Contax (stylised as CONTAX in the Kyocera era) began as a German camera model in the Zeiss Ikon line in 1932, and later became a brand name. The early...

The Contax T camera line consists of a number of compact cameras sold by Kyocera under the Contax brand. They were introduced between 1984 and 2002. The...

appeared on the Hungarian Duflex in 1947 and was refined in 1948 with the Contax S, the first camera to use a pentaprism. Prior to this, all SLRs were equipped...

pitch.) It was first used by the East German brands VEB Zeiss Ikon in the Contax S of 1949, and KW in the Praktica of the same year. VEB Zeiss Ikon and KW...

thus being on the market one year before the east German Zeiss Ikon VEB Contax S, announced on May 20, 1949, produced from September. The Japanese adopted...

of photo cameras. The name Pentacon is derived on the one hand from the Contax brand of the Dresden Zeiss Ikon Kamerawerke and Pentagon (Greek for pentagon)...

interchangeable lenses, and a pentaprism eye-level finder. Rectaflex (followed by Contax S) was the first SLR camera introducing the modern pentaprism eye-level finder...

and closed the shutter, and then moved the mirror back. The Zeiss Ikon Contax S was the first SLR camera to allow easy eye-level viewing by using a roof...

successor to the Kine Exakta of 1936. It was also inspired by the Zeiss Ikon Contax S as well as the Japanese Miranda T—most obviously the body shape by the...

for the Nikon S-mount. Rotoloni, Robert, Nikon Rangefinder Camera, 1983, Hove, East Sussex, Hove Collectors Books. Nakamura, Karen. "Contax and Nikon Rangefinder...

the U.S. government. 1948 The Hasselblad camera is introduced. Edwin H. Land introduces the first Polaroid instant camera. 1949 – The Contax S camera...

pentaprism's facets are perfectly aligned until it is destroyed. Zeiss Ikon Contax S with the world's first roof pentaprism on a single-lens reflex camera....

development of the type. After the war, Exakta resumed development and the Contax S model with the now familiar pentaprism viewing feature was introduced in...

Identical to Fujifilm TX series cameras and mount Contax RF-mount 34.85 mm Mirrorless 24×36 mm Nikon S-mount 34.85 mm Mirrorless 24×36 mm 1947–2005 1/2"...

in 1939. It was also the standard lens on the VEB Zeiss Ikon (Dresden) Contax S (1949, East Germany), the first pentaprism eye-level viewing 35mm SLR....

differs by having a 0.75mm thread pitch.) It was first used in Zeiss' Contax S of 1949; this East German branch of Zeiss also sold cameras under the Pentacon...

in September the same year, thus hitting the market one year before the Contax S, presented in 1949. It also had a wide diameter bayonet mount and a Rapid...

time; also seen a year before on the Rectaflex from Rome, Italy, and the Contax S from Zeiss Ikon in Dresden. Production of this first generation ALPA-Reflex...

inspired by the German Contax and Leica cameras. After careful studies of these, Nippon Kogaku had decided to base their camera on the Contax, but substitute...

an electronically controlled shutter bearing the Contax brand. A new prestige line of Yashica/Contax lenses designed by Carl Zeiss was introduced for...

then developed as the Soviet Kiev), Nikon S-series cameras from 1951 to 1962 (with design inspired by the Contax and function by the Leica), and Leica M-series...

Influential cameras designs like that of the 1939 KW Praktiflex, the 1949 ZI Contax S, and 1952 the KW Praktina marked the steady progress toward a perfected...

screw, but later cameras have the new 42mm lens mount, first used on the Contax S and the Praktica of 1949, since production lasted until 1951. Only a small...

Zeiss-licensed cameras Contax RTS II (Yashica/Kyocera) Contax T (Yashica/Kyocera) Contax G1 (Yashica/Kyocera) Contax 645 (Yashica/Kyocera) Contax SL300RT digital...

28 mm lenses. The camera uses Nikon's 'S' bayonet lens mount which is a modified Contax 'C' bayonet and Contax 'C' lenses are physically compatible but...

50 mm lens with six elements in three groups and released with the Zeiss Contax I rangefinder camera in 1932. In 1931, Bertele reformulated the Sonnar with...

Contax Netball Club are an Australian netball team based in Adelaide, South Australia. Their senior team currently plays in the Netball South Australia...

Gibson. Neville spent the 2000 season in Australia where she played for Contax in the South Australia Farmers Union League and for Adelaide Thunderbirds...

clones of the pre-WWII Contax II and Contax III cameras. Kiev rangefinders retained the same lens mount as the pre-WWII Contax rangefinders, making the...

company takes its name from the initials of its founders: Henry Kloss, Malcolm S. Low, and Josef Anton Hofmann. The original aim of the company was to design...