Hey! Here I'm shooting and reviewing a Praktica Super TL1000 – a bog-standard "run-of-the-mill" Praktica SLR camera! But, as it sometimes happens with those simple things ... it really grows on me! So watch this video to find out why!

These L series Prakticas were made between 1969 and 1989. There are a million different variants and brand names ... but they all share the internals and their unmistakable, simple, boxy design!

0:00 Intro
0:56 Camera operation
1:44 Loading film
2:51 Shooting & a few samples
3:21 About the great Eastern German camera industry
4:09 About the Praktica L series
6:02 More shooting & samples
6:40 Why Prakticas are practical used buys
8:21 Gerard Eijsbouts' old Dutch photo store – where this camera was sold when new
9:49 Why Prakticas are nice shooters
11:27 Channel news and outro

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This camera was originally sold in the early 1980s in Aalsmeer in the Netherlands by a photo store that was run by Gerard Eijsbouts, who passed away a couple of years ago: "The photographer who didn't want to be a photographer"! He and his store were well renown and loved in his town! If you can read Dutch (or use Google / Deepl etc.) ... then I recommend you to read more about this at Aalsmeer Vandaag:
https://aalsmeervandaag.nl/tag/gerard...

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Many thanks for Takahiro Oda for filming! Visit his channel here:
   / @takahirooda  

Many thanks to Flints Auctions for giving me permission to use one of their great product photos in my video:
https://www.flintsauctions.com

Here's where I develop my film:
http://www.kontrastlab.de​
(This is no affiliate link or anything like that. I'm just very happy there's still a dedicated analog development & printing service in Cologne!)

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My photo & camera gear blog:
https://tomscameras.wordpress.com​

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I bought this camera in September 2020 in Tilburg / the Netherlands at the big thrift + concept store "Velerlei":
https://www.velerlei.nl

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Score:
Rocking Chair - Unicorn Heads
Gypsy Stroll - Aaron Lieberman
(Both available at the YouTube audio library)