Produced 1990-1997 Asahi Optical Corp, Japan
Film type 135 (35mm)
Picture size 24mm x 36mm
Weight 17.5oz (500g) body only; with SMC Pentax-A normal lens 23oz (653g)
Lens K-mount SMC Pentax-A 50mm 1:2-22
Filter size 49mm
Shutter electronic focal plane (metal)
Shutter speeds B, 1-1/1000
Viewfinder SLR
Exposure meter centerweighted TTL CdS with LED shutter speed readout in VF
Modes Aperture priority, Automatic exposure or Metered Manual modes (but no AF)
Battery manual just says 'two 1.5 volt silver-oxide or alkaline mini batteries' (I use 357)
Hotshoe accepts dedicated flash
Depth of Field preview button
Self-timer
DX auto film speed detection (ASA 25-1600 in 1/3 steps)
AND a single-stroke wind lever
The Yashica FR-II was an electronically-controlled 35mm film SLR cameramade by Yashica and produced between 1977-81.
Based on earlier FR I, the FR II dropped the manual exposure controls of that camera, with shutter speeds set automatically by the camera's metering system (except for Bulb and Flash settings). Equipped with the C/Y common bayonet mount, the FR-II could accept a variety of Yashica / Contax lenses and was targeted at the beginning photographer who did not want or need manual control of shutter speeds.
Type: TTL metering fully automatic exposure 35 mm SLR camera
Standard Lenses: Yashica Lens DSB 50 mm f/1.9, Yashica Lens ML 50 mm f/1.7, Yashica Lens ML 50 mm f/1A, Yashica Lens ML 55 mm f/1.2 (each with automatic diaphragm).
Lens Mount: Contax/Yashica mount. Negative Size: 24 x 36 mm
Shutter: Electronically Controlled horizontal run focal plane shutter. Shutter speeds automatically varied between 4 sec. to 1/1000 sec. at AUTO setting, Bulb setting (B) for long exposure and electronic flash synchronization setting (I) for manual operation.
Self Timer: Built-in lever type; releases in 7 sec.
Shutter Release: Feather-touch electromagnetic release release socket on camera body for auxiliary shutte; release.4www.butkus.org
Exposure Meter: TTL aperture-preferred fully automatic exposure control. Center-weighted full aperture light metering via SPD cell.
Exposure Check Button: Push Button/slide type; lockable with film advance lever slightly cocked.
Exposure Range: Between EV 1 - 18 with f/1.4 standard lens using ASA film.
Exposure Compensation: +2 EV
ASA Filrn Speed Settings: ASA 12 - 3200
Power Source: 6 V silver oxide battery (Eveready 544 Ucar 544, Mallory PX-28 or equivalent). Viewfinder: Through-the-lens reflex viewfinder; shows a field of approx 92% of the actual picture area with an image magnification of 0.87X. Shutter speeds indicated by pointer from 1/1000 sec. - 1 sec.
Focusing Screen: diagonal split-image centerspot with microprism collar.
Film Advance: single-frame advance via film advance lever with 140 degree full stroke, or multiple short ratchet stroke advance; frame count registers on exposure counter. Sequential film advance to 2 fps with optional Yashica Winder unit.
Film Rewind: via film rewind crank.
Back Cover: Standard back opens by lifting out on film rewind crank.
Other Features: Battery confirmation lamp; lens release button, memo holder, direct X contact accessory shoe.4www.butkus.org
Size and Weight: 142.5 x 87 x 50 mm 650 grams (body only)
Modelo
Aparentemente só existiu um modelo. Aminha tem o n.º de série 030769.
A lente é uma Yashica ML 55 mm f/1.2.
Pilha
A câmara é acompanhada de uma bateria UCAR Silver Oxide n.º 544 6V.
Esta fotografia é do exemplar que possuo. Câmara gentilmente oferecida por Ida Brandão. Características
The Zenit TTL is a 35mm film SLR camera made by KMZ and produced between 1977-85 with quantity of 1.632.212 units. It is also made by MMZ (BelOMO) and produced between 1980-82 with quantity of 1.000.000 units. It belongs to the long lasting Zenit series.
It was an upgraded version of the Zenit EM, adding stop-down TTL metering and a rewind crank in place of the knob. The meter is not voltage sensitive and will work fine with a 1.5 volt alkaline battery.
The viewfinder is blue-tinted and comparatively dim and small (cf. the 'brilliant'-type Zenit E). The central portion of the viewfinder screen has a micro prism in the middle surrounded by a clear matte area.
The camera was also sold by Cambridge Camera Exchange in the U.S. under the label Cambron TTL.
This camera is a Zenit-EM with a TTL meter. The meter is a Match the needle type with a circle between a + and a -. The Zenit-TTL was available with chrome top (several variants of early KMZ with TTL in Cyrillic and later BeLomo) and completely black.
A minha é uma PM4725 (ver Sovietcams): The most common version of Zenit-TTL camera. The new style of selftimer lever. Shutter advance, shutter speeds and film rewind heads are new style already. 4 screws in a lensmount already. An earliest so far known camera has s/n #78079809 (Molotok 2008). Some cameras have soviet "Sign of Quality" on an accessory shoe.
A minha tem o n.º de série 80204573, o que parece indicar que foi fabricada em 1980 pela KMZ.
Yashica Minister D, manufactured around 1963 in Japan. This 35mm rangefinder camera has a Yashica Yashinon 5 elements in 4 groups 4.5cm f/2.8 lens, helical focus 2.6 ft to infinity, Copal-SVL shutter (speeds 1 to 1/500 sec + B, M,X, delay action) and an uncoupled CDS exposure meter. It has a parallax corrected viewfinder.
The Minister D accepts 46 mm screw-in filters and 48 mm push-on lens hoods.
The Yashica Minister D rangefinder camera was manufactured in Japan beginning around 1963. The main change from the Yashica Minister III was the new CdS meter cell mounted below the rewind crank. However the light meter remained uncoupled from the exposure settings on the lens barrel. The Minister 700 is a variant of the same camera but with a faster, f/1.7 lens.
The light meter indicator measures light from 3 to 17 LV. To determine the EV, the scale on the meter can be adjusted to match the film ISO.
The lens barrel has an LVS ring to set the exposure level. The ring has LV numbers from 2 to 17. Turning the LVS ring alone adjusts the aperture ring automatically to maintain the same exposure level, giving this camera a kind of shutter-priority mode. Reaching the minimum or maximum aperture will then automatically turn the shutter ring too.
Manufacturer: Yashica
Date of Production: circa 1963
Type of Camera: Rangefinder camera
Film type: 35mm film
Lens: Yashinon 45mm f/2.8, focus range 70cm-infinity
Shutter: Copal-SVL leaf shutter
Shutter speed range: self-timer delay, B, 1-1/500s
Viewfinder: eye-level rangefinder with parallax correction
Flash: cold shoe with PC socket, X and M sync modes
Exposure Modes: manual, quasi-shutter-priority
Exposure Metering: uncoupled CdS
Focusing: manual
Film advance: manual lever with double-exposure prevention
Battery: Mallory PX-13 or 625 button cell for light meter
Weight: 675g
The bug eyed Yashica "Minister" III morphed into the Minister [IV] Model D in 1964 [ as near as we can tell ]. As hard as we look, we can't find anything that's not to like on this camera. It may be the perfect choice for a photo / journalism student because the price is right and it comes "loaded". The dependable Yashica film transport serves to support the strictly mechanical Copal SVL shutter. The Yashinon 45mm ƒ2.8 lens has an angle of view of 56º. Yes, there are faster Yashinons out there, but the fact is that film emulsion speeds have increased to such a degree while the grain structure has actually been reduced since the introduction of these cameras, that ASA 100 film with the ƒ2.8 lens, may be all that you will ever need. The lens mount accepts 46mm screw-in accessories.
Let's leave the editorializing behind and see what make this camera tick.
User selectable shutter speeds are: B, 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 15, 30, 60, 125, 250, 500. secs. The shutter can be set at M or X synch. One oddity is that the shutter must be set at X synch to use the self timer, regardless of whether you are using flash or not. A self timer with a nominal 8 sec delay is provided. The shutter button is threaded to accept a cable release. Electronic flash fires and synchs at any speed, great for exterior fill light.
The user selectable aperture ranges from ƒ16 to 2.8. Moving the aperture ring, changes the selected ƒ stop in step with the shutter speed dial.
To move only the ƒ stop, an extreme outer ring is provided. Changing the shutter speed is therefore a two step procedure. First move the Aperture and the Speed in tandem to the desired speed, then move the Aperture only to alter it's desired setting, using the outer ring. This might seem like a pain, but most of the time really speeds up any change you wish to make once the initial correct exposure has been determined.
The outer ring is numbered to coincide with the numbers on the Exposure Meter dial. Yashica's tried and true split image range-finder, self corrects for parallax. Manual focus is capable from 2.6 ft [0.8 meters] to Infinity, with clear graduations, in case it ever gets too dark to use the range-finder. The specific camera we are looking through, even as we write, has no problem focusing on distant areas of the room which are too dark to comfortably read a newspaper by. Try that with your SLR ! The independent built in exposure meter can be set within a range of ASA 10 to 400. There is no DIN scale. The exposure meter runs off a 625A battery, inexpensive and readily available, but not required to use the camera. The lack of a Hot Shoe is probably a plus, as this encourages the use of a hand grip / flash holder combo, the only way to get both a secure grip on such a small instrument and freedom from dreaded "red eye". A PC socket is mounted on the front left, and as with all front located photo flash connectors, care should be taken to make sure that the cable cannot dangle in front of the lens. A button with a red dot, located at the rear, extreme top left of the camera, activates the exposure meter. A plastic stud about halfway across the top rear, is just a dummy plug, for what may have been intended as a battery check during the design stage. This is common to several Yashica models. The loading door is opened by sliding a small lever on the left side of the base from "P" to "O", and while in the "O" position, pressing inward. It takes a little practice to get used to this. The tripod mount socket is secured to the frame of the camera by 4 screws on a mount beneath the cover plate. The thread stops short of bottom leaving enough space to work a wire tie under, and can be clearly seen through the hole as it makes it's way. What this means is that a portal exists for all sorts of contaminants to enter into the inner workings of the camera. We store our camera with a ¼ X 20 set screw inserted. Keeping the camera in a case would solve that, but of course you know that "carrying" cases are for just that purpose. Never store a camera, collectors knife or gun in a case, most particularly in a warm climate with salt air, but then everyone knows that, or do they? A small number of these cameras were produced under the marque, Minister 700 with an ƒ 1.7 lens. The only 700's that I have ever seen on offer were in the UK.
The Zorki-4 was the first of the Zorki cameras to be exported in mass to the west and beyond. Usually this camera came with a Industar-50 lens and in some cases with the Jupiter-8 lens. The first Zorki-4's were engraved, but this changed very quickly. Later versions of the 4 had painted on letters. Usually Zorki-4 has the cyrillic markings but it can also be found with roman letters.
he Zorki 4 was possibly the most popular of all Zorki cameras, with 1,715,677 cameras made by the KMZ factory in Krasnogorsk, Russia. The Zorki 4 was also the first of the Zorki cameras to be exported in large numbers to the west. It is a fully manual camera, and does not have a lightmeter. An additional lightmeter may be added by the hot shoe.
When the Zorki 4 rangefinder was introduced in 1956, its contemporaries included the Zorki S, Zorki 2S, FED 2b, Leica M3 (introduced two years before), Leica IIIg, Nikon S2, Canon VT, and Canon L1. The Zorki 4's production run outlasted all of them. When it morphed into the Zorki 4K by 1973, its contemporaries included the FED 4b, Leica M4 and M5, Nikon F2, and Canon F-1 and Canon Canonet QL 17 GIII.
The Zorki 4 is basically a Zorki 3S with a self timer. It retained all of the features and strong points of the 3S. The early bodies have a vulcanite body covering, engraved shutter speeds, and strap lugs. Later bodies have fabric covering and the shutter speeds (1/60 and 1/30 instead of 1/50 and 1/25) are silk-screened. By the mid-1960s, the strap lugs had disappeared.
Variants
The Zorki 4 came in 2 variants the original which uses a thumb wheel to advance to film and cock the shutter. The Zorki 4k included a wind lever for easier operation.
Operation
The Zorki 4 came in 2 variants the original which uses a thumb wheel to advance to film and cock the shutter. The Zorki 4k included a wind lever for easier operation.
Zorki-4 is a 35 mm rangefinder camera, manufactured by Krasnogorsky Mekhanichesky Zavod (KMZ) , (Красногорский механический завод = Mechanical Factory of Krasnogorsk), near Moscow, former USSR and produced between 1956-73, quantity 1715677. ЗОРКИЙ = Zorkiy, means Sharp Sight. Zorki-4 was possibly the most popular of all Zorki cameras. The Zorki-4 was also the first of the Zorki cameras to be exported in large numbers to the west.
When the Zorki-4 rangefinder was introduced in 1956, its contemporaries included the Zorki S, Zorki 2S, FED 2b, Leica M3 (introduced two years before), Leica IIIg, Nikon S2, Canon VT, Canon L1. The Zorki 4's production run outlasted all of them. When it morphed into the Zorki-4K by 1973, its contemporaries included the FED 4b, Leica M4 and M5, Nikon F2, and Canon F-1 and Canon Canonet QL 17 GIII.
The Zorki-4 is basically a Zorki-3S with a self-timer. It retained all of the features and strong points of the 3S. The early bodies have vulcanite body covering, engraved shutter speeds - 1s, 1/5, 1/10, 1/25, 1/50, 1/100, 1/250, 1/500, 1/1000 +B - and strap lugs. Later bodies (post ~1965) have fabric covering and the more modern base 2 logarithmic shutter speed progression: 1s, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/15, 1/30, 1/60, 1/125, 1/250, 1/500, 1/1000 and the figures are silk-screened. By the mid-sixties, the strap lugs had disappeared.
There are at least 32 types/versions of the Zoki-4 or as to Aidas Pikiotas there are 4 versions and 13 types.
Specifications
Lens: Zorki-4 was supplied with either a Jupiter-8 (ЮПИТЕР) 50mm f/2, or Industar-50 (ИНДУСТАР) 50mm f/3.5 lens; several other lenses were available. The lens is interchangeable, M39 screw mount
Focusing: Matching yellow rangefinder images in the finder, ring and scale on the lens, w/DOF scale
Shutter: Horizontal travelling focal plane, rubberized silk double cloth curtain, speeds: 1-1/1000 +B, setting dial on the top plate, lift and turn
Viewfinder: Coupled viewfinder/rangefinder, large and bright; Diopter adjustment lever: beneath the re-wind knob
Take-up spool: special, not captive, there is a small pin for attaching the film perforates on it
Engravings on the back of the top plate: KMZ logo and the serial number
Body: Metallic, cast aluminum; Weight: 687g
Serial no. first two digits correspond to the production year
As with other Soviet-era rangefinders, the shutter speed selector rotates when the shutter is released, and should not be changed until after the shutter has been cocked. If you change the shutter speed without cocking the shutter first, the setting pin can be broken when you advance the film and cock the shutter.
The latest known version of the export zorki-4 camera. Smaller viewfinder's window (18mm x 12.5mm or 0.7'' x 0.5''). "Made in USRR" markings silkscreened on the rear plate. May be fitted with black jupiter-8 lens.
Esta fotografia é do exemplar que possuo. Câmara gentilmente oferecida por Ida Brandão.
Características
The Ricoh TF-500 or TF-900 is a late 80s compact camera with autofocus and a 35 mm lens, switchable to 70 mm through a button on the top. Its electronics are quite advanced for its time, with an information-rich LCD on the top, indicating number of exposures available, if the film is a DX coded one (and, if so, what speed), and if exposure compensation has been activated. It has a continuous shooting mode, a self-timer and a backlight compensation button. The viewfinder indicates focusing zone using three symbols, a trait shared with the early generations of autofocus cameras but later abandoned. The date-back version was called the TF-500D/TF-900D. A rather hefty accessory 2x teleconverter, the TC-105, was also offered.
Wide-angle: 35 mm f/2,8; 4 elements/3 groups.
Tele: 70 mm f/5,6; 8 elements/6 groups.
Focusing: Autofocus with pre-focus ability, closest range 0,9 m.
Shutter: Programmed electronic shutter, 1–1/500 s.
Viewfinder: Albada type with bright lines, parallax correction marks and zone indication. Adjusted according to lens focal length. 0,7–0,38 x magnification, 84–87 % field of view.
Exposure range: EV 3–17 (wide), EV 5–17 (tele). +2 exposure adjustment.
Flash: Built-in pop-up flash, automatically activated with flash-matic exposure. Can be used as fill flash. GN 12. Reloads in 2–3 seconds.
Film speed: DX decoding from 64 to 1600 ISO. Non-DX films set at ISO 100.
Film advance: Easy loading, motor advance and rewind. Last bit of leader left out.
Power: 1 x DL223A/BR-P2DP 6 V lithium battery.
Dimensions and weight: 137 x 73 x 50 mm, 320 g (without battery).
The Beirette SL 300 was made by the East German company Woldemar Beier KG in Freital from 1970 well into 1980s, being one of the more advanced cameras of the SL System.
The SL 300 is an elegant viewfinder compact camera built to a fairly typical Beirette philosophy. It is equipped with the Albada type viewfinder and the E. Ludwig Meritar 45 mm 1:2.9 or 1:2.8 lens, a coated simple triplet with front cell focusing. The Priomat everset leaf shutter offers just three speeds - 1/30 s, 1/60 s and 1/125 s - plus B setting. Aperture is controlled with a convenient ribbed black plastic ring around the lens base, while shutter speed with a narrow plastic or metal ring at the front of the lens.
The camera is equipped with weather symbols helping in exposure setting. Shutter speed is to be set accordingly to the film speed (from 1/30 s for 25-30 ASA to 1/125 s for 100-125 ASA), while aperture appropriately for lighting conditions, from 1:16 (bright sun) to 1:5,6 (dark clouds).
The SL 300 uses standard 35 mm perforated film loaded in a spool-less SL-System cassette and takes 12 pictures of the 24x36 mm size on the SL film. The film is not rewound, but passed from one cassette into another. The film is advanced with a convenient slider on the camera back, coupled with double exposure safety blocking the shutter release button until the film is advanced for the next shot. The shutter release button is located on the body front, next to the lens, and - as with other Beirette models with the Priomat - needs a little bit of attention when pressed, to avoid camera shake. Cable release thread is placed fairly unusually - at the bottom of the shutter release button. The camera is fitted with a hot shoe for flash sync, while models with the 1:2.9 lens generally offer also a PC socket on the lens body.[1] An electronic flash can be synchronized at any shutter speed, while an X type flashbulb at 1/30 s only.
A simpler model of the SL 300 is called the Beirette SL 200. Both cameras are nearly identical, differences are in minor details only. The SL 200 offers a narrow metal aperture setting ring without weather symbols (while the fixed lens base is usually made of black plastic, resembling the SL 300 aperture ring) and is equipped with a cheaper reversed Galilean viewfinder instead of the Albada one. Early SL 200 are also fitted with an ingenious flash exposure calculator located at the bottom of the aperture setting ring. One just needs to set the shooting distance (values marked in red on the aperture ring) against the flash guide number (values marked in black on the lens body) to obtain the correct aperture.
Variations:
Both the SL 200 and SL 300 were apparently produced in three basic versions (in chronological order):
With bare metal body front, metal covered body sides, Meritar 45 mm 1:2.9 lens, Priomat shutter with PC socket and with manually reset frame counter - made from 1970 to 1972;
With body front partially covered with leatherette, body sides made of plastic, Meritar 45 mm 1:2.9 lens, Priomat shutter with PC socket and with automatically reset frame counter - made in 1972 or from 1972 to mid 1970s;
As the 2nd version but with Meritar 45 mm 1:2.8 lens and Priomat shutter without PC socket;[2]
There are also examples differing with some other details, e.g. with depth of field scale replaced by a translucent plastic ring, with style of the shutter speed and aperture rings etc., as well as transitional variants, mixing features of two different versions.
Specifications:
Film type: SL
Frame size: 24x36 mm
Lens: E. Ludwig Meritar 45 mm 1:2.9, later 1:2.8
Angle of view: 51 degrees
Shutter speeds: 1/30 s, 1/60 s, 1/125 s and B
Aperture range: 1:2,9 (1:2.8) - 1:22
Exposure range: 8 - 16 EV
Minimal focusing distance: 0,6 m
Flash sync with electronic flash: full
Flash sync with flash bulbs: 1/30 s
Film advance: manual
Tripod thread: 1/4"
Dimensions: ?
Weight: 280 g
Beirette was a name applied to a long sequence of compact 35mm viewfinder camera models, made from 1958 to the 1980s in East Germany by Beier. There were also some folding Beirettes, made from 1939, but production apparently disappeared during WWII. Although the name stayed the same, various tweaks in the design were made. It was the first camera that came out of the former East Germany that had a rapid advance lever. It is a very compact, little simple camera, and the first thing you notice is the beautifully designed shutter release button placed on the front. There are many models and versions during its very long manufacturing period. Flash sync, for example, moved from a pin of the lens barrel to a standard hot shoe, and a plastic shutter release button replaced the original metal one in the mid-1970s. Several versions of this camera were sold by Boots, for example the Boots Beirette BL, or branded as Revue for export markets.
Specifications
Type: viewfinder camera
Manufacturer: Kamerafabrik Woldemar Beier KG - Freital, partially private East German company
Year of launch: 1958
Film: 35mm
Lens: Meyer Trioplan 1:3.5/45mm or Ludwig Meritar 1:2.8/45mm
Shutter: Junior-II, Modell II or Priomat with speeds 30, 60, 125, and B
Viewfinder: optical, early versions were ocular shiftable for parallax correction
