Word: contaxes
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...cameras have greater appeal to shutterbugs around the world than Germany's famed Zeiss Contax. But Zeiss has had its troubles making it. At war's end. It lost its huge plant at Jena, along with 288 of its key designers and scientists, to the Russians: on top of that, its Contax patents expired, and competitors flooded the market with imitations...
...U.S.A precision instrument with watchwork-size screws and springs as delicate as a snail's antenna, the 35-mm. Contaflex weighs only 18 oz.. v. 34½-oz. for the Rolleiflex and 29^ oz. for the Leica. It combines the simplicity of operation of the Contax with the easy focusing and accurate view finding of a reflex camera. Price of the new camera with f/2.8 lens...
...With it, he took 108 pictures of the meeting. Next day he had an addition. He picked up two copies of a fat book (The World's Greatest Doers- The Story of Lions, by Robert Casey and W.A.S. Douglas), hollowed them out, stuck them together, and fitted a Contax camera into them. With this contraption, Miller snapped most of a roll of film before the camera was spotted by a sergeant-at-arms. Cameraman Miller was waved...
...lines were written last spring when Shaw, seven years short of his target centenary and bored with old age, was to be seen stumping about Ayot Saint Lawrence with a contax camera. Neighbors watched him focus on the village show places. "That must be hard work, sir," said Postmistress Jisbella Lyth. Tiring, said Shaw. Last week the village had a chance to see Shaw's photographs. Bernard Shaw's Rhyming Picture Guide to Ayot Saint Lawrence (price one shilling)* went on sale in Mrs. Lyth's post-office shop...
...Magic Show. Western businessmen who looked at Eastern Germany's exhibits-giant cranes, rakish little automobiles (see cut), shiny new Contax cameras-were disappointed when they went to the fair's export offices to put in orders. "Sorry," they were told, "we're only exporting that line to the east." "You know why they encouraged us to come here," said one embittered American buyer. "Because it helps their propaganda along." He pointed to a sign that proclaimed: "Leipzig Fair-Symbol of German Unity...