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The Yashica FX-D 100 seems to be modelled on the FX-7 Tremendous SLR offered by the unique Yashica firm (and reportedly manufactured by Cosina) within the early Eighties. Picture: Yashica |
In all the thrill and chatter across the launch of Fujifilm’s X half, we missed the quieter announcement of one other digital digicam with a movie advance lever: the Yashica FX-D 100. This has now been joined by two sister fashions, the FX-D 300 and FX-D S300. All three cameras are being funded by way of Kickstarter.
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The FX-D 100 and FX-D 300 have a blanking plate the place you’d anticipate a viewfinder. Picture: Yashica |
All three cameras are designed to roughly resemble the unique Yashica FX-7 Tremendous movie SLR, however a good bit smaller. All three are constructed round very small sensors. The least-expensive FX-D 100 mannequin has an optical zoom lens, whereas the costlier FX-D 300 and S300 have a set lens with a hoop across the lens controlling digital zoom / cropping. Solely the most costly of the three fashions has an digital viewfinder, the opposite two have a blanking plate over the again of the finder hump.
| FX-D 100 | FX-D 300 | FX-D S300 | |
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| MSRP (‘Early hen’ worth) |
$359 |
$549 ($339)* |
$679 ($459) |
| Pixel depend | 13MP | 50MP | 50MP |
| Sensor dimension | Kind 1/3 (17mm²) |
Kind 1/1.56 () |
Kind 1/1.56 () |
| Lens | 3.45-10.5mm F1.6-2.8 (25-mm equiv) |
5.68mm F1.8 (24mm equiv) |
5.68mm F1.8 (24mm-equiv) |
| Stabilization | No | Sure, 3-axis | Sure, 3 axis |
| EVF | No | No | 1.44M dots (800x600px) |
| Focus choices | MF / AF | AF / Full-timeAF | AF / Full-time AF |
*Marketing campaign ended
The FX-Ds are the second era of digital cameras to be offered by way of Kickstarter, following the revival of the Yashica title on the Y35 digicam in 2017, which raised over $1M on the platform. That digicam, which additionally married a small sensor and movie simulation idea to a design that visually mimicked a film-era Yashica digicam, was met with critiques that ranged from crucial to scathing.
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The FX-D 300 and S300 have a set 24mm equal lens that may crop to ship the 60mm equiv discipline of view listed on the entrance of the digicam. All three FX-D fashions have flip-forward LCDs. Picture: Yashica |
Considerably concerningly, the FX-D 100’s lens specs are a match for the corporate’s Metropolis 100 mannequin, which once more, hasn’t been effectively acquired. Each ‘300’ fashions use the identical 50MP sensor and 24mm equiv prime lens utilized by the upcoming Metropolis 300, which guarantees a 24-60mm equiv vary, by cropping into an 8MP area to provide the 60mm equal view.
Not like the Y35, all three FX-D cameras have a (fold-forward) rear display screen and allow you to select between movie simulation modes with out having to fit a ‘movie’ module into the again of the digicam. All three cameras embody six digital filmstocks:
- Ruby 60s
- Sapphire 70s
- Yashica 400
- Golden 80s
- Mono 400
- Black and White 400
The corporate says it is engaged on constructing Uncooked functionality into the FX-D 300 fashions.
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The FX-D S300 has an 800 x 600px (1.44M dot) viewfinder. Picture: Yashica |
The Yashica title seems to at present be owned by a Hong Kong firm known as JNC Datum Tech, which is owned by the MF Jebsen Group. It has been used for a variety of merchandise, together with being licensed to Kickstarter movie module firm, I am Again.
It is a barely completely different state of affairs to Kodak, the place the post-bankruptcy stays of the unique Eastman Kodak firm nonetheless controls who will get to license and use its model title.
