5 Responses to “Contax AX mirror slip …”

1. Jim Grey says:

   2017-10-20 at 18:21

   It sure is frus­trat­ing when you dis­cov­er poor qual­ity aspects of an expens­ive piece of gear. Espe­cially when you bought it new. I’m per­son­ally more for­giv­ing when it hap­pens to some­thing I bought used, espe­cially when I got a bar­gain on it.

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   • rgiw says:

     2017-10-20 at 19:09

     Thanks Jim, I know what you mean.
     I bought it used, but fully func­tion­ing.

     As long as no dam­age remains (by mir­ror hit­ting rear lens ele­ment) and as long as an “easy” repair is pos­sible (where I do not really like work­ing on such a hi-tech machine) all should be good.

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2. Frank Lehnen says:

   2017-10-31 at 16:09

   I found out after long years of buy­ing, selling re-buy­ing and re-selling cam­er­as that it’s far more accept­able for a cheap cam­era to f… up on me than for a premi­um cam­era.

   Once I had my ‘new’ Ricoh GR1’ quit on me after only 5 rolls of film I quickly sold my Con­tax Tvs too.…

   My Olymous XA2 still going strong, and if ever it will fail… well for 45 € I’ll get anoth­er one!

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   • rgiw says:

     2017-10-31 at 17:54

     … I know … but they are so gor­geous ;)

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3. RIZA says:

   2020-01-02 at 08:01

   Due to this, the mir­ror crashes onto the lens rear ele­ment and hangs in upper pos­i­tion.

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