The TVS was Contax’s flagship zoom in the ‘dentist’s camera’ category. When the TVS came out in 1994 most of the big camera makers were competing to outdo each other at the luxury end of the compact market. I had modest expectations which were mainly exceeded. I was feeling a Contax-shaped hole in my life after selling an underused T2 and knackered TVS-III a year or so previously. I bought my TVS on a whim from Ebay last year. I’ve found myself using mine a lot for casual photography so thought readers of 35mmc might be interested in hearing more. It’s nicely built, well designed and not outrageously expensive. The TVS does a very good job at pretty much all the things I want from a camera like this and it does those things in a pleasurable and tactile way. Its body is made out of Titanium, it has a really nice Zeiss Vario-Sonar zoom lens and a good range of sensible manual controls. The Contax TVS is a fancy compact zoom camera from the mid nineties.
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