The CONTAX one-three-seven MD quartz.
It's a 1980 camera and it's aimed at the
amateur photographer it's a it's
released after the context RTS and it
has all electronic upgrades that the RTS
doesn't have but it is downgraded in a
sense of functionality it only has a
auto exposure aperture priority and
that's that's basically it I think it's
very fun to use it's small in it looks
gorgeous and if you put 51.7 on here
that's a fantastic lens and it's very
very cheap then you have a very
pocketable nonot pocketable begger ball
you can easily put it in the back and
carry the route camera with you and this
delivers excellent quality photographs
let me start with the battery beautiful
twist and open for AAA batteries I got
two rechargeable batteries in there so
battery check and the main switch on
expose look so when you put a roll of
film in you set the other speeds by
lifting this wheel and turn it and you
have an auto setting flashing and a bulb
setting
underexposed by half a stop a bit by a
stop and two stops and overexpose and
that's basically all the control you
have set the exposure on the lens
aperture on the lens so the main switch
is to turn it on/off enter order expose
you have the exposure mode selector
single continuous self timer single
continuous and self timer with a nice
light it's ten second timer BBB PPP PPP
and you can cancel it out by turning off
the camera loading the film turn the
camera on
set it to single speed lift the this
thing rewind crank lever stuff and put
it in some film I could I made a test
roll I saw that with brown in the other
series
take out the film put it in one of those
things and make sure it's lined up with
the sprocket holes and that's it one two
three and you are at one this small
window here one and you're good to go
yeah I don't have a memo card but you
can put the memo here in the back of the
camera to show you how it focuses I swap
the lenses with it oh just the goblins
they can focus very close to point eight
25 millimeter I mainly have all of the
cheaper lenses so there's a couple of
expensive lenses 15 millimeter 18f for
one point four thirty five one point
four fifty one point for 80 60 micro
hundred marker those are all expensive
lenses but I Oh got that the cheaper
ones like nine ten or nine of those and
they are up to 300 euros I guess that
the the cheaper lenses this this one is
really cheap you can get this for less
than $100 and the camera to the camera
goes for between 40 and 100 dollars and
if you ask me this ridiculously low and
I don't know why it's that's unpopular
because they don't really have the
reputation to die they call functional
high quality lenses and I don't know
this is like the perfect combination for
basically everybody to get in film
photography it's cheap and almost
foolproof I should a roll of film with
it and all the photos came out great so
that's a good test can I use it so we
have a subject and I will show you what
it looks like through the viewfinder
first I have to support the little bit
yeah and now I can move camera to the
viewfinder when you touch the shutter
button the the camera will live on the
left-hand side you see the frame as a
mechanical wheel on the top you can see
the aperture if I move the ring yeah you
can see also it moves the sign on top of
it and when you block the lights the
indicator on the right hand side will go
down for strong shutter speeds and we go
up for fastest shutter speeds if I turn
the main switch to auto exposure lock
yeah
then lights will flicker and it will
stay there even if I take away the light
from the camera
let's see focus in the middle you see
the prism color and this brake line and
when you focus
you will see if it comes together and it
comes together and then you're a focus
maybe you have to put it a little bit
further away but you see this is
extremely close to the lens it's I won't
say it's macro but it's very very very
close like 20 something centimeters or
10 or 12 inches so if you the the
exposure lock will stay there all the
time as long as the the main switch is
on or exposure lock when you turn it
back to on it will change and we will
move again on the bottom you see LT that
means a long time so the the I don't
know let's see if we can get it - no LT
means a long time so all the shutter
speeds above 2 seconds they will be lit
up by LT Bob I can set the camera on Bob
and it will be Bob will be lit
so you see bulb rewind camera move this
small protection leaver press that
button
rewinds open and take the film out now I
think that's it what I like the most is
that it's so much fun to use it's
beautiful this is a little bit bulkier
heftier lens but the other lenses are
very small 35 is very small and very
light 50 small yeah fantastic cameras I
don't know I don't know what to say more
for the manual you can go to the
description of this video there's a link
there to one of the manual pages and yep
look out for it and buy one and have fun
