Category: Japan

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...

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...

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...

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...