Praktica is a brand of
camera manufactured by
Pentacon in
Dresden in eastern
Germany, formerly within the
GDR prior to
German reunification in 1990. Pentacon is the modern-day successor to Dresden camera firms such as
Zeiss Ikon; for many years Dresden was the world's largest producer of cameras. 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.