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Unfortunately, the complexity of the Contax cameras is equally great. It is very difficult to put it into words except to say simply that the prognosis for a camera that is disassembled by a person who is doing so for the first time is not good. There are four main reasons for this. The first reason is that about two out of every three Contax cameras did not work when they were sold. My experience is that a Contax that took good pictures got used well and got a lot of wear marks; and a Contax that didn't work sat on a shelf and kept its good looks.

Today people pay a big premium for a Mint Contax only to find there is something important about it that doesn't work right. The reason for this is fairly simple. The Contax camera is hand made out of parts that are largely hand made. Games Nokia 5130 Xpressmusic Zedge. The key to the making of a great picture taking Contax was in the hands of the person who originally assembled the camera.

Unfortunately, the assemblers in the Zeiss factory had the lowest status and were paid on a piece work basis. It takes a lot of skill and careful fitting of parts to each other to make a camera that works right. You must put the camera together and then take it apart many times during this process.

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My guess is that a good assembler could put a single good camera together in a comlete working day. But a single camera would't pay the rent at piece work pay, so many cameras were simply assembled as quickly as they could be and these have never taken a decent picture. Truemove Aircard Driver Download- Download Preactivated Version. The result is that finding the little fault that has caused the camera to sit on a shelf for fifty years or so requires vast experience. I can tell you from experience that I have serviced over 150 Contax cameras and I am still finding ones with 'from the factory' problems I have never seen before.

There are many parts in a Contax, and with each being hand made, each has many possible modes of having been made wrong. The second reason is not obvious. The inner workings of the Contax are filled with old grease that is in an advanced, but very slowly proceeding state of oxidation, hardening and separation. While the Contax body is not absolutely air tight, the exchange of air from inside to outside the camera body where the mechanical works are located is very slow. When the camera body is opened and exposed to fresh air, the lubrication is exposed to abundant oxygen and the deterioration proceeds rapidly.