I’m not one to hate on the CCD and the colour/tone combination that they produce, in fact I’m a fan it’s why I loved my Epson R-D1s so much! But, to my mind people can’t be out there hunting this camera down for it’s tech specs, they’re so out of date it’s laughable. The little TVSd is a pretty well featured fun box from 2002, even with it’s tiny1/1.8″, 5 Megapixel CCD sensor ( that’s an above 4.5x crop factor, baby) it can pump out some glorious looking files. Digital is just going to be WAY easier for you. It’s not a terrible camera to use, in fact it’s actually pretty good! I get the nostalgia factor and that for a lot of people film is just way too costly and fiddly of a venture, especially if you’re a mid-twenties hipster shooting your friends drinking coffee and smoking. I don’t really know, maybe a combination of brand hype and nostalgia. As of writing this piece in mid-2018, the price of the lowly Contax TVS Digital (TVSd) has now skyrocketed to $300-600 or more if it’s a black model – I snagged mine for $100 about three or four years ago before all the T2/3 hootenanny really spun off the planet.īut, why is a 16 year old digital camera so desirable? In recent years though anything with a Contax badge on it has drastically increased in price, due largely to the now infamous and much desired T2 and T3 film compacts (and Kendal Jenner FFS). I bought it on a whim a few years back because I wanted a little compact camera I could beat up, but something that was nice to use and wouldn’t break the bank.
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Boasting a massive 1/1.8″, 5 Megapixel CCD sensor this little titanium box was one of the last models pumped out of the Kyocera factories sporting the Contax badge. In 2002 I was just barely talking to girls and trying to figure out how to pass my Math classes, so this little Contax was WAAAAY off my radar when it was released. The Contax TVS Digital is a high-end compact camera within the legendary T range and the only digital model of the group.