My Contax was an SLR. I don't remember the model, because it was so long ago, but it featured a fine, German lens that with Kodachrome 25 gave me execellent results. A friend of mine who did a lot of work for National Geographic called me one day raving about a new Nikon, so I went out and spent a couple of grand on it, a Nikor lens and a flash unit that cost as much as most cameras. The Nikon was a good camera, and the first to feature flash-fill without all the calculation, but it really never took pictures better than that Contax, and most of the time not as good.