It has a focus lock button, which is nice for focus and recompose situations (something that I use often with digital cameras). Images are composed using a basic bright frame viewfinder. Using the Yashica Auto Focus cameraįor the most part, this camera does what it says on the box and it has some interesting features. The film ISO/ASA settings range from 25 to 500 and are manually set. The aperture ranges from ƒ2.8, down to ƒ19 and shutter speeds vary from from 1/60 to 1/360.
The Yashica Auto Focus has a 38mm lens (an interesting street photography field of view, in-between the more usual 35mm and 50mm), comprising of three elements, with a minimum focus of 1.1 metre.
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The one I have appears to be the first of this series and is the ‘no-frills’ edition with a manual film wind. There were a variety of models of Yashica Auto Focus camera built. It is certainly less bulky than the previously reviewed Canon Canonet. However, due to it’s plastic body, it feels quite light – even with it’s two AA batteries loaded (390 grammes without).
It does have a kind of SLR feel to it – it’s about the physical size of an Olympus OM film series. Yashica Auto Focus technical specification bits and piecesĭespite my introduction, this camera is hardly large. But, despite not being all that compact, the Yashica Auto Focus is an interesting beast. Point and shoot film cameras are often also called compact film cameras.