The FX-D was a 35 mm film single-lens reflex camera introduced to the market in 1979 by the Japanese camera manufacturer Yashica. Yashica and Contax were known basically as “sister companies” and their products usually had striking similarities. This camera was called the last Yashica because, in 1983, Kyocera acquired the Yashica/Contax brands and the…
Yashica FX-3 was a manually-operated 35mm single-lens reflex camera released by Yashica in 1979. In 1986, the FX-3 Super was succeeded by the FX-3 Super 2000. It was available in black and chrome finishes, with the shutter speed range extended to 1/2000 and a wider ISO range from 25 – 3200. It had an exposure…
The Olympus OM-10 is a 35mm single-lens reflex camera model that was launched by Olympus Corporation in June 1979. It is a part of the Olympus OM system (O = Olympus, M = Maitani). Yoshihisa Maitani was a designer of cameras for Olympus Corporation. It was a 35mm focal-plane shutter aperture priority AE SLR camera…
The Olympus E-10 is a digital single-lens reflex camera with a 4.0-megapixel CCD image sensor that was introduced in 2000. Unlike most digital SLRs the camera is not a system camera, its lens is fixed to the body. It has a TTL optical viewfinder and a 4× optical zoom lens with lens aperture f/2–2.4. Instead…
The Nikon N90s is a 35mm autofocus film SLR using Nikon’s F lens mount. The name N90s was used for marketing in the United States; everywhere else the camera was called the F90x. This camera was also used as the base for the Kodak DCS 400 series of digital SLRs. The N90s/F90x was introduced in…
The Nikon FE is an advanced semi-professional level interchangeable lens 35 mm film single-lens reflex (SLR) camera. It was manufactured by Nikon in Japan from 1978 to 1983. The FE uses a metal-bladed, vertical travel focal plane shutter with a speed range of 8 to 1/1000 second, plus Bulb, and flash X-sync of 1/125th second.…
The F65 (Nikon N65 in the U.S. and the Nikon U in Japan) is a 35mm film SLR camera introduced by Nikon in 2001. It was aimed at the lower end of the amateur autofocus SLR market. Its features included autofocus, various forms of TTL light metering and different operating modes. It also included depth-of-field…
The F55 (N55 in the U.S.) is a 35mm film SLR autofocus camera introduced by Nikon in 2002. It was targeted at a new and lower price-point than the F65 (previously Nikon’s cheapest autofocus SLR). It is unique among recent Nikon autofocus SLRs in that it does not support autofocus on Nikon lenses with “AF-S”…
Konica EFP-2 is a 35mm point & shoot compact film camera with Hexanon 38mm prime lens. It was manufactured or assembled in Japan from 1984. It’s a completely plastic camera (except for the lens, a Hexanon 38mm). It has one shutter speed (1/60) and two ISO settings (100/200 and 400). It’s very simple and easy…
Kodak Jiffy six 16 Series II was a medium format folding camera made by Eastman Kodak Co. Ltd., Rochester, U.S.A between 1937 and 1948. It had a Twindar lens with a distance selector. Only two apertures were selectable. But it had two viewfinders in the pop-out lens board, one for vertical and one for horizontal…