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on May 25, 2024 18:52:18 GMT
Posted: May 25, 2024 18:52:18 GMT
This rather pleasing Contax Real Time Photography system case arrived a few days ago; it was previously unknown to me and I can find no references to it in price lists from the 1980s to the end of the marque.  Contax 645 Soft BagIt was being sold as a ' Contax 645 Soft Case', but I'm not entirely convinced that is correct. I have fitted a C645 with a 45mm Distagon lens comfortably inside along with a TLA360 flash unit but that left precious little room for anything else. It does work as a system case for Contax (or Yashica) 35mm SLRs and it could also accommodate the Contax G-Series. It is light-weight, well-padded and waterproof. I have no idea if this was available outside Japan - does anyone here have one? |
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on May 26, 2024 9:04:36 GMT
Posted: May 26, 2024 9:04:36 GMT
I can see why you are not convinced by the 645 label! The "Real Time" reference goes back two decades before the 645 introduction in 1998. Although it did briefly reappear with the 1990 RTS III.
I think I remember seeing one here in the UK. If my memory is correct, a Contax Postal Club member brought it along to one of the annual meet-ups.
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on May 26, 2024 10:44:13 GMT
Posted: May 26, 2024 10:44:13 GMT
I can see why you are not convinced by the 645 label! The "Real Time" reference goes back two decades before the 645 introduction in 1998. Although it did briefly reappear with the 1990 RTS III. I think I remember seeing one here in the UK. If my memory is correct, a Contax Postal Club member brought it along to one of the annual meet-ups. Hi Bob, Thank you for that insight - it's good to know that there's at least one other of these cases here in the UK. Your observations also got me pondering as to when Contax adopted Real Time Photography instead of Real Time System ( RTS) and it goes right back to 1975 with the marketing of the Contax RTS. The first brochure I have is from the redoubtable David S H Leung of Goodmayes, Essex (a great advocate for the Contax in his sadly now closed shop) and is from early 1975; it's a trade-only document which mentions neither system reference but mentions that RTS stands for Real Time System. The first consumer brochure for the new Contax RTS carries the strapline: Real Time Photography and the Real Time theme runs throughout. What then becomes interesting is that a few years later there are two versions of the combined RTS, 137MD and 139Q brochures, one bearing the legend Real Time System (presumably the earlier one) and the other Real Time Photography. I'm staring at a 159MM brochure and on a number of pages, there is a Contax Real Time Photography logo to be found. Until you mentioned Real Time, I'd failed to notice the two different references to the Contax system. One continues to live and learn... |
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