Contax S :




Contax S

At the Leipzig Spring Fair of 1949, Carl Zeiss Dresden (East) introduced the world's first 35mm SLR camera body with a built-in Pentaprism, called the Contax S. The S came from the word Spiegelflex or mirror reflex, but there was no engraved S on the camera. It was a revolutionary eye-level fixed pentaprism viewfinder, as the first modern 35mm SLR..