The name 'Optineta' is engraved on the front of it in script letters. The raised part of the top housing would house the rangefinder in the Prominent, and takes up most of the free area of the top plate. Notes on Meopta cameras at Novacon state that the camera body was made using dies from the recently-discontinued first model of the Voigtländer Prominent, and it is certainly very similar, though the Prominent is a much better-specified camera, with interchangeable lenses and a coupled rangefinder. It is metal-bodied with khaki-coloured leatherette covering and a plated metal top housing, in which a reverse-galilean viewfinder is set. The Optineta is a viewfinder camera for 35 mm film, with a fixed lens and leaf shutter, made by Meopta in Czechoslovakia from about 1959. Picture by eBayer wepswood ( Image rights)
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