25 April, 2025
Contax G1 – A thing of Beauty…
Back in 1932, following on from Leitz’s success with the Leica, Carl Zeiss introduced a competing interchangeable lens rangefinder: this was the Contax. Unlike the Leica, ...
10 March, 2025
Contax G2 – The Most Advanced Rangefinder
Following a reasonably painful wrist injury in early 2024, compounded by three of my film Leica M’s being away for repair, I have been using a Contax G2 as my primary came...
21 July, 2023
Contax G2 – The Finest Camera Ever to See my Minds Eye
Back in 2005 I had just started getting back into shooting Film and had bought a Minolta Dynax 5 to accompany my Konica Minolta 7D DSLR.
What I then wanted was a Leica – almost ...
10 October, 2022
CONTAX T – The 1st One – A Compact, Manually-Focused Rangefinder
The Contax T is a compact rangefinder introduced in 1984. It was the first in what would become a line of premium point-and-shoot cameras, a segment pioneered by Contax. It was ...
“I loved owning one for two weeks until every photo came back out of focus.” This was a comment from a popular YouTuber under another popular YouTuber’s review of the Contax G1 ...
4 July, 2019
Contax TVS – Mini Review – By Lukas Walter
When my girlfriend and I made the decision to visit Japan a year ago, I had just got back into film photography after a long hiatus and I knew I had to find the perfect travel c...
23 September, 2018
Contax TVSiii Review (vs. the TVSii) – A One Roll Review
The Contax TVSiii is the third and last in the range of “TVS” 35mm zoom cameras from Contax. You would think that being the last, it would be the best. Some people say it is, bu...
26 August, 2018
Contax TVSii – a review with a few comparisons to the T2
The Contax TVSii is the 2nd of 3 zoom lens cameras in the Contax T range - the TVS came before, and the TVSiii followed. Though quite similar in appearance to the fixed focal le...