Ihagee EXA Ia

[iangreenhalgh1]

Beautiful little SLR. Extremely well made, ergonomically very nice, looks like an odd shape but actually fits in the hands perfectly. Only has four shutter speeds - 1/20, 1/60, 1/125, 1/175. The shutter is unusual, I expected a cloth focal plane like the EXA 500 I have, but it has a strange shutter based on the mirror mechanism.

I've put my trusty Tessar 2.8/50 on it and loaded it with Fomapan 100, fingers crossed the weather is nice tomorrow and I can test this lovely camera.


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[iangreenhalgh1]

Well it works:

http://forum.mflenses.com/viewtopic,p,1235985.html#1235985

[Attila]

Congrats! Usually they are works I had a few all did work well.

[iangreenhalgh1]

Cheers, seems like a simple camera mechanically but also very well built, it has a quality feeling to it.

[luisalegria]

Cute indeed.
And they seem like they should be quite durable, and easy to fix.
I have been trying to get one for a while.

Operationally it is limited -
No big fast lenses on these, opened up in daylight.
No action photography - kids, dogs, birds, sports, dancing - all right out.

[iangreenhalgh1]

Yes, pretty limited camera, hard to justify using it when I have so many better ones, but a cute little one to experience at least once.

I had the same experience with my Praktica FX2 - great fun to shoot once, but not one I have bothered to shoot a second time.