After multiple comments online questioning the specs and validity of the Yashica digiFilm project (currently at $1,079,761 raised), a new update was posted on Kickstarter together with some sample photos and videos showing a prototype camera: We have just uploaded 4 videos of our team taking pictures with the Y35 working prototype and those sample pictures taken […]
The “unprecedented” Yashica digiFilm camera is already close to raising 1 million dollars on Kickstarter just two days after it was started and with another 38 days to go (backed by almost 5,000 people so far). This will make the Yashica Kickstarter one of the best crowd-funded photo gear campaign ever. I will just put […]
A few hours ago the previously rumored Yashica camera was listed on Kickstarted and already has almost reached its financing goal of $100,000. Here are the details on the new Yashica digiFilm camera (the camera uses digiFilm cartridges): Yashica digiFilm camera specifications:
Yashica published a new video announcing that their new “unprecedented” Yashica camera is coming to Kickstarter on October 10th at 8pm JST | 1pm CEST | 11am UTC | 7am EST:
Here are some observations by a reader (thanks Mistral75) on the “unprecedented” new Yashica camera that is rumored to launch on Kickstarter in October: Having a second look at the various videos posted by Yashica on their YouTube channel, I realised that the rangefinder camera shown in the two first videos (‘YASHICA – Peep into […]
An update on my previous post from last week: Yashica has a new teaser video for the “The Unprecedented Camera by YASHICA”. It seems that a new camera will be launched on Kickstarter in October under the slogan “Expect the Unexpected”. Here is the new video:
Some additional information on that Yashica “comeback” – a company in Hong Kong currently owns the Yashica brand and they currently sell smartphone lenses:
This is an interesting development – one month ago the Japanese camera brand Yashica (www.yashica.com) published a sequence of teaser videos indicating a potential comeback with the slogan “Peep into our Coming Chapter” (check some of the old Yashica cameras on eBay):
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