Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.5 $; site uiucdcsb Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcsb!seefromline From: dollas@uiucdcsb.Uiuc.ARPA Newsgroups: net.rec.photo Subject: Re: Novice Needs 35mm Recommendations Message-ID: <11500009@uiucdcsb> Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 18:20:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcsb.11500009 Posted: Mon Jul 8 18:20:00 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jul-85 00:49:23 EDT References: <24800001@gypsy> Lines: 27 Nf-ID: #R:gypsy:24800001:uiucdcsb:11500009:000:1411 Nf-From: uiucdcsb.Uiuc.ARPA!dollas Jul 8 17:20:00 1985 Recently I bought a Contax 137MA which fits your bill. Its lenses are Zeiss designed and manufactured by Yashica; overall I find it a slightly better value than the Nikon FE which is an excellent camera also. For optics I believe (Leica and other exotic cameras excluded) Nikon and Contax(w/ Zeiss optics) have the best. If you want lots of features (spot metering, off-the-film metering, etc) the Olympus OM-2S is an excellent camera (and rather inexpensive for what it does). Finally, if you want to get extremely high quality optics without too many frills and at a real bargain price go for a Yashica body (such as the FX-D) with a Carl Zeiss lens (say, the Planar f/1.7 50mm). Even the 'Modern Photography' gurus suggest it as a really good combination (December issue of '84 if I recall correctly -it is a long article about the best cameras of the year). As far as the price, mail order stores in NY have very good prices (these days the Contax 137MA with the Zeis Planar f/1.7 50mm goes for < $300). Since this is no advertisment section I will not write any comments but I will be glad to send to interested readers a note with my experiences from such stores. Apostolos Dollas Department of Computer Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign USENET: ...!{pur-ee,ihnp4}!uiucdcs!dollas CSNET: dollas%uiuc@csnet-relay.arpa ARPA: dollas@uiuc.arpa