In one other case of every little thing previous is new once more, we’re seeing a development of digital cameras changing into well-liked with the youthful technology. Whereas after all most individuals nonetheless use their smartphone’s digicam to take pics and movies, there are nonetheless those that desire to convey round precise cameras to seize selfies, moments, landscapes, and different imagery. So we’re seeing a welcome resurgence of those sorts of cameras and equipment. Again “within the day” (and we imply the late 90s to early 2000s), the Contax G2 was one of the vital superior rangefinder cameras and now we’re seeing a reimagined design for this “traditional”.
Designer: MAD Paris and Casablanca
The MAD Casablanca Contax G2 Digital camera is a colourful reimagining of this traditional digital digicam by MAD Paris and Casablanca. As a substitute of simply the traditional black, silver, and grey from the unique model, we now get a color-blocked design that showcases the manufacturers’ distinctive appears to be like. You get blocks of inexperienced, yellow, blue, and crimson with occasional black and silver colours as effectively and the signature diamond emblem branding to high it off. The digicam will get a hand-applied ceramic multi-colored coating ending.
By way of the options, you continue to get what the Contax G2 is legendary for. That features the Carl Zeiss Planar 45mm f/2 lens, the 35mm autofocus, a four-frame-per-second built-in motor drive, as much as 1/6000 per second shutter speeds, and so on. Once you buy the set, it additionally features a CR123A battery, neck strap, and a Superia Premium 400 movie roll. The digicam itself makes use of plastic, aluminum, and glass supplies.
Whereas the unique Contax G2 was manufactured in Japan, this model was created within the U.Okay and is a restricted version solely. For now, it’s really offered out on the Casablanca Paris web site however hopefully, they can produce extra. Properly, you would need to spend $8,300 to have certainly one of these infants so the truth that they’ve already offered out means lots of people are keen to spend that a lot to have the ability to have a colourful model of this traditional digicam.
