blumesan Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 <p>I am not a camera collector. However I am a great admirer of classic (photographic and other) technology and thus I always view this page on Pnet with great interest. </p> <p>I purchased my first camera (used Agfa Karat) 68 years ago. I still have that camera; but it hasn't been out of the closet for years. When I get around to it I must make a separate post for that camera.</p> <p>Eight years later I found a lovely Contax IIa with a Zeiss Opton 50/1.5 in the PX in Korea. That took a nice chunk of my army pay. However the cost was well amortized; I used that camera, almost exclusively, for the next 30 years. The difficulty of finding and using other lenses with that RF camera, plus my somewhat healthier pocketbook, set me in search of a SLR. I maintained my loyalty to Contax by getting a 139Q (with a very shabby coat that kept the price low) and a couple of Zeiss lenses. </p> <p>A few more years down the road I felt the need for a second (or backup) body which also allowed me to shoot color in one and B&W in the other. I found a Yashica FX-D (complete with a 135/2.8 no-name lens) on the auction site. A fairly low bid made it mine.<br> <img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/16960977-sm.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="150" /><br> <img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/16960980-sm.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="150" /></p> <p>It is interesting that the camera is completely unbadged with regard to the model designation.</p> <p>Fast forward a couple more years and I found a Contax RTS-II on auction, and I was able to have it at a price too low to resist. I repeat, I am not a camera collector and this made the Yashica really redundant. So we come to the real purpose of this post.</p> <p>I will be happy to send the Yashica + lens (Korean made CPC 135/2.8), postage paid in the lower 48, to anyone who will give it a good home and take it out for excersize now and then. Keep in mind that it will happily mount any Zeiss C/Y lenses you happen to have lying around. The <strong>third person</strong> to e-mail me (via Pnet contact) will be the winner.</p> <p>In the interest of full disclosure, 6 years ago I did succumb to the siren song of digital. I still use all of the Contaxes for about a third of my photographs.</p> <p> </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lou_Meluso Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 <p>Thanks for the chrono and Gear Give Away, Mike! Two thumbs up! That Yashica is a nice little shooter.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 <p>Dang nice of you.<br> Envy your Contax IIa especially. ;)</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grey_rogacion Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 <p>Nice to look/find a new home for the yashica, Mike. Two thumbs up!</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuck_foreman1 Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 Wow how generous... Interesting that the model "FX D" isn't on the body?? A collector's item probably! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rick_drawbridge Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 <p>Nice restrained and rational chronology, <strong>Mike</strong>, most unlike my disarray! Fine gesture, too...</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blumesan Posted February 23, 2013 Author Share Posted February 23, 2013 <p>And the winner is:<br> Chuck Foreman.<br> I have sent you an e-mail.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blumesan Posted February 23, 2013 Author Share Posted February 23, 2013 <p>JDM<br> The Contax IIa is really special; more exactly, the lens. Every shot, whether color or B&W just seems to pop right off the print.<br> Here's an example, rather old:</p> <div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred_c1 Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 <blockquote> <p> Interesting that the model "FX D" isn't on the body?? A collector's item probably!</p> </blockquote> <p>Just a wild guess: at some point the top cover was replaced with a part shared by different models, hence the absence of designation.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred_c1 Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 <blockquote> <p> Interesting that the model "FX D" isn't on the body?? A collector's item probably!</p> </blockquote> <p>Just a wild guess: at some point the top cover was replaced with a part shared by different models, hence the absence of designation.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom_cheshire Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 <p>I wonder who got the camera?</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blumesan Posted February 23, 2013 Author Share Posted February 23, 2013 <blockquote> <p>I wonder who got the camera?</p> </blockquote> <p>See page 1.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim_mcdermott1 Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 <p>Sorry, Mike, but you've opened a can of worms with that single example. A LOT more shots from the period required, please</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted February 24, 2013 Share Posted February 24, 2013 <p>Yes,<br> let's see a nice post on the Contax IIa - aside from some work by Gene M, as I seem to recall, we haven't seen a lot of it here.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuck_foreman1 Posted February 24, 2013 Share Posted February 24, 2013 <p>@Tom .. I seem to be the lucky third person! Thanks so much.. This is the most generous forum ever!!<br> Theory on why no name Badge.. duly noted!! Now Extra rare eh??!?!</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blumesan Posted February 24, 2013 Author Share Posted February 24, 2013 <p>OK, Jim & JDM<br /> An old Kodachrome. Berner Oberland with Eiger & Moench. Contax IIa</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blumesan Posted February 24, 2013 Author Share Posted February 24, 2013 <p>And this from Paris, ca. 1960</p> <div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 <p>Thanks,<br> lovely. :)</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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