Dan, now that I'm officially allowed to tell you what you're talking about, I will.
The Zeiss/Contax lenses are excellent - I like them very much. They seem to be well built although I did have a tough time with a couple of mine in Romania 2 or 3 years ago. On the other hand, I did drop one of them onto the floor of a railway station office and another onto the floor of a cathedral. They were fixed under warranty though. My bodies are RXs. I bought them because they are extremely comfortable for me to hold and generally work very well ergonomically for me. The have a good weight - about the same as an LX+winder - and balance very well with the lenses - better than the aforementioned LXs, imo. In general mine have proved to be quite robust and have stood up to some reasonably testing conditions. I've had 2 problems with them. One was that I found a screw had come out of the top plate after I got back from India. I assume it was because of the vibration of the trains & boats & planes I'd been on. The other problem was that the cover of the exposure compensation dial came off one, although I noticed it and was able to fit it back. What this showed was that despite the effort and quality of almost all the rest of the body, they'd skimped on a couple of small, but important, points. If I hadn't seen this piece come off, the camera would have been unusable because I wouldn't have known what state the compensation was in. On the RTS bodies this is done properly as far as I can tell, and they should have done it on the RX too. There is a Contax list. I was on it for a while, but it was just a huge mutual love-in with sporadic outbursts of NRA fervour, and I prefer the rough & tumble of Planet Pentax where people generally stick to PK rather than PPK. --- Bob Saturday, October 19, 2002, 9:58:04 PM, you wrote: > I think so too. And I've got way more Pentax lenses than Nikon (wouldn't > have anything put the Nikons on, either, but that's beside the point). > On the other hand, Contax makes some very fine lenses for their 35mm > systems�if I hadn't heard such bad things about Contax bodies (and their > prices came down to about half of what they are) I'd probably be > participating in the CDML, if there is such a thing. > Dan Scott > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
