Take advantage of my Memorial Day sale with 15% off.
Lots more can be found in our shop at http://www.ccstudio.2380.com
Thanks – Chris
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May our world become more peaceful. Stay safe everyone. – Chris & Carol
A new house on the beach on Amelia Island.
First images from my new to me old Nikon D800.
Memorial Day Weekend traffic on Amelia Island at the beach.
Can you spot the lizard?
Thanks for stopping by! – Chris
Camera: Nikon D800 with Nikon AF Nikkor 80-200mm f/ 2.8D zoom lens.
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Yashica marketing used the ‘Yashica Sailor Boy’ and his new camera for a deck of playing cards.
From 1981, with the introduction of the new Yashica Auto Focus Motor (also known as the Yashica 5 Star Auto Focus Motor) 35mm compact point & shoot camera, came this version of their marketing icon. Here the ‘Sailor Boy’ is depicted as the nursery rhyme character ‘Wee Willie Winkie’ telling the world about Yashica’s newest camera.
More about the camera can be found in a previous post.
Here’s another post with a detailed view of the various Yashica cameras in the early 1980s.
Thanks for stopping by and have a beautiful (and safe) day! – Chris
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This is the earliest brochure to feature the complete Canon F-1 system at the time. The back of the brochure has Bell & Howell as the distributor in the US and Canada.
The brochure is in near-full-mint new condition, except for a small dealer date stamp on the lower back cover. There is a very slight bend on the lower left of
the cover that is barely noticeable. The binding (staples) are tight, and there is
no writing, no missing pages, and no folded or dog-eared pages. It’s clean
and bright with no musty smells.
Perfect for your collection and a great way to enhance your Canon F-1.
The brochure is an in-depth introduction to the camera, including its features, technology, and applications. There are illustrations of the camera
and its accessories, tables of specifications, an exploded diagram of the camera,
and detailed guides to the use of the camera and accessories. There are also numerous color photos taken by the camera and its associated FD & FL lenses.
It’s a large 8 x 11 format and has 18 pages. The actual publication date is November 1970 – English Edition printed in Japan.
It’s available in my Etsy camera shop at http://www.ccstudio2380.com
Thanks for stopping by! – Chris
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Thanks for stopping by and have a happy, healthy, and safe day! – Chris
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I found this pinback in a camera bag from the late 1970s. It was a wonderful goal then and a worthy goal now especially in light of the pandemic.
Random pretty flower.
Have a great (and safe) day and many thanks for stopping by! – Chris
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For the domestic market in Japan, this was what you got for your ¥50,700 ($301 USD) plus an extra 2,000 JPY for the case. No zoom lens and no true user inputs except for the flash. What you did get was a sophisticated Carl Zeiss Tessar f/ 3.5 35mm lens with the famous T* coated optics. This is a true point and shoot camera designed to take the highest quality images just short of owning an SLR.
The T-D (date) model weighs about 356 grams without film but with the heavy 2CR5 lithium 6v battery installed. The date function is powered by a CR2025 battery but at this point, I haven’t installed one as the date function only goes to 2019. The camera automatically sets the ISO for DX coded films from 50 to 1,600. There’s a cover over the lens that opens when the shutter is pressed and then slowly closes over the lens again. It looks to be semi-transparent from what I can tell. Not sure how you would keep the cover open to clean the lens.
Not much in the way of user input except to kill the flash. There’s an analog film indicator, simple on-off slide switch and a self-timer switch. No LCD screen to fail over time (which is a good thing).
I’m pretty excited to give the camera a go on a walkabout and to eventually compare its performance to my Yashica L AF with similar features. See my review and test of the Yashica L AF here.
Thanks for stopping by and be sure to check out my camera shop on Etsy at http://www.ccstudio2380.com and on eBay at https://www.ebay.com/str/auntfotosphotography
Chris
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I finally found the “Fountain of Youth” only to find it closed!
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Scenes from a day trip to St. Augustine, Florida a long time ago.
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Chris
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Just to the right of the viewfinder, this Yashica Minister III has a seldom seen marking indicating that the camera was in some way processed in Hong Kong. Image courtesy of Graham Buxton-Smith.
BTW, the serial number decodes to 8 = 1968, 3 = March, 1816 = number 1,816 made that month. The “H” does not necessarily indicate Hong Kong.
Minister III from the mid-1960s. Image courtesy of Graham Buxton-Smith. The camera on the left has the Hong Kong markings.
Apparently, before Yashica operated a full-scale factory in Hong Kong it appears that they may have sent partially completed cameras there for final assembly. Usually, it would have “Assembled in Hong Kong” or simply “Hong Kong” on the camera. I’ve seen “assembled in Hong Kong from parts made in Japan” before but not engraved anywhere on the camera body. My best guess is that Yashica was attempting to save on labor costs or import fees by doing so. By the way, the “H” before the serial number in this example may not indicate Hong Kong. It’s been reported that some cameras have been spotted with the “H” but engraved Japan. More investigation is needed.
Courtesy of Paul Sokk at http://www.yashicatlr.com
By 1986 Yashica stopped making the Yashica Mat 124G. Notice that at the top of this address list it says Kyocera Corporation vice Yashica. Yashica was acquired by Kyocera in 1983.
So, not a significant discovery but an interesting one to a Yashicaphile. Has anyone else spotted a Yashica with “Processed in Hong Kong” before? If you’ve had please share that info with me here or at ccphotographyai@gmail.com – Thanks, Chris
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Chasing Classic Cameras with Chris 