Exakta

The Exakta (sometimes Exacta) was a camera produced by the Ihagee Kamerawerk in Dresden, Germany, founded as the Industrie und Handels-Gesellschaft mbH, in 1912.

An Exakta VX was used by James Stewart's character, a professional photographer, to spy on his possibly murderous neighbor in Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window.

Most controls, including the shutter release and the film wind lever, are on the left-hand side, unlike many other cameras.

[2] This is quite similar to the Praktica design (that adapted it from Ihagee's product), the shutter-release of which was located on the right-hand side of the camera-body front.

After an economic collapse following Germany's reunification, the successor of the firm (Pentacon, which subsumed Ihagee) is now back in business.