Yashica 35 MF

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The 35 MF is a viewfinder camera made by Yashica in 1977.[1] It has an unnamed, coated 38 mm f/2.8 lens, with scale focusing by zone symbols. Japanese collector 'Minocat' states that this is a Tessar-type lens.[2] The camera has programmed automatic exposure between 1/60 second at f/2.8 and 1/250 second at f/16, with a CdS meter cell mounted inside the filter ring.[2][3] A needle meter is displayed in the brightline viewfinder, showing what aperture will be used. Unlike later similar cameras, the shutter does not lock in low light.[2]

The camera has a built-in pop-up flash, the first Yashica camera with this feaure, according to 'Minocat';[2] the flash is raised from the top housing by turning the exposure mode ring of the lens, while pressing the silver button on the front of the camera. There is a self-timer on the front of the camera, to the right of the lens. The camera requires a 1.3V mercury cell to power the meter, and two AA batteries for the flash; 'Minocat' notes that it will expose at 1/60 second and f/2.8 without a meter battery.[2]

The 35 MF was followed in 1979 by the MF-1, which differs mostly in how the flash is deployed (by pressing its top), and in 1980 by the MF-2, which is of lower specification, having a fixed-focus f/4 lens.


Notes

  1. 35 MF at Sylvain Halgand's Collection Appareils.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 35 MF (several views of the camera, and notes in Japanese) at Minolook.
  3. Collection Appareils gives a different shutter-speed range, from 1/30 to 1/650 second.

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