Purchasing a Contax IIa/IIIa? Battlefield 1943 Full Version Pc. Rule Number One, which under no conditions must ever be violated, is very simple. Do not buy anything out of the Netherlands under any conditions. I could write for hours about this tip and the consequences of violating it but will just say 'DON'T DO IT. There is a gang of camera butchers working out of the Netherlands selling cameras advertised to be 'superb' or 'CLA'd' such as Contaxes, Super Ikontas and other Zeiss cameras. These cameras have been totally wrecked and are extraordinarily expensive to make right.

This is a late example of the Contax I. Serial Number: Y96909. Zeiss-Ikon cable release. Ever-ready case. Small Zeiss-Ikon tripod in leather case. Contax II and III. Lenses ran the range from 28 to 135 and were fully compatible with the Zeiss Contax. The first letter before the serial number.

I've seen enough of them to never want to see another. Rule Number Two is to never buy a camera out of Europe unless you can avoid it. The problem with European cameras is that they have all been through at least one or more wars.

They may also have been worked on by the criminal camera wrecking gang in the Netherlands even though the camera is being sold out of another country. The USA was the prime market for Zeiss because sales in the USA generated DOLLARS. Keep in mind that during the 1930's there was a big depression and so Zeiss targeted the USA and sent only its best products to the USA. Then, after World War II Germany needed dollars very badly and so the same thing happened. The highest quality Zeiss cameras are available in the USA and you can find every modem available here. There is no need to take the risk of buying a camera out of Europe. 3 is never buy anything out of the City of Los Angeles, California without negotiating a return and refund agreement with the seller using the Ebay messaging system.

Both the Netherlands and Los Angeles have world class camera butchers working there who specialize in the ruination of Contax equipment, making it look pretty and then selling it on Ebay. 4 is to always remember the following: There is not, never has been, and never will be a cheap good Contax.

The Contax is the highest expression of photographic art and people tend to quickly fall in love with the one they buy for the simple reason it is true art. The finest engineers Germany could produce designed them.

The finest artisan craftsmen, using the finest machines and the finest materials available in the world made these cameras. The Contax was tremendously expensive when new.

Now, they are available cheaply because they don't work right. They don't' work right because they are old and their lubricants have dried up and because many of them have been badly maintained or have been worked on by camera butchers. There are also Contaxes that don't work right because they have been used up.

Adobe Flash Professional Cc 32 Bit on this page. No machine lasts forever. There are Contaxes on the market that have taken so many pictures they are simply worn out.

Many Contaxes were sold to professional photographers who simply used them up. 5 is be deeply suspicious. These days there is a great demand for classic 35mm rangefinder cameras. No one is making them and the top of the heap of 35mm rangefinder cameras is the Contax. There are many unscrupulous sellers who 'fix up' a Contax to make it appear to be working so that it can be sold for a good price. These cameras are opened, oil is squirted on the mechanism and then the shutter springs are over tightened. It is very easy to tighten the shutter springs without opening the camera.

This makes it easy to tighten them far beyond normal limits and to do a lot of damage to the shutter. Beware of all Contaxes on the market today that are advertised to have been 'CLA'd' or to be 'Working'. These words translate into 'Shutter springs are over tightened'. Over tightening the shutter springs in a Contax does the opposite of what many people suppose it will do. Tightening the springs decreases the high speeds of 1/250, 1/500 and 1/1250.