Name: TVS Digital
Brand: Contax
SKU: 39955
Rating: 3.6 (7 reviews)

titanium body is lightweight and very durable
Simple pro lighting and use tips
good-looking photos

Accesses a range of longer shutter times
lost photos due to a corrupted memory card
Sets the camera's clock and calendar

Sensor type: CCD
Sensor size: 7.144x5.358 mm
Effective pixels: 5 Mpx
Max resolution: 2560, 1920 px
Maximum aperture: 4.8
Autofocus: Contrast Detect (sensor), Single, Live View
Screen size: 1.6 in
Touch screen: no

Contax TVS Digital - Pros & Cons

titanium body is lightweight and very durable
Simple pro lighting and use tips
good-looking photos
nice and sharp from corner to corner
the front panel is practically smooth and pocket-friendly
The front panel is quite smooth
camera operation is quite efficient
Color was generally accurate
and dynamic range was good
Color saturation and accuracy were quite good overall
very workmanlike performance with better than average lens quality
sharpness and clarity and complete mitigation of
surprisingly good and extremely fun to use
The camera made amazingly noise-free images
it fits well enough
speedy
efficient menu access
traditional styling is clean and elegant
ambient and flash exposures were generally good
the menus are basic and easy to use
The nifty macro mode is very good
the Titanium Black version is beautiful
TVS Digital shows nice colors and crisp details here
the images are sharp with nice color and contrast
performance can be good to very good
good enough for most purposes
The TVS Digital is better in this respect
The pics are better than the T3 is capable of
you have a working TVS and loving it
the Contax TVS is beautiful

Accesses a range of longer shutter times
lost photos due to a corrupted memory card
Sets the camera's clock and calendar
TVS is just too expensive for the general market
Memory card corruption can happen with any card type and any camera manufacturer
both from internal shorts which melted the batteries so irrecoverable
TVS Digital is not a camera one would likely use for low light shots
scrolling through the ancient 2002 menu system can be a little confusing
Contax TVS Digital
Contax electronics are prone to failure
blurry shot
somewhat slow AF
The camera is not capable of shooting RAW images
The sounds can be shut off via the menus
became very ugly and often very stupid in their design
Very slow either writing to sd card
Poor light metering managment on dim light conditions
terrible LCD screen
there is no hotshoe or sync terminal for an external flash
Does image quality suffer in a zoom lens
shoot film cameras have no manual functionality
with flash on most medium format SLRs is never as easy as pointing and shooting
It took some getting used to
the manual focus knob is located where your thumb rests on
many 5-megapixel point-and-shoots
are severely noisy
not a terrible camera to use
The finder itself is dull

Contax TVS Digital - Technical Overview

	Poor	Average	Good	Excellent
Screen size	1.6 in Best: Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W710 Screen size: 6.7 in
Effective pixels	5 Mpx Best: Hasselblad H6D-100c Effective pixels: 100 Mpx
Max resolution	2560 x 1920 px Best: Leica M11 Max resolution: 9528 x 6328 px

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Contax TVS Digital - Full Specifications

Sensor type	CCD
Sensor size	0.28 in
Sensor photo detectors	5.0 Mpx
Effective pixels	5.0 Mpx
Image ratio w:h	4:3
Max resolution	2560 x 1920 px
Other resolutions	1600x1200 1280x960 640x480

Optical zoom	3.0 x
Digital zoom	4.0 x
Minimum aperture	2.8
Maximum aperture	4.8
Focal length equiv	35 - 105
Autofocus	Contrast Detect Single Live View
Manual focus	yes
Normal focus range	23.62 in
Macro focus range	5.91 in

Minimum shutter speed	1.0 s
Maximum shutter speed	1.0 s
Exposure compensation plus	2
Exposure compensation minus	-2
Expousure compensation steps	1/2 1/3
Built-in flash	yes
Flash modes	Auto Flash ON Flash OFF Redeye Reduction Slow Sync Fill-in Flash
External flash	no
Self-timer	yes

Body type	Compact
Colour of product	Grey
Environmentally sealed	no

Storage types	SD MMC

USB version	1.0
Remote control	yes

White balance presets	5
Custom white balance	yes
Image stabilization type	No
Uncompressed format	No

Screen size	1.6 in
Articulated LCD	no
Screen dots	85000
Touch screen	no
Live view	yes
Viewfinder	Optical

Maximum resolution	320 x 240 px

Weight	9.17 oz
Width	4.41 in
Height	2.36 in
Depth	1.3 in

Battery technology	Lithium-Ion

Timelapse recording	no
GPS	no
Orientation sensor	no

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