kamerawerk in Dresden, Germany, founded as the Industrie und Handels-Gesellschaft mbH, in 1912.

* First single-lens reflex camera ( SLR ) for 127 roll film ( VP Exakta ) came in 1933.

Most later Exakta lenses, known either as " automatic " or " semi-automatic " lenses, included a button in an extension that would align over the camera body's shutter release when the lens was mounted.

Because of this lack of backwards compatibility the RTL series is generally not regarded as part of Ihagee's Exakta line ; most collectors consider the VX1000 the last " official " Exakta camera.

* An Exakta camera was used by the main character ( who was a photographer ) in the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock film Rear Window.

* An Exakta camera is seen being used by the spy / minder Masahiko Amakasu ( Ryuichi Sakamoto ) during the enthronement of Puyi as emperor of Manchuko in the 1987 film The Last Emperor.

The camera seen however is out-of-date: the enthronement scene is set in the late 1930s ; the Exakta camera in it is a VXIIa from the 1960s-the camera's logo is the ' new ' block letter all-caps style and not the original beautiful cursive logo.

* An Exakta camera was used by the main character in the 2011 Oscar-nominated movie Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.

The first camera to implement a flash synchronizer was the Exakta, in 1935.

There was great respect for the engineering innovation that came out of Dresden — before the war the world's first 35 mm single-lens reflex camera, the Kine Exakta, and the first miniature camera with good picture quality were developed there.

The new camera, called the " Sport ", was introduced at about the same time as the Ihagee Kine Exakta in 1936.

Its best-known product was the Exakta single-lens reflex camera.

Ihagee's most successful camera by far was the Exakta, which was produced between 1933 and 1976.

In 1966 the company marketed its own camera, the Exakta real, without much success.

Additional Exakta models, all with waist-level finders, were produced up to and during World War II.

The format was mainly used for amateur cameras like the Brownie, with the Exakta SLR, the “ Baby ” Rolleiflex, the Yashica 44 TLR, the Komaflex-S SLR and the Primo jr as possible exceptions.

* 1936: The first 35 mm SLR with bayonet mounted interchangeable lenses, the Kine Exakta.

* 1950: The first SLR with interchangeable viewfinders and focusing screens, the Exakta Varex.

Early Kine Exaktas had a fixed waist-level viewfinder, but later models, starting with the Exakta Varex, had an interchangeable waist-or eye-level finder.

In the early 1970s the Exakta " RTL 1000 " was introduced ; it accepted the older models ' lenses but had its own range of viewfinders, which included a model with through-the-lens light metering.

This company is not related to the Dutchman Johan Steenbergen, the founder / owner of Ihagee, or with the Exakta, which was discontinued in the 1970s.

Again, the Exakta seen, a V or VX ( or Varex ) with an eyelevel finder, is anachronistic.

* Canon EOS Technoclopedia: Exakta AF Lenses for Canon EF-a lens chart with technical data and comments

The series began in 1933 with the Standard, or VP, Exakta, which used 127 rollfilm.

The last Exakta model, the RTL 1000, was a cooperative effort with Pentacon.

* Exakta Varex ( the first SLR with interchangeable view-finders )

Roll film VP Exakta

* First SLR for 35mm film came in 1936, the Kine Exakta.

* An Exakta is also seen in " The Public Eye " ( 1992 starred Joe Pesci and Barbara Hershey ), a Weegee inspired film about a police news photographer, set in the 1940s.

K. Nüchterlein's Kine Exakta ( Germany, 1936 ) was the first integrated 35mm SLR to enter the market.

The knife was omitted in the Exakta VX500, one of the last " official " Exakta cameras.

* Due to legal restrictions, the name " Varex " was not permitted to adorn Exakta cameras built to be shipped to the United States of America.

This was followed in 1936 by the popular 35mm Kine Exakta.

After Steenbergen's death in 1967, Ihagee West ordered and sold the Exakta TwinTL, which was built by Cosina.

Ihagee in Dresden was very successful in the development and sales of the Exakta SLR.

The Beseler Topcon line of 35mm cameras used the same lens mount as the Exakta.

* 1936 – Introduction by IHAGEE of the Ihagee Kine Exakta 1, the first 35mm.

* Start SLR Soviet Exakta Copy by Stephen Rothery

Currently Praktica is the only brand sold by the company ; previous ones included Zeiss Ikon, Contax ( now owned by the Carl Zeiss company ), Exakta, Pentacon and many more.

The spelling found on cameras has traditionally been Exakta, but some early Kine-Exaktas were marked Exacta specifically for marketing in France, Portugal and the U. S., perhaps for copyright reasons ; and certainly a great number of American collectors refer to the whole range as the " Exacta.