Look here for the only good review that I've ever seen:
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/contax-n-digital.shtml
The Contax N Digital was announced sometime in either 2000 or 2001, and
available in 2002, I think. It had a full-size, 6MP sensor and took all the
Carl Zeiss lenses.
In the end, it had major teething problems, inadequate software, power
consuption issues, and lots of minor issues. It was also very late and missed
it's ship dates repeatedly. In the end, it's more of a curiousity than a usable
camera, given the lack of third-party support. It was clearly ahead of it's
time and Kyocera's capabilities.
Skip
----- Original Message ---------------
Subject: [OM] Re: Sad Demise of an Historic Camera Line
From: Radovan Faltus <FaltusR@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 19:18:19 +0100 (CET)
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>
>Skip,
> tell me more about N1 digital, don't know anything.
>
> But by chance i downloaded all pdfs of their
>film bodies last weekend to read what's top
>of MF 35mm film bodies beside other great tools
>OM-3/4T(i), FM3A, R8/R9, historical R6.2, LX..
>
>Radek
>
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> It does mean another Japanese maker pulling back from the film market, as
> Contax/Kyocera screwed up badly with the N1 Digital, and thus missed the DSLR
> boat.
>
>> Skip
>
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