Tritec would be my only recommendation for C645 cameras to anyone now. Turn around was only 10 working days too!. I now have a brand new shutter which should last a long time for me, spot meter should also last well and the auto focus is very snappy and good in very low light now. All up a good price I thought - superior german workmanship i hope. Heard back after two days an paid them - shutter was €130 and labour for that and spot meter repair was double. Contact can be a bit tricky - maybe it's a language thing (my German isn't that great so wrote in english) or maybe they are super busy but after two /three emails heard from them, sent my camera body in with details of problem. It turned out truly beautiful.I had my C645 body repaired by Tritec recently and recommend them.
We shot an entire Kodak Tri-X 400 at sunset in Villa Pamphili, and developed everything at home the next day. He is a film shooter, too, and he was as excited as me for my new toy. The day after I bought it I jumped on the train to Rome to shoot the first roll with my boyfriend. I had just bought the camera and I feared something could be wrong with it. I was very worried before shooting my first roll. Tell me about your first shoot with the camera.Of course you need to pay even more attention to the composition, but that is what makes this camera the best choice for shooting film at weddings. Plus, the 6x4.5 format is such a great size because you have more space in comparison than the usual 6圆 medium format frame. Thanks to the Zeiss lens you can have your subject almost detached from the background, and that is what I like the most. The ones you mentioned are easily my favourite features of the Contax. For me, the subject definition and soft backgrounds that the Contax 645 can make are two of its best features, what are its killer photographic characteristics for you?.It surely is not its best feature, especially if you love shooting at low aperture speed, because focus almost always needs to be manually corrected. Then, don't just buy this camera because you want a great film camera with autofocus. Finding a Contax 645 can take longer than you expect. Especially if you are in Europe, you need to be patient. Do you have any advice for a potential buyer of a 645?.I went to the shop, and the camera was still in its box, with all the seals. Then one day I found an advertisement: there was a seller in Milan, about one hour drive from where I live.
Ebay was literally full of Contax 645 bodies coming from Japan or US, but I resisted the temptation to buy one online from overseas because I wanted to verify its conditions and integrity. Here in Italy the Contax 645 is very hard to find: it was never very common because of it's high price, so I feared that all I could find was some tired and over-used ones from old photographers.