I do recall Leaf had communicated a resolution for Contax-related issues which involved a circuit board replacement in the Aptus itself. I did have some customers who took Leaf up on this and reported improvement, but there were others for whom the issue didn't completely clear up. I think this comes back to the camera itself. I had been told at some point that the Contax cameras had 2 different versions and the internal electronics were different and that was why some cameras worked without these issues, others did not. I actually can't recall where I heard this from, but that is all the information that I have up to this point.
Steve Hendrix
All I know is what I know. I have 4 contax bodies and with the Aptus 22 if I didn't count one thousand one, one thousand two, click, one thousand 1, one thousand 2 click, I'd get lines, green stuff or a jam.
One of the bodies was brand new and one of the last models made, the other three from different periods and times.
When I bought and put a pee 30 (later a pee 30 plus and a pee 21 plus) on the same bodies i didn't have to count anymore.
I sold the Aptus back right at the moment the fix came out and the new owner sent it to Leaf for the upgrade/repair/whatever it was called and he never had to count one thousand one, one thousand two, click.
Now in all fairness the pee thirty plus had some issues with half black and black frames that still come up from time to time. Not every frame, not even enough to really notice, but they can happen.
The only thing the bothered me about the aptus thing was I kept saying this was happening and kept being told by LOA nobody was reporting it, then boom, their was a fix for it.
Geraldo Rivera
