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"Yashica brand is back?"
When Kyocera wound down their photo operations, they sold the Yashica brand to a Hong Kong-based company "to use on photo products such as digital cameras, digital camcoders, digital photo frames, portable DVD players, digital audio players, digital voice recorders, binoculars, mobile phones and SD cards".
Here is a Contax history article I wrote a while ago
Commented Oct 7, 2009 on Retro Digicam...Digital Holga? at The Online Photographer
Retro Digicam...Digital Holga?
Exemode Yashica will release a low-spec, retro-styled digicam in Japan on October 24th. The EZ F521 will have a 5-megapixel 1/2.5" CMOS sensor, a fixed 42mm-e ƒ/3, and an optical viewfinder. There are only two manually-set positions for focus: Hyperfocal (1.5m–infinity) and Macro (0.2–0.4m [...
Hubert Nerwin, Zeiss Ikon
http://www.zeisshistorica.org/Nerwin.html
Commented Sep 29, 2009 on Remember Willi Stein! at The Online Photographer
Remember Willi Stein!
In the comments to Ken's nifty post below about the Olympus Pen, a reader named Antony Sheperd asked, parenthetically, "how many camera designers can people name? I can think of Barnack and Maitani." Barnack...that got me to thinking. Barnack is well known, and always gets the credit for the Lei...
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