Few cameras have greater appeal to shutterbugs around the world than Germany's famed Zeiss Contax. But Zeiss has had its troubles making it. At war's end. It lost its huge plant at Jena, along with 288 of its key designers and scientists, to the Russians: on top of that, its Contax patents expired, and competitors flooded the market with imitations.
Last week, after nine years of development work. Zeiss brought out a new camera with which it hopes to regain leadership in the high-quality candid-camera market. From its $2,000.000 plant in Stuttgart the first production models of the Contaflex were...
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