Keh contax 645
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#Keh contax 645 series
The Hasselblad H series did not come about until 4 years after the Contax appeared. Better than many lenses made by other manufacturers and even better than many lenses Zeiss made for Rollei and Hasselblad. In reaction to the success of the Contax and the Mamiya 645 AF (not the ZD or DF - the 'digital' Mamiya only arrived much later, after the Contax had already gone.) By the time the H Series came of age, Kyocrea had already stopped making cameras.I don't know much about the Contax 645, but what i do know is that it is a first class camera with a series of really excellent lenses. Other reviewers copied that, and the Contax started out getting bad reviews.The Hasselblad H series did not come about until 4 years after the Contax appeared.
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The thing behind the rumour probably was that before starting to use it seriously, one reviewer played with it a lot, and not aware of that he emptied the batteries himself gave it a bad review. Maybe that decision was helped along a bit by Zeiss working with other makers besides Kyocera to make Zeiss labeled cameras.The Contax 645 had a bit of a bad start too, with the rumour doing the rounds that it consumed batteries at a more than alarming rate. What obviously did not help the Contax also was Kyocera's decision, not based on the success or lack thereof of the Contax 645, to stop building cameras.
#Keh contax 645 manual
I think that where the Contax struggled a bit versus its rivals was that 1) the Hasselblad H series had leaf shutters, which many photographers insist on for their work 2) the Mamiya 645AFD and its lenses were less expensive, and Mamiya had a vast and affordable ecosystem already in situ with manual focus M645 lenses and accessories, while the Contax came on the scene from scratch with a limited and expensive lens range. Nevertheless, the Contax interface is still supported by vendors like Phase One in their latest digital backs, and there are still many people shooting it digitally including leading professionals in advertising, etc. It was one of the first bodies to communicate internally with digital backs, albeit that communication was one-way (camera to body), while its rivals and contemporaries the Mamiya 645AFD and Hasselblad H1 had two-way communication which enabled remote computer control and tighter integration of metadata. The Contax 645AF was an excellent and elegant design, and with its Zeiss lenses, it seems to have had particular appeal in places like Japan.