![]() ![]() This shake-up came in the form of the Contax G system. ![]() Yashica was no longer the cheapest reliable option and Contax no longer embraced bleeding-edge technology. Both were being outcompeted in their respective markets. It took until 2001 for Contax’s first real autofocus system to debut, and even if they turned this N system into the first full-frame digital camera, it was too little, too late.Ĭontax and Yashica’s parent company, Kyocera, didn’t like the downward trend their camera companies were on. Yashica’s line of autofocus SLRs came out too late and flopped in comparison to Minolta and Canon’s attempts, and Contax’s hesitance to enter the autofocus world left them far behind their competition.įor example, 1996’s Contax AX attempted to move the film plane to achieve focus instead of the lens. ![]() In 1994, Contax and Yashica were hurting. ![]()
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