Yashica Y35 camera: the new resurrection of a legend?

For Yashica, it all started way back in 1949 in Nagano, Japan, where they initially manufactured electronic parts for watches. The era of cameras followed, and they achieved their greatest success 16 years later with the Electro 35 model, which sold as many as 8 million copies. Then, in the 1980s, the brand was bought by larger companies and the trail was slowly lost. But now they are coming back. With a Kickstarter campaign, they want to coax the legendary Electro 35 genie out of the bottle. In a modern guise, of course.

Yashica Y35 camera it is Electro 35 model replica just by appearance.

Instead of a real movie, you will insert it into digiFilm, which is actually cartridge with a set of plug-ins, who take care of various filters in photographyThe Y35 was equipped with 35mm lens, f/2.8 aperture and 1/2.3-inch, 14-megapixel CMOS light sensor. You won't be able to change the shutter speed, as it is set automatically. ISO values and you will choose whatever when purchasing digiFilm, which is offered in four versions, namely color ISO 200 and ISO 1600, black and white ISO 400 and square format 120Keep in mind that the film isn't real anyway, so you'll need to save the photos to SD card.

They still left something for analog enthusiasts and nostalgics 'film rotation' after each captured photo, even though it's just a maneuver, because as we've already said, there's no real film inside. Only the real feeling remains.

The idea is romantic, but how the Yashica Y35 will compete with the photo quality of smartphones that take up space in every pocket remains to be seen. On Kickstarter is the price for it 120 euros, for the Deluxe version, which was dressed in leather, 280 euros.