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Tony_Polson
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Re: Worst Contax
      24/04/2008 13:18

The worst Contax has to be the AX. Whoever thought of a motorised telescoping body to deliver slow and hesitant autofocus should have been shot.

The second worst Contax (to me) is probably the 167MT. It worked well enough but I found the handling bizarre. Contax got it so right with the Aria, which I think shows that Kyocera/Yashica did learn from their mistakes.

I was a big fan of the N1. It performed and handled superbly. If only the N Digital had not been such a disaster, I think Contax would still be with us.

I didn't make the N Digital my choice for worst Contax ever because I admired the sheer bravery of Kyocera/Yashica in developing that camera when they did. The problem was entirely with the sensor, which was so bad that Pentax did not even release the DSLR they had developed around it.

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* Worst Contax Ian_A 06/02/2008 09:27
. * * Re: Worst Contax Tony_Polson   24/04/2008 13:18
. * * Re: Worst Contax Ian_A   25/04/2008 09:23
. * * Re: Worst Contax Malcolm_Stewart   25/04/2008 10:18
. * * Re: Worst Contax BenchistaModerator   25/04/2008 09:43
. * * Re: Worst Contax Malcolm_Stewart   07/02/2008 01:06
. * * Re: Worst Contax Ian_A   07/02/2008 10:25
. * * Re: Worst Contax Contaxcollector   06/02/2008 22:27
. * * Re: Worst Contax Ian_A   06/02/2008 22:34
. * * Re: Worst Contax melek   11/02/2008 17:38
. * * Re: Worst Contax Ian_A   26/02/2008 01:51
. * * Re: Worst Contax Dave_Cox   27/02/2008 21:16
. * * Re: Worst Contax zx9   27/02/2008 22:23
. * * Re: Worst Contax Dave_Cox   27/02/2008 22:35
. * * Re: Worst Contax Habanero   20/02/2008 15:44
. * * Re: Worst Contax Malcolm_Stewart   21/02/2008 08:10
. * * Re: Worst Contax Contaxcollector   06/02/2008 23:00
. * * Re: Worst Contax Ian_A   07/02/2008 08:40
. * * Re: Worst Contax Contaxcollector   06/02/2008 22:52
. * * Re: Worst Contax Malcolm_Stewart   06/02/2008 16:23
. * * Re: Worst Contax Ian_A   06/02/2008 22:20
. * * Re: Worst Contax BenchistaModerator   06/02/2008 09:36
. * * Re: Worst Contax Ian_A   06/02/2008 22:17
. * * Re: Worst Contax BenchistaModerator   07/02/2008 09:11
. * * Re: Worst Contax Contaxcollector   07/02/2008 19:50
. * * Re: Worst Contax zx9   08/02/2008 21:20
. * * Re: Worst Contax Malcolm_Stewart   07/02/2008 20:59
. * * Re: Worst Contax europanoramic   31/08/2008 03:24
. * * Re: Worst Contax nimbus   07/02/2008 13:25
. * * Re: Worst Contax Ian_A   07/02/2008 15:32
. * * Re: Worst Contax Ian_A   07/02/2008 10:30
. * * Re: Worst Contax Woolliscroft   07/02/2008 11:43
. * * Re: Worst Contax BenchistaModerator   07/02/2008 11:58
. * * Re: Worst Contax Woolliscroft   08/02/2008 10:12

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