Marc,Thanks for those interesting links to German camera history I do think the Contax S family is one of the prettiest SLRs of all times* - if it only had worked as well as it looked...
Jan*other "pretty" SLRs being: C/Y Contax S2, Pentax MX, Olympus OM1, Canon EF...
On May 30, 2009, at 1:07 AM, FreeLists Mailing List Manager wrote:
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 10:14:00 -0400 From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [rollei_list] Peter Dechert's Monographs On-Line Several of Peter Dechert's fine monographs on camera history are available for dow-load at:<http://www.songofsnow.com/v/vspfiles/files/Dechert/INITIAL% 20POSTINGS/Contax%20S%20Monog.pdf>http://www.songofsnow.com/v/ vspfiles/files/Dechert/INITIAL%20POSTINGS/Contax%20S%20Monog.pdfAnd here is the listing page:<http://www.songofsnow.com/Peter-Dechert-TOC-s/157.htm>http:// www.songofsnow.com/Peter-Dechert-TOC-s/157.htmThanks to Sam Tang on the Praktica Users' Group for the link. Marc