Contax T2

I intend on writing a much longer review of this camera because my thoughts on it are quite dense. I will say that while I really wish I loved it, it doesn't resonate with me personally.

The body is a good shape and I love that it fits in my coat pocket. I love that it offers aperture control as well as manual focus.

I don't love the shutter button, the half press is so soft that it's hard to notice and I accidentally fire off shots. The autofocus is quite bad, at least in my particular model. It misses way too often to justify the cost of film.

Even when I use manual focus and I spot the center of the scene to be the focal point, it often will display as if it is in focus, but the shot will still miss. The way you control the focus is via a wheel on top of the camera. Maybe it's not accurate enough to compensate for the possibility of shooting at f/2.8. I'm not sure, but I miss a lot of shots no matter what I do.

The startup speed is a bit slow since the cover needs to move out of the way before the lens exits the body.

The frame lines in the viewfinder are quite bold and different for different focal ranges, but they both display all the time.

I may just have a not great model, but in general I get a bit frustrated using this camera, when I feel I'll hit more shots just using a manual camera that is probably smaller like my Minox 35mm cameras.

The lens is quite sharp and I do enjoy the flash.