The cap slides over the lens hood which can therefore be left on permanently.ĭespite its high-tech innards the styling and handling of the G2 are very traditional. In fact, they used this technology very well and it still compares favourably with the latest advances, even after a decade or more. In concept and purpose this is exactly what the Contaxes are, but what makes them different (and beyond the pail to some people!) is that they use the sort of state-of-the-art technology such as autofocus, DX coding, motorised film advance/rewind and light metering previously found in contemporary SLRs. It was supplemented and then replaced by the improved G2 which can be considered as the definitive G-System camera, and which is now available second-hand (or “previously loved” as they say in the classic car business) at very reasonable prices which means the G1 is not really worth considering.Īt first glance the Gs appear to be very similar to a multitude of rangefinder cameras that date back to the 1930s, and continue to this day with the Voigtlanders/Rolleis/Cosinas, the Zeiss Ikon and the Leica MP and M7.
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Some feeling it did not quite deserve to be put on the pedestal they wanted to put it on, others feeling it betrayed the manual and mechanical purity of the rangefinder photography tradition. The original G1 was launched in the early 1990s to a mixed reception. Christopher Webb takes a look at this classic camera. The Contax G2 is one of just two cameras that formed the basis of the G System, which also comprises lenses and accessories.
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