reluctance to advance
Not much was expected of this Contax III. Slipping sprocket gear, overlapping frames, shutter doesn't open on certain speeds. Still takes pictures though, after more than 80 years; an interesting piece of history. The Contax rangefinder was the first camera to combine a viewfinder and rangefinder in one window. They also had the fastest lenses of their time, a serious competitor to the now more successful Leicas. The lenses and cameras were copied after the war under the Kiev and Jupiter names.
reluctance to advance
Not much was expected of this Contax III. Slipping sprocket gear, overlapping frames, shutter doesn't open on certain speeds. Still takes pictures though, after more than 80 years; an interesting piece of history. The Contax rangefinder was the first camera to combine a viewfinder and rangefinder in one window. They also had the fastest lenses of their time, a serious competitor to the now more successful Leicas. The lenses and cameras were copied after the war under the Kiev and Jupiter names.