Edixa Prismat LTL

[belgiumreporter]

Here's another Edixa i've found for little money, the prismat LTL It's the budget version of the TTL still having TTL metering, auto diafragm and instant return mirror, but lacking the slow speeds below 1/30th unlike the early edixa's (Mat, Flex...) the exchangeable viewfinders were abandoned for the metering through the lens. These were the last Edixa's made before the factory closed down in 1972. There seems to be some hype over Edixa's on youtube, but don't believe everything they say, Edixa's are vulnerable cameras and out of the four i now got only one is working as it should. So don't pay big money for these as they are not worth it, in many cases the lens is more interesting than the camera so the best thing to do is to find one with lens, for the price of the lens and if you're lucky the camera will be OK, if not you've got another M42 lens for the collection 

[John Farrell]

Edixa lenses are slightly different to the Praktica/Pentax M42 - if you screw an Edixa lens onto a Pentax, the index mark is not at the centre top. This can mean, on automatic lenses, that the camera pusher plate misses the stopdown pin. Yashica M42 lenses followed Edixa. The lens to film distance is the same for both Edixa and standard M42.