Canon F-1 with Canon FD 80-200mm zoom lens on Kodak Kodachrome.
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High-quality 1:12 scale Tamiya model. Photographed with a Canon F-1 with Canon FD 24mm f/2.8 lens on Kodak Kodachrome. Assembled and photographed at my home in Honmoku, Yokohama in 1979.
Tamiya models were always the best! The only thing I left off was the red air dam stripe and I swapped the Martini decal for a Porsche decal above the grill.
These kits unassembled and still new in the box go for around $350 to $450 USD.
The original cover art for the model.
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Interesting street scene captured these young ladies interacting with the always helpful police. Taken near the prestigious Motomachi shopping street in central Yokohama. Canon F-1 with Canon FD 80-200mm lens on Kodachrome 64 film. It’s really hard to believe that this is now 40-years ago.
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There’s so little information about this wonderful camera on the web, I hope this post helps a bit for those interested in this format and camera.
It’s not as basic as it seems. This camera was released for the Japanese domestic market in December 1991 and listed for 15,800 JPY (about $123 USD).
It’s a dedicated panorama format 35 mm film camera (13 x 36 mm actual image size). The panorama setting is not adjustable.
1. Opens and closes the lens cover and when closed locks the shutter button.
2. Flash on/off switch.
3. Fujinon 28 mm f8 glass lens – 3 elements in 3 groups. The fixed focus lens focuses from 1.5 m to infinity switchable to landscape mode.
4. CdS light receiver.
5. Two position ISO selector switch.
6. Landscape Mode Switch “Far-view Mode Lever”.
7. Albada bright frame finder.
8. Shutter release button.
9. Manual strobe/flash.
The aperture is “automatically” adjusted for lower light levels and the camera will give a low-light warning in the viewfinder. It’s been reported by a Japanese blogger that the aperture was capable of f4 to f16 but that is not backed up by data from Fujifilm that I can find.
The shutter is fixed to fire at 1/100th of a second.
I’ve scanned a few pages from the instruction pamphlet (below).
Take notice of the clearly marked “CdS light receiver” vice exposure meter. It could be just a difference in the machine translation from what was meant in the original Japanese text.
Specifications from Fuji confirms that the lens is a Fujinon f8 28 mm wide angle with glass optics – 3 elements in 3 groups (you’ll find that info in line 4).
Unboxing a classic.
This camera set is available in my Etsy studio shop at http://www.ccstudio2380.com
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These are available at http://www.ccstudio2380.com
Full descriptions and additional pictures can be found at http://www.ccstudio2380.com
Yashica 8mm film movie camera from 1961. Fast f1.8 Yashinon zoom lens. The camera sold for around $140. in the early 1960s.
Complete kit. BTW, the little hang tag from LIFE depicts a cover from 1947.
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Here’s a bit of throwback photo gear from my collection – it’s time to pass it along. This one is very lightly used and was actually on display with one of my 1970s Yashicas. It’s about 1.5 inches wide and about 36 to 40 inches long as it is adjusted now so it’s a nice long camera strap that’s perfect as a neck or shoulder strap.
It has nice leather accents and the metal clips are shiny and bright.
Great colors and an awesome vintage pattern.
It holds two film canisters (film cans if you’re going old school) and the underside is a soft suede-like material.
It’s available in my studio shop at http://www.ccstudio2380.com – lots of other neat items in the shop at 10% off too! – Chris
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Yashica’s best SLR – ever!
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These bits may seem like no big deal but if you collect hard to find items in their original boxes and cases it’s rewarding when it all comes together.
Nicca-Hinomaruya Y2 filter and lens hood. Both are from at least 1955 but likely earlier.
Hinomaruya was the exclusive distributor of Nicca cameras and accessories.
Using a Y2 yellow filter is a must when shooting with black and white film. It will generally darken a blue sky and provide more contrast between the sky and clouds. It can also help add better definition when shooting landscapes where haze and light atmospheric fog is present. When using a Y2 filter on a camera such as this one you must compensate by a factor of two when taking your meter readings. If you’re using an SLR with TTL metering then the camera’s built-in meter will compensate for you.
Nicca Type 33 sales brochure showing a slightly different box for the hood and for a color filter along with the older style filter box. The Type 33 was one of the last Nicca cameras produced by the company and was released in 1958 so this would represent the last style of filter and hood boxes. As with everything else, these items were distributed by Hinomaruya.
Studio Camera: Fujifilm X-A10
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But with that said it’s important to “take it all in ” from all sources and to glean whatever good bits that it does offer. Yashica wasn’t a company that seemed to be all that interested in dates anyway. Some of the dates were more than likely dates that were recorded in Japan and may have marked the actual, formal date that the event was finalized. There’s also the possibility that if this brochure was put together in the US there may simply be some instances where meanings were lost in translation.
This excerpt is taken from the Yashica publication ‘Yashica A New Horizon’
It does use the term “highlights” when summarizing the events.
Yashica’s new (1974) headquarters building in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo.
Published in early 1975, this brochure was primarily focused on camera dealers located in the United States.
I’ll be sharing additional bits from this interesting brochure over the coming weeks. Previous posts can be found here and here.
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