Ihagee Exakta VX IIa (Exakta Varex IIa)

{"overview":"The Ihagee Exakta VX IIa, sold as the Exakta Varex IIa outside the United States, is a 35mm single-lens reflex camera produced in Dresden in the late 1950s and 1960s. It uses the Exakta bayonet mount and features interchangeable viewfinders, with the waist-level finder and pentaprism being the commonly encountered options. Confirm the interchangeable finder locks correctly, the front-mounted shutter release and film-advance lever operate smoothly, and that any fitted lens couples properly to the Exakta bayonet. Complete kits and collector-grade examples can sell for several hundred pounds or more."},{"q":"Is the Exakta VX IIa the same camera as the Varex IIa?","a":"Yes — 'VX IIa' was the name used in the United States market and 'Varex IIa' the name used elsewhere, but the cameras are the same model from Ihagee Dresden."},{"q":"Does the price depend on which viewfinder is fitted?","a":"Yes. Bodies offered with a clean pentaprism tend to sell at the upper end of the typical range, while waist-level-only examples and rough bodies populate the lower end of recent auction results."}],"confidence":55,"reasoning":"Nine UK auction records give a reasonable price picture, but the spread is wide and pulled by two high Leitz results, so the central-tendency figure is more reliable than the extremes."}

Generated summary, 20 Apr 2026 — not checked by hand; prices on this page come from the sales, not from this text.