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Yashica launches their first camera in over 10 years – the digiFilm Camera Y35

By Marcus Wong - on 11 Oct 2017, 12:36pm

Yashica launches their first camera in over 10 years – the digiFilm Camera Y35

 

It’s been more than 10 years since we’ve last heard from Yashica, so you’d easily be forgiven for thinking they’d faded away. According to this Kickstarter page though, they’re back; and with a brand new camera too.

The Yashica digiFilm camera Y35 looks like the Yashica Y35 camera of old, but saves images taken to an SD card. What makes it different from every other digital camera out there though, is that taking pictures with the camera requires you to load a “film” cartridge that affects the ISO sensitivity, colors,  and even format of the images captured.

For example, there’s a 120 format cartridge that gives you 6X6 format color images, and an ISO 400 B&W cartridge that obviously gives you high contrast black and white images with the equivalent of ISO 400 film sensitivity. Apparently there’s even a film grain effect applied, so the images should come out look just like they would if you use actual film.

You’re meant to wind your “film” after every shot using the film winder on the camera, and there’s no rear display or delete button, so the only way you can review your images is to take out your SD card and look at them on a computer when you get back home.

As Yashica puts it on their Kickstarter page:

“The world seen from the viewfinder of Y35, might be a little slower, a little prettier, transporting us back to a time when we all pay a little bit more attention, and causing us to care each shot before clicking the shutter – because it must solid the first tie or the moment is lost. Every Y35 image is real, carefully captured in its true moment.”

The camera measures 100 x 64 x 28 mm, and uses a 1/3.2” CMOS sensor that takes 14MP photos. It has a viewfinder, as well as an f/2.8 35mm lens with a minimum focusing distance of 1m. It runs on two AA batteries, takes SD card for storage, and has microUSB connectivity for data transfers.

The various reward tiers for pledges on Kickstarter are in the image below:

Finally, here's the promotional video for the camera.

Source: Kickstarter, MirrorlessRumors.com

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