The Contax i4R is a

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Kyocera is a Japanese multinational ceramics and electronics manufacturer headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. It was founded as in 1959 by Kazuo Inamori and renamed in 1982. It manufactures industrial ceramics, solar power generating systems, telecommunic ...

. The i4R was announced on 28 September 2004. Its

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was one of the more unusual of Contax's designs. Kyocera released it to the

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in November, 2004 with a price of 299 GBP. The i4R features a

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T* 6.5mm f/2.8

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. Its image pickup device is a

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with 4.19 × 10⁶ gross

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s. The i4R is

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-compliant. Besides its usually small size for the time, its other unusual feature was its ability to focus down to about two inches (five centimetres). Kyocera announced its plans to discontinue the Contax brand in April 2005, and exited all camera activity in September 2005.

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