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Camera Lens News No. 10
Sommer 2000 |
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Contax 645 - Outselling the competition
Market feedback shows that the Contax 645 was the best selling medium format autofocus SLR camera in America in 1999.
Major reason for the success of this system is the range of Carl Zeiss lenses, the only lenses in any medium format AF SLR offering robust precision metal housings and advanced all-electric lens mounts with specific autofocus drive motors in each lens, not just a single one in the camera body.
The new Contax 645 AF SLR system keeps attracting photographers moving up from 35 mm to medium format, expecting full autofocus capability from their camera.
Another group of new Contax 645 customers are medium format users moving from older medium format gear into this modern high tech system. For them, too, the quality of the Carl Zeiss lenses is an important consideration.
Professional photographers are an inportant group where the Contax 645 system gained particular success. For them the Contax 645 with its classical user interface is an easy-to-use system although rich with modern features. Many professionals find the Contax 645 with its metal housed Zeiss lenses currently is the medium format autofocus SLR with the best built quality. | |
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