On Tue, 30 Oct 2012, Tony Duell wrote:
The COntax II is plain _beautiful_. I rebelled against
my father by
saying the COtnax was superior to the Leica before the War, and buying a
COntax II to prove it. I then bougth a Lieca as well :-).
According to Buckland, the original Contax was one of the things designed
by Emmanual Goldberg. BUT, because he was a Jew, as WWII started up,
Zeiss [Germany] systematically destroyed virtually all records of his
existence.