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     charlie Rating: N/A |
I was a kid in high school in the early 1940's in tha camera club (plastic Kodak Bullet) and the faculty adviser had a Contax III. We all oohed and ahed when he brought it in. At that time Zeiss optics were reputed to be the world's best, microscopes, binoculars, cameras. Yes, we had heard of Leica but then anyway it played second fiddle. After the war when Germany and some of its industries were split between East and West there was a habit, unfounded or not to consider East German products inferior and Leica, in the West, became more prominent. East Germany produced the Contax S SLR (first pentaprism?). |