randomrubble
New Member
Hi, this is my first post but I've been lurking around the forum soaking up information for almost 2 years while building a nice little Contax outfit.
As a teenager getting into photography in the 80s I read a review of the Contax 159MM with the 25mm Distagon and it became my dream camera but way out of reach on my pocket money!
I ended up with a Canon FD outfit which served me well for almost 20 years, until the digital revolution made me go Eos. Then, a couple of years ago, I found a nice little Zeiss 50/1.7 in a charity shop for a tenner. after playing with it on an Eos I decided to sell the little planar on eBay.
This is where fate took a hand, the cheap little lens went for one of those crazy 'I must win' prices while the camera of my youthful dreams - a 159MM - came up at the same time with lens, for less than the first Planar.
Since then I have steadily refined my little Contax to the point where I just got a myself a mint condition 25/2.8 Distagon to put on my 159MM. In the end I now have MM versions of the 25/2.8, 50/1.7, 85/1.4 & 100/3.5. Which forms nice core to my outfit.
On the way along i've had the chance to try the RTS, 167MT, 18mm and 28/2.8 Distagons, 50/1.4 Planar and a few Yashicas including the very decent 21/3.5. If we ever get a summer here in the UK I hope to post a few images!!!
As a teenager getting into photography in the 80s I read a review of the Contax 159MM with the 25mm Distagon and it became my dream camera but way out of reach on my pocket money!
I ended up with a Canon FD outfit which served me well for almost 20 years, until the digital revolution made me go Eos. Then, a couple of years ago, I found a nice little Zeiss 50/1.7 in a charity shop for a tenner. after playing with it on an Eos I decided to sell the little planar on eBay.
This is where fate took a hand, the cheap little lens went for one of those crazy 'I must win' prices while the camera of my youthful dreams - a 159MM - came up at the same time with lens, for less than the first Planar.
Since then I have steadily refined my little Contax to the point where I just got a myself a mint condition 25/2.8 Distagon to put on my 159MM. In the end I now have MM versions of the 25/2.8, 50/1.7, 85/1.4 & 100/3.5. Which forms nice core to my outfit.
On the way along i've had the chance to try the RTS, 167MT, 18mm and 28/2.8 Distagons, 50/1.4 Planar and a few Yashicas including the very decent 21/3.5. If we ever get a summer here in the UK I hope to post a few images!!!