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From: dollas@uiucdcsb.Uiuc.ARPA
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Subject: Re: Novice Needs 35mm Recommendations
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Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 18:20:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  8 18:20:00 1985
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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

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