Hannes
Established
Yashima OSANON Digital 750
It is not a DSLR, digital describes the way shutter speed is shown in the view finder. Red digital numbers showing the time in seconds from about 4 down to .001 for the shortest time with is 1/1000s.
It is a very rare camera, never heard of it before I got this good looking one which is fully working.
It is one of the very few brands which tried Auto Exposure for M42.
Similar like Pentax with the ES series or Fujica on the ST-901 they added an additional control to the lens to tell the electronic the selected aperture. I do not know if Pentax SMC lenses can be used on this body, but I doubt it.
It has electronic controlled Copal shutter with Auto exposure mode. It has manual mode too. As on Yashica TL electro AX in manual mode exposure meter is turned off. The display in the finder just displays the selected shutter speed. There are no markings on the speed dial.
There is almost no information about the camera in the internet, I found one blog in Japanese with images. The writer has the same unanswered questions I have after playing with the camera for some hours.
Shooting with the original lens in Auto mode works fine once you realize it does open aperture measurement with exposure lock. So if you change the aperture while shutter is half pressed time does not change. Release shutter and half press it again.
Using "normal" automatic lenses is no fun. There are controls to set the max aperture and the used aperture. You have to enter the max aperture once. Then set the used aperture on the lens and on the body every time you change aperture.
I'm not surprised that this was the only camera Yashima made before they went bankrupt.
The camera is working fine and I'm looking forward to results of the first roll.
Hannes
It is not a DSLR, digital describes the way shutter speed is shown in the view finder. Red digital numbers showing the time in seconds from about 4 down to .001 for the shortest time with is 1/1000s.
It is a very rare camera, never heard of it before I got this good looking one which is fully working.
It is one of the very few brands which tried Auto Exposure for M42.
Similar like Pentax with the ES series or Fujica on the ST-901 they added an additional control to the lens to tell the electronic the selected aperture. I do not know if Pentax SMC lenses can be used on this body, but I doubt it.
It has electronic controlled Copal shutter with Auto exposure mode. It has manual mode too. As on Yashica TL electro AX in manual mode exposure meter is turned off. The display in the finder just displays the selected shutter speed. There are no markings on the speed dial.
There is almost no information about the camera in the internet, I found one blog in Japanese with images. The writer has the same unanswered questions I have after playing with the camera for some hours.
Shooting with the original lens in Auto mode works fine once you realize it does open aperture measurement with exposure lock. So if you change the aperture while shutter is half pressed time does not change. Release shutter and half press it again.
Using "normal" automatic lenses is no fun. There are controls to set the max aperture and the used aperture. You have to enter the max aperture once. Then set the used aperture on the lens and on the body every time you change aperture.
I'm not surprised that this was the only camera Yashima made before they went bankrupt.
The camera is working fine and I'm looking forward to results of the first roll.
Hannes
renno61
Member
Various by John Henson, on FlickrRicoh XR7 a underrated camera
Various by John Henson, on FlickrNikon FE well used but still going strong.
kshapero
South Florida Man
Here is one of my SLR minions...
Confused. Looks like a fixed lens rangefinder. And all those lenses?
kshapero
South Florida Man
an awesome find. Never heard of this outfit.Yashima OSANON Digital 750
It is not a DSLR, digital describes the way shutter speed is shown in the view finder. Red digital numbers showing the time in seconds from about 4 down to .001 for the shortest time with is 1/1000s.
It is a very rare camera, never heard of it before I got this good looking one which is fully working.
It is one of the very few brands which tried Auto Exposure for M42.
Similar like Pentax with the ES series or Fujica on the ST-901 they added an additional control to the lens to tell the electronic the selected aperture. I do not know if Pentax SMC lenses can be used on this body, but I doubt it.
It has electronic controlled Copal shutter with Auto exposure mode. It has manual mode too. As on Yashica TL electro AX in manual mode exposure meter is turned off. The display in the finder just displays the selected shutter speed. There are no markings on the speed dial.
There is almost no information about the camera in the internet, I found one blog in Japanese with images. The writer has the same unanswered questions I have after playing with the camera for some hours.
Shooting with the original lens in Auto mode works fine once you realize it does open aperture measurement with exposure lock. So if you change the aperture while shutter is half pressed time does not change. Release shutter and half press it again.
Using "normal" automatic lenses is no fun. There are controls to set the max aperture and the used aperture. You have to enter the max aperture once. Then set the used aperture on the lens and on the body every time you change aperture.
I'm not surprised that this was the only camera Yashima made before they went bankrupt.
The camera is working fine and I'm looking forward to results of the first roll.
Hannes
kshapero
South Florida Man
SLR (Pentax MX) - TLR - RF : the Camera Trinity :angel:
Yes a lovely family.
kshapero
South Florida Man
Beautiful kit: FM3a and a 40 and a 90.
ronnies
Well-known
Fraser
Well-known
Another Nikon, off the big auction site I had an f90x in the mid 90s and it was quite an expensive camera from memory I think I paid £800 from Jessops, these cameras are stupidly cheap now even compared to F4s. They feel every bit as nice as the F4s as well.
18fbpicNikonf90x_01 by f4saregreat!, on Flickr
18fbpicNikonf90x_01 by f4saregreat!, on Flickr
p.giannakis
Pan Giannakis
petronius
Veteran
petronius
Veteran
Bumse
Member
Well, use to have a lens on it. Mostly Voigtländer Ultron 40mm slII or Zeiss ZF.2 28/2.
Mostly Voigtländer Ultron 40mm slII or Zeiss ZF.2 28/2.
tunalegs
Pretended Artist
A not at all pretty photo of my largest and oldest SLR out today to shoot a test roll after some tweaking:
Shoots 6x9 on 120.
Shoots 6x9 on 120.
Dinosaur
Member
mpaniagua
Newby photographer
Confused. Looks like a fixed lens rangefinder. And all those lenses?
Unless it was a joke that I missed (often do), it is indeed a interchangeable lens slr, Half Frame Olympus FT. Beautiful and handy camera. Lens are really sharp.
Got three models (F, FT and FV). Really like the FV better.
Indeed it looks like a rangefinder camera.
Regards
Marcelo
p.giannakis
Pan Giannakis
Larry H-L
Well-known
Got brass?
Sigma SD Quattro, Sigma 17-50mm f2.8
Sigma SD Quattro, Sigma 17-50mm f2.8
narsuitus
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Ricoh
Well-known
When and why did camera manufactures start putting electric motors in cameras to advance and rewind film. It just over complicates what previously was a more than adequate system with simple cogs and levers that could be serviced readily.
I could ask a similar question about autofocus c.f. manual...
I could ask a similar question about autofocus c.f. manual...