The CONTAREX book - by Pierpaolo Ghisetti + Marco Cavina

kds315* · Expire: 2021-03-09

I got informed by my friend Marco Cavina that he and Pierpaolo Ghisetti will present their new CONTAREX book on Milano, June 27 at Galleria OPENMIND, Via Rovello, 5, 20121 Milano at 19:30 hours.

The book is about the Contarex system, manufactured by Zeiss Ikon Stuttgart from 1959 to 1972, with optics by Carl Zeiss in Oberkochen. It is loaded with 215 pages in A4 format (210 × 297mm, 8.27 × 11.69") with 220 images in full color, 115 drawings of optics, many of them also with all the information of the glass types used and 50 original MTF test charts from Carl Zeiss from that time.

Authors are Pierpaolo Ghisetti, a famous camera collector and Marco Cavina, active photographer and technical expert on optics. Publisher and editor is the well known Milano camera dealer Ryuichi Watanabe.

From that day onwards the book will be available for sale also, price is set to be EUR80 as far as a I know.

http://blog.analogica.it/analogica-it/2012/06/pierpaolo-ghisetti-e-marco-cavina-presentano-il-libro-contarex/

Here the official invitation:

And here the two authors going through some pre-prints of book pages, also showing the Italian/English text in two columns (left(right) as well as the high quality color scans and graphics.

(c) Marco Cavina, used with permission

Orio · Expire: 2012-12-04

Thanks Klaus for the info!

kds315* · Expire: 2021-03-09

Most welcome Orio!

As I know how much time and effort and dedication our friend
Marco has invested in that book, it will be great for sure! I'm
looking forward to receiving my copy soon!

Orio · Expire: 2012-12-04

I opened my mail and found Marco's email too. I'm not sure to understand if the presentation is open to public or not.
If open, I will try to go there and take some photos.

kds315* · Expire: 2021-03-09

That would be great Orio! I wish I could be there too, but it's too short notice for me unfortunately.

Orio · Expire: 2012-12-04

I really would have liked to partecipate, but the temperatures (almost 40°C) disheartened me from taking the train.
Sad

This heatwave really lets me measure how age influences the life. When I was 20 I would have gone there no problem.
Now, big heat really knocks me down. Maybe it's also the heart pills, don't know.
I am not taking photographs since two weeks, this is very unusual for me in the summer, when I normally photograph
almost everyday.
I hope to meet Marco in september at the used camera fair, so we can talk about the book.

LucisPictor · Expire: 2013-12-03

From what we can see in the photos, that books looks gorgeous!

kds315* · Expire: 2021-03-09

Here is teh ISBN number if someone is interested in that book (mine is on its way...)

kds315* · Expire: 2021-03-09

Here some more images.... (From Marco Cavina, used with permission)

My signed copy is on its way and I'm quite excited to have it soon!

Spotmatic · Joined: 18 Aug 2008 Posts: 4045 Location: Netherlands

Wow! One should convince them to have the book translated in English (or German, which would be very suitable regarding the subject). Anyway such initiatives must be supported!

Orio · Expire: 2012-12-04

The book is already bilingual (Italian-English).
You can buy it here: http://tinyurl.com/cykjaxx

kds315* · Expire: 2021-03-09

Thanks Orio! I got mine yesterday. What a wonderful book and such great
attention has been payed to details, MTF-charts, lens drawings, ...