Yashica Y35

Yashica Y35 with DigiFilm™ cartridge (35mm film box for comparison) image by bigalid (Image rights)

The Yashica Y35 is a digital camera that was launched in 2018 following a successful Kickstarter campaign launched in October 2017. The camera is styled heavily on the Yashica Electro 35 rangefinder but is much smaller and arguably more basic with fixed focus and aperture. The Kickstarter campaign was fully funded within four hours of launch and the project was backed to HK$10,035,296 by 6935 backers. The company behind the camera is 100 Enterprises International Group Company Limited, based in Hong Kong.

The camera has a deliberate retro operation. You need to wind on the camera between shots and the camera must be loaded with DigiFilm™ to work. The DigiFilm™ modules are APS sized units which determine characteristics of the final image. They can be hot swapped. There is no LCD and beyond the shutter and switching the DigiFilm modules, the only user control is a EV adjust.

Specifications

• Lens: 4 element
• Focal length 6mm
• Sensor - 14MP 1/2.5" CMOS
• Aperture - f/2 Fixed
• Exposure - Auto
• EV compensation - +/-2 stops
• Shutter - 1/30-1/6000
• ISO - Auto
• LCD - No
• Power - 2xAA
• Connection - Micro USB
• Storage - SD, SDHC up to 32Gb

DigiFilms™

Six DigiFilm™ modules were available at launch

• ISO200 Ultra Fine
• Black and White
• ISO1600 High Speed - high grain, low saturation
• 6x6 - Square frame
• Blue
• Unexpected 2017 (in my fancy) -washed out, undertone colours

Links

• Yashica Y35 at Yashica website
• Yashica Y35 Project at Kickstarter