Due to the lenses, I have only found the Nikon 810 to be semi-equivilent. But once you master it, there is no equal. (my guess,…although I understand he recently started shooting a Canon 5D) Is it a quirky camera? Yes. They have since gone up in price, mostly due to a film resurgence, lens adapters for digital cams,….and probably due to Juergen Teller. This was when the masses were all dumping their film cameras. I bought the G2 about a year later at almost the same price. The G1, (green label), with the exquisite 45mm Zeiss, was about$400 used about 7 years ago.(purchased on Ebay from Joe McNally!) Who I guess was going totally digital. Professionally, (in the film era), I mostly used Nikon and Rollei. I have both the Contax G1 and G2, both bought used. I’ve always been a Nikon shooter, but even Nikon couldn’t compete, in my eyes, with the solid finesse of this titanium satin beauty. I guess that’s the source of my bitterness. Would I have liked it if they made a full frame digital G camera? Sure. Kyocera is kind of like the American 3M or Dupont,…fingers in lots of pies. I guess there’s more money in tractors, or whatever industrial crap they make. They have since left the camera business. Contax G1 camera is a 35mm film titanium autofocus electronic rangefinder camera that was manufactured by Kyocera Co., Kyoto, Japan and produced between 1994-96.
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