Casablanca Paris, a luxury fashion brand known mainly for its colorful silk shirts, released a recolored Contax G2 for $8,500. It promptly sold out.
, a luxury fashion brand known mainly for its colorful silk shirts, released a recolored Contax G2 for $8,500. It promptly sold out.
The Contax G2 was produced between 1996 and 2005 and is described as the world’s most advanced rangefinder at the time. Casablanca says that it was “renowned for its ergonomics and technological innovation, it was a true accessory to the traveling man.” As such, the company chose to acquire a limited number of the classic cameras and refinish them with “hand-applied” ceramic multi-colored coatings.
“Crafted by artisans in Japan, it raised the bar as a masterpiece in electronic photography. Features such as a 35mm autofocus, a four-frame-per-second integrated motor drive, shutter speeds of up to 1/6000 per second, X-sync at 1/200 per second and an extended baseline-autofocus system with the Carl Zeiss Planar 45mm f/2 lens, all made the G2 a camera ahead of its time and highly regarded even by today’s standards,” Casablanca writes.
The multicolored version of the camera was a collaboration between Casablanca and MAD Paris, the second such partnership between the two brands (the first being a customized limited run of
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