Flexaret

All models of Flexaret are twin-lens reflex cameras with aluminum body, taking square "6×6" format photographs on a 120 roll film.

In 1939, the company Optikotechna bought a factory producing photographic equipment in Přerov.

The development of a new camera called Flexaret started in the post-World War II years in the Meopta company, founded in 1946.

The camera was intended rather for amateur photography; the handling was easy and technical parameters were simple.

However, the strategy of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance among communist states demanded subordination of national interests to the central planning process dictated by the Soviet Union.