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Serial Number: Cam0214
Type:
Camera
Manufacturer:
Japanese company Yashica
Country of Origin:
Japan
Production Period:
1966-1990
Approximate Price:
Reference:
Status: Display
Description:
This is a vintage G-Yashica electro 35 mm (GSN 1971-1977) manufactured in the year 1966-1977 made in Japan The Yashica Electro 35 was one of the most popular consumer 35mm cameras of the 1960s and 1970s. The Yashica Electro 35 is a solid metal camera. It has a big, clear viewfinder and rangefinder. It has a much clearer finder than the Nikon manual rangefinders of the 1950s that fetch astronomical prices from geriatric collectors. The Yashica Electro 35 is an aperture-priority camera. Pick your aperture, and the Yashica Electro 35 selects the shutter speed, from 1 500 up to thirty seconds or more. It has a silent electronic leaf shutter. It s quieter and has less vibration than any of the clumsier focal-plane shutters of Leica and Nikon rangefinders, and no flipping mirrors like every DSLR. The only gotchas are that the Electro 35 has no auto-exposure lock and it s an almost all-auto camera. It only has three manual shutter speeds, and that s stretching it. It is designed for a no-longer-available mercury battery, however, modern alkaline replacements work fine.
History
The Yashica Electro 35 was very advanced, being electronic, when it came out in 1966. It was made though 1977, and sold at close-out until stocks ran out about 1980. Please note the space-age atomic symbol on the front. The Yashica Electro is the Apollo of Japanese consumer 35mm cameras. (Of course I m kidding Japanese cameras have nothing to do with the Apollo program. The official cameras are Hasselblad and Zeiss, while the Kodak Instamatic 104 was the official camera of the American people of that era.)
The only real differences over the Electro 35 s fourteen-year run are that the first models lacked a hot shoe and that the ASA ranges changed as films advanced.
