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Overview of the SL300R

I for one am very much looking forward to owning the Contax SL300R. I wonder how far the new lens, etc, will push the current $400 price tag of the Kyocera version. The 28mm adapter is also a fantastic inclusion. I am hanging to see some kind of independant review and s&le photos, although I have basically made up my mind already.
 
Hi Gary

Yes I know! I posted details of the SL300R on:

Contax User Forum » Contax Digital Cameras » General discussion: Digital Cameras & Contax future

.... on 12th September 2003, the day it was announced!

Thanks anyway! Bob.
 
Hello Bob,
Seems to me that Kyocera is still running one brand against the other with the Contax and the Kyocera SL300R only Kyocera no longer calls itself Yashica. I thought the Yashica/Contax policy worked well, for the consumer anyway and probably also for the company as one thing led to another from it. My daughter has a Yashica FR which is still going strong. She could use my Zeiss lenses if she wished. Instead she generally chooses to use her Yashica T5 with excellent results. I am at the moment buying an FX3 Super 2000 to complement my Contax cameras. I had an FX3 years ago and it was my first venture into the Yashica SLR system, which then led me into the Contax system with a 139 and ever onwards while still being able to use and share the Yashica system which I still can and do although I have several Contax cameras. It is a means to expand sales of Kyocera products.
Best wishes,
John
 
From a relatively reliable sourse I got a pretty curious piece of information. It appears that Carl Zeiss renewed its contract with Kyocera for another eight years. If I were Zeiss, Kyocera would find itself behind the shut door the day N Digital was discontinued. Or, perhaps, there is some kind of royal marriage between Erl Zeiss and Princess Kyocera that we do not know about?
 
Robert,

"new lens" ? As far as I can tell, it's most likely exactly the same lens as in Kyocera SL300R.
Probably the only difference is multicoating and Zeiss logo (and price).

Mike.
 
<As far as I can tell, it's most likely exactly the same lens as in Kyocera SL300R.
Probably the only difference is multicoating and Zeiss logo (and price).>

Why, you forgot the leather front cover.

Regards:

Gilbert
 
That is intriguing news Irakly. I suppose Kyocera is still a traditional outlet for Carl Zeiss' lenses even if the new ones were to be only for digital compacts.
I think that the C/Y system is the system for Kyocera but I suppose that it is only really now appreciated by the specialist and is not where the money is. A company has to make money and in such a rapidly developing market it must be difficult for Kyocera to know quite which way to turn when it appears to have taken the positive step unlike Leica of abandoning manual focus and "rangefinders". The ND has folded. The reception of N system appears lukewarm although 645 is good but in view of the price can only have a limited market. Maybe they feel that digital compacts with CZ lenses for Contax brand are the way forward; a bit like Olympus were with film compacts (but no CZ of course)until they expanded digitally big time. On the other hand maybe there is an ND 2 up Kyocera's sleeve with CZ lenses. Carl Zeiss appear to have lost some of their Hasselblad market so they probably want to hang on to Kyocera while forging new contacts with people like Sony if their contracts allow it.
Just some thoughts.
Cheers,
John
 
Surely the lens is different from the original Kyocera version? Isn't that supposed to be the main difference? I'm not too familiar with the history regarding all these companies dealings with each other. Are you saying the original camera has a Carl Zeiss lens also?
 
This is a geneal question for the digital-savvy:
What is the limiting factor in current digital cameras: the sensor or the lens? My understanding is that, for film cameras, the lenses currently are able toget more resolution than most (if not all) films, which was probably not the case 30 years ago.
(For instance, if you are trying to see which lens has higher resolution, you would use TMAX 100 (say) and NOT TMAX 3200, because with the latter the film would become the limiting factor and you would be unable to see the difference between lenses.)
Are current lenses for SLRs well above what current sensors can capture, or are they the true limiting factor?
I know that lens quality is much more than lpm, but then the next problem arises: how are you going to compare lenses on different cameras with different sensors? The end product is going to be much more dependent from the sensor/software than of the lens itself. Or not?
Thanks in advance for answering.
Juan
 
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