Hi Ulf,
I can totally understand your feelings, let let me assure you (since we tried it over 3 years) that it is not in our hands anymore what will happen with the Contax brand. As long as Zeiss does not find a new coopertaion partner and Kyocera changes its mind, there is simply no hope for new developments.
So the only hope is to continiue to use the Zeiss lenses. At the end of teh day, the majority of Contax users bought Contax because of the lenses, right?
So it is natural, that we discuss also in a Contax/Zeiss Forum new possibilities to adapt our Zeiss lenses on something that can make digital shooting possible. We of course can still make images on film with a Zeiss/Contax combo, but at the moment there is no DSLR option. I just tried to contact today Zeiss and Kyocera again, but the responsible persons were not reachable/did not pick up the phone.
So I do not give up on the Contax dream and I will continue to be a pain in the neck of some decision makers, but we should not be too optimistic. If you look at the photo industry, there are only losses except for Canon and recently Nikon. Kodak tumbles, Olympus tumbles, Minolta was sold to Konica, Pentax tumbles... you name it. And the fact that Nikon just had a great last quarter does not say that they will survive longterm.
To be honest I do not see at the moment any way out for Zeiss. No big player will be interest in continuing the N-system. This would be a too dramatic competition. And for the analog Zeiss lenses, most users alraeyd switched to Canon to use their zeiss lenses with an adapter on the Canon DSLR.
This means that those users have
a) no money anymore near term for a DSLR
b) will always get a cheaper and more advanced Zeiss compatible (!) DSLR from Canon, in case someone tries to offer a Contax DSLR with C/Y mount.
If you reflect additionally that it takes at least 2 years from the planning of a DSLR until you see it in the shelves, you can count how likely you will see a new Contax DSLR soon, even if Zeiss finds a partner tomorrow.
So the goal is in the mean time to enjoy the Zeiss lenses - no matter what kind of box is behind them.
But I agree, ideally we should talk 95% about Contax and Zeiss. But extreme situations lead often to extreme behaviour