[Leica] OT: Contax T

[ahgraves at prodigy.net (Allen Graves)]

Why not buy the black one, find the back from a non-functioning 
chrome T and have the first Contax T PANDA !!!!!

just a belated late night thought.

Allen


>OK LUG brainiacs out there, who knows
>something about the Contax T (not T2, T3
>or T whatever)?
>
>Intrigued by the piece on Dante's website,
>I decided to check one out at the neighborhood
>camera shop.  Nice looking cosmetics and
>appears (without running and processing a
>test roll) to work.   This one is black.
>
>Here's the question:  on the inside surface
>of the camera back there are two shallow
>vertical slots in which thin metal rails are
>inset.  One of them has been glued back in,
>the other one is completely missing.  They
>appear to press up against the spring on the
>black of the film pressure plate when the
>camera is closed. But neither the camera shop
>guy nor I can figure out the exact function and
>thus don't know if its absence is critical.  No
>body appears to fix these things.  Can anybody
>help?  Also, what would you as a knowledgeable
>Contax T user/fan be willing to pay for one of
>these, as a pocket take-along camera?  Other
>considerations?  I know you folks are a fund of arcane
>information and trenchant opinions,
>so let's have it.  Off line if the crowd objects to
>excessive onlist traffic. Thanks!
>
>rgds
>Peter Choy
>California USA
>
>
>
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