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 ...
15 June, 2021
Contax IIa review – Chasing that Classic Look with an Unaccountably Affordable Vintage German Rangefinder – By Phil Calvit
Like most of you good 35mmc readers, I’d love to own a classic Leica. And like most of you (unless you’re a more posh lot than I’d assumed), I’ve been unwilling to make the life...
20 August, 2016
Contax G2 Review – The Gobi Desert – by Nicholas Koh
I sold off my Leica M6 to fund the purchase of the G2. Why did I switch from the M6, widely considered one of the best film cameras money could buy, to the G2?
23 April, 2016
Contax G2 Review – by Adam Laws
Morning all, I hope this finds you well with a hot beverage and ideally a biscuit nearby (I’m rather partial to a bourbon myself). After speaking with Hamish about a...