Praktica's 1990s focus-free Sport compact — 35mm f/4.5 lens, auto flash, motorised advance and rewind.
The Praktica Sport Royale was a 35mm lens-shutter compact from the 1990s Praktica Sport range of budget automatic cameras. Like its SK and SP series stablemates it was a badge-engineered point-and-shoot aimed at first-time film users, sold widely through European catalogue and high-street retailers.
It carries a focus-free 35mm f/4.5 lens suited to both casual portraits and general scenes, a built-in automatic flash, and a motor that advances and rewinds the film automatically. Controls amount to a shutter button on top and an on/off switch on the front. Shutter and exposure details beyond automatic operation are not published in the sources consulted and are omitted.
It suits beginners and anyone after a pocketable holiday camera that needs no settings at all. The 35mm focal length is a comfortable general-purpose view, and fixed focus keeps mid-distance subjects sharp in good light; close-ups inside two metres or so and dim scenes past flash range are where results fall away.
As a battery-dependent motorised compact it must power up to fire, so test wind, rewind and flash charge on fresh cells. Corroded battery contacts are the most common fault on these cheaply stored cameras; also check the film door seals and confirm the flash actually discharges rather than just showing a ready lamp.