I owned this camera for about 6 months, it is a film camera that has superb, sharp lenses, auto focus and auto film advance/rewind. It was meant to take on the behemoth Leica and does in some respects.
Because of the way it auto focuses and because it is a rangefinder, you never know what exactly it is focusing on but it tends to latch on to the right subject in my tests. The camera is fast in every way that film tends to not be. You stick the film in the camera and it loads it, you set the aperture (the only thing you do manually) and run around auto focusing.
One of the reasons I bought this was a glowing review from Ken Rockwell. (http://kenrockwell.com/contax/g2.htm) Who called this camera the 'world's most advanced rangefinder camera' and then goes on to expound on its riches. Others in the camera world have expanded on this and said, for the money, you can't really do better.
And...now I am selling it, keeping the lenses, but selling it. Why?
Because it defeats the purpose of a film camera, at least in the digital age. I submit that the main place film has in the digital age is to learn and/or slow down while taking shots. I can't see what keeps the Contax G2 separated from digital other than the film you load into it.
What are your thoughts? Is the Contax G a workhorse or a contradiction?
