Yashica Samurai X4.0
camera back and battery port opened |
The Yashica Samurai X4.0 is a fully automatic half-frame autofocus SLR camera made by Kyocera. Its unique design makes it the optimal still camera for people who never made photographs but know to handle a modern compact video camera. It's designed for one-handed operation. It makes exposures in half 35mm frame format, allowing to make 72 instead of 36 images on one film. It offers 4 exposure programmes: autoflash, daylight, night, and night flash. Time and date can be enlighted onto the film.
still camera in camcorder style |
specifications
- Type: Autofocus Zoom SLR
- Manufacturer: Kyocera
- Launch: maybe 1988
- Film: 35mm film with speeds 50 to 3200 ASA
- Lens: 1:3.8-1:4.8/25mm-100mm Zoom
- Shutter: speeds 3 to 1/300 sec.
- Focusing: TTL phase difference detecting autofocus
- Viewfinder: SLR finder with shifter for diopter adjustment
- Exposure: programmed automatic
- Film advance: motorized
- Flash: built-in, alternate flash can be shifted into the hot shoe on the camera top
- Dimensions: 74×125×146mm
- Weight: 690 g without 2CR5 6V battery
the Samurai 4.0 is a halfframe SLR: two images fit on the 24x36mm frame of a common 35mm exposure |