> It can't use lenses from previous Contax AF SLR, because it (Contax
> AX) was a weird contraption that achieved autofocus by moving film
> plane.
>Oh my. That is unusual!
Not really. The AX didn't use AF lenses--it used the standard manual-focus
Contax lenses that have been around since the early 1970s. AF was achieved
by moving the film plane inside the body, not by actually focusing the
lenses.
The people I've known who owned the AX actually liked it quite a bit, but it
was highly contrived, awkward, and now is shown to be a dead end. It will be
a collector's item someday, a footnote in the history of camera design.
--Mike
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