travel to the past - Contax website

It's an absolute shame that the Contax N Digital program didn't take off. A digital back for their RTSIII would have been nice as well 🙁
 
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I don't know, if this is the regular Contax web presentation, but I had a nice travel to the past, when looking for some info on the Contax N digital DSLR.

http://www.contaxcameras.co.uk/gseries/gseries.asp

You can find the presentation on some from todays view quite interesting Japanese digital and film cameras.

I have quite a bit of Contax equipment, which I still love. I've visited that site many times, some good info still up.
 
How neat! I love the g-series cameras. Amazing little things.

What's the deal with the contax N? Can the lenses be adapted to Nikon F or is the flange distance on the contax lens too short?
 
Contax N-lenses can be converted for Canon EOS, but with high price tag.

I know zooms are not very popular here, but 24-85 seems very interesting lens.
 
What's the deal with the contax N? Can the lenses be adapted to Nikon F or is the flange distance on the contax lens too short?

I doubt N to Nikon is possible. or, possible with compromises, ie. loss of autofocus and some additional optical elements in adapter etc.. someone who knows better may comment is it possible at all 😕
 
I have quite a bit of Contax equipment, which I still love. I've visited that site many times, some good info still up.

Actually your post about sellers remorse got my attention to the Contax N ;-)

It looks like an interesting body to use. I will make sure, I try one, when I see one - I might have seen a few film bodies lately in the shops.

Unfortunately, shuffling through the available Zeiss lenses on the vintage site did not produce much interest as of focal lengths and speed.

I have Nikon and Leica stuff, which I use and feel as too much already, but surely would like to try a Contax N digital with a 35 f1.4 prime ;-)
I suppose, the super wides (15 and 16mm ) are unobtainable these days?
I will investigate the N Digital just out of curiosity.

The G series indeed looks like the high tech improved modern Leica.
A shame, it has been stopped - really too bad :-(
I never used one, many times thought about buying one though.
The went about the same as my first Leica back then (a M6 classic) - I could as well have ended up with a G2 and never gotten by the Leica ;-)

I love that this site is still up - nowadays, big sites are changed weekly with old stuff quickly removed and eventually put into some "historic" mini page.
It's funny, how the whole Contax UK site looks a bit tacky ;-) Especially the N Digital pages look like someone quickly scribbled a word document with specs listed together and got it online with two low res pictures as N Digital web presentation.

If the rest of Contax' marketing for the N Digital was only slightly similar, I understand, how it came, the 35mm Contax went down.
 
There was a Contax digital in the KEH catalog for a "mere $2200" for a 6MPixel full-frame camera. It used an earlier version of the CMOS sensor used in the Kodak DCS14 series. Lots of noise, as i recall- very short-lived. ISO 80? I forget.

I suspect KEH hopes a collector will pick it up.
 
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