Sonnar Dilemma

[Stephanie Brim]

Well, you can send it to me to try on my camera when I get it and then I can send it to Brian if I find a large problem. I just sent the money to the guy who is sending me the camera.

Man, this is the best birthday ever! And I'm celebrating early, too!

 

[Stephanie Brim]

Okay. I should be set now. All I have to do is wait.

Did I mention how much I hate waiting? 😀

 

[darkkavenger]

RFF is the coolest place on the net. 🙂

 

[Stephanie Brim]

T'is.

I have a bad feeling that this is going to give me the Contax bug and I'm going to end up with a IIa, a IIIa and various lenses. At some point, anyway. Having a baby kinda helps with that GAS thing.

 

[varjag]

Start slow.. there isn't that much choice in Contax system anyway 🙂

 

[Stephanie Brim]

I was actually going to pick up a Polaroid land camera a while back because it was one of those with a rangefinder...but then I realized that I couldn't get the film for it anymore and fashioning a film holder for modern stuff is a bit over my head at the moment. There are a couple of OneStep cameras sitting on a shelf where I work, but even those are over what I want to pay for a camera like that right now.

Guess I'll have to stick to the waiting thing.

 

[harry01562]

Waiting isn't all bad, it can heighten the whole experience. A nice 50/1.5 is well worth waiting for, after all. With Brian doing the fixing, it will be a fine lens. He worked on a few of mine, and did a fantastic job.
The Contax is much easier on GAS than most. Leave out the super expensive, and their aren't that many things to hunger after. The sound of the shutter alone is worth the price of admission.

Harry

 

[ferider]

Update: lens was shipped to Brian yesterday, Stephanie.

Roland.

 

[rxmd]

I doubt that it has a 50 (ish) F2.8 on it, unless they went through a lot of trouble. You have to buy an I-61 in LTM, remove the lens module, take a J-8 in Kiev mount, remove its lens module, and then collimate the I-61 into the J-8's Kiev mount.

Or it could have a Zeiss 50/2.8 Tessar. Easier, but more costly. 🙂