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VEB Pentacon · Pentacon GmbH
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Pentacon is a camera manufacturer in Dresden (Germany). The name Pentacon
is derived from the brand name Contax
(of Zeiss Ikon Kamerawerke in Dresden) and
the word Pentagon, after the Pentaprism used in
Single-Lens Reflex (SLR) camera's, that was first developed in Dresden.
The company is best known for its
affordable SLR cameras of the Praktica-series in the 1970s [1].
During the Cold War,
Dresden was part of communist East-Germany (DDR) and
Pentacon was a so-called Volkseigener Betrieb - a publicly owned company.
Apart from consumer SLR camera's, and (semi)professional products,
Pentacon also developed special camera's and other
equipment for the repressive security service of the DDR —
Ministerium für Staatssicherheit
(MfS), or Stasi.
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