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OT - Contax AX - was - RE: [Digital BW] You lost me... was: From the horses mouth.

2002-01-31 by Austin Franklin

> That was shown by the mess of the focus-plane AF camera the Contax AX.

Derek,

Why do you say mess?  The AX is a phenomenal camera!  I use it as my primary
35mm SLR right now, and find it absolutely fantastic.  I can use all my very
expensive, very exceptional Zeiss glass (that I bought for my RTS III, which
I still have and use), and it has even some interesting features...like the
10mm built-in extension for pseudo-macro photography.  If you've never used
one, please don't call it a "mess", it doesn't deserve that.  It is truly a
revolutionary camera.

The AX has only two downsides in my book, one is size, but it is very well
balanced, and the size issue, though I thought it would bother me, doesn't
now...and second, floating element lenses have to be sort of pre-focused.
It also has a phenomenal datA back that records the exposure information
either between the frames, or on the first 2 or three frames of the roll.

Regards,

Austin

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