[Leica] OT: Contax T

[pmcc_2000 at yahoo.com (PMCC)]

I'd be interested in your reasons for
prefering the T3, besides the availability
of current production.  Does it have a
manual rangefinder and instant shutter
release?  We can take this offline if it's
too OT for this list.

rgds
Peter C.
California USA

--- Jeffery Smith <jls@runbox.com> wrote:

> The lens on the Contax T is very good, but it weighs
> a ton. You could
> probably stand on it. I paid $400 for mine, but it
> was in excellent
> condition. The parts are as scarce as hen's teeth.
> I'd buy a T3 (if that
> is the newest model) if I had it to do all over
> again.
> 
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org]
> On Behalf Of PMCC
> Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 3:34 PM
> To: lug@leica-users.org
> Subject: [Leica] OT: Contax T
> 
> OK LUG brainiacs out there, who knows
> something about the Contax T (not T2, T3
> or T whatever)?
> 
> Intrigued by the piece on Dante's website,
> I decided to check one out at the neighborhood
> camera shop.  Nice looking cosmetics and
> appears (without running and processing a
> test roll) to work.   This one is black.
> 
> Here's the question:  on the inside surface
> of the camera back there are two shallow
> vertical slots in which thin metal rails are
> inset.  One of them has been glued back in,
> the other one is completely missing.  They
> appear to press up against the spring on the
> black of the film pressure plate when the 
> camera is closed. But neither the camera shop 
> guy nor I can figure out the exact function and
> thus don't know if its absence is critical.  No
> body appears to fix these things.  Can anybody
> help?  Also, what would you as a knowledgeable
> Contax T user/fan be willing to pay for one of 
> these, as a pocket take-along camera?  Other
> considerations?  I know you folks are a fund of
> arcane
> information and trenchant opinions,
> so let's have it.  Off line if the crowd objects to
> excessive onlist traffic. Thanks!
> 
> rgds
> Peter Choy
> California USA
> 
> 
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