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January 29, 2022

Yashica FX-2

Yashica FX-2 Yashica FX-2 user manual Yashica FX-2 current value The Yashica TLR lineup had followed a traditional pattern, evolving in technology and style as other manufacturers. In 1983 Yashica was swallowed by Kyocera, a hi-tech, we-do-it-all corporation, and the scope had shifted from ‘optical products as an objective’ to ‘optics included in other products’. The FX cameras were the...

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January 12, 2022

Yashica FR-II

Yashica FR-II Yashica FR-II user manual Yashica FR-II current value Yashica’s third group of compact SLR, the FR and FX cameras, came to compete with the Canons and the Pentax SLRs. The Yashica RF was first in this line, a shutter priority, a stripped-down version of the popular Contax RTS. It was followed by the FR-I, an aperture priority or...

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January 10, 2022

Yashica FX-3 Super 2000

Yashica FX-3 Super 2000 Yashica FX-3 Super 2000 user manual Yashica FX-3 Super 2000 current value The best thing I can say about a camera is that there is nothing to say about it. I go through quite a few (many) cameras and need to decipher the designer’s thoughts and ideas. In some cases, it is easy; in others, it...

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January 9, 2022

Yashica FX-D

Yashica FX-D Yashica FD-X current value Yashica FD-X user manual There is also a SE version. Could not find any reference to it, assume it is Special Edition. Most past camera makers were identified with a particular camera style.  Zeiss and Leitz with rangefinders, Pentax with SLR, Cannon with rangefinders and SLRs, and so forth. Leitz made SLR cameras, but...

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January 4, 2022

Pentax K

Pentax K Pentax K current price Tower 29 current price Pentax k user manual The first of the Pentax classic-looking SLR was the 1957 ‘AP’, sold in the US as ‘Tower 26’. It was quickly renamed Pentax S, different only by some cosmetic changes and speed settings – 125 vs. 100 and 250 vs. 200. At the heels of the...

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January 1, 2022

Pentax S3 / H3

Pentax S3 / H3 In the late 1950s and early 60s, Pentax introduced a camera plethora, hardly distinguished from each other. One model stands out, the S3. Introduced in 1959 and came to market a year later, the S3 is not a single model but a handful of variants. The overall appearance is similar, but there are slight modifications. The...

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December 30, 2021

Pentax S1a / H1a

Pentax S1a / H1a Pentax S1a  user manual Pentax S1a current value In the early post-war years, the Japanese camera industry navigated its way into the mainstream. The market was going towards a single-lens reflex in a rangefinder size body. The Germans led the way, with the Japanese in tow: Canon after Leica, Nikon after Contax, and Pentax chose Praktina....

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December 26, 2021

Pentax ES II

Pentax ES II Pentax ES II current value Pentax ES II user manual In the early 1970s the (Japanese) camera industry came to a level field, where save for the name most cameras offered similar specs. Some manufacturers such as Petri, Miranda, Topcon, and so just gave up, will not know if it was quality or marketing. Others were looking...

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December 19, 2021

Polaroid 900 Electric Eye

Polaroid 900 Electric Eye Polaroid 900 Electro Eye user manual Polaroid 900 Electro Eye current value I collect cameras, with one exception – Polaroids. They do indeed take pictures but have no soul. Everywhere you look, they are there. On camera store shelves, on eBay listings, in market stalls. I long gave up making sense of them as they all...

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November 28, 2021

Olympus XA family

Olympus XA family model list About four years ago, I drove to Peterborough to pick up two Olympus Pen F. The seller suggested he has a few other cameras, which I always love seeing. It ended with an apple crate full of odds and ends, with which I happily drove home. A week later, the seller called, suggesting even more...

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