Yashica Auto Focus Motor IID
Jun 28, 2022 10:26:32 GMT
on Jun 28, 2022 10:26:32 GMT
Posted: Jun 28, 2022 10:26:32 GMT
About 18 months ago we featured the Yashica Auto Focus and Auto Focus Motor and bobblehat kindly provided a timeline for the AF Motor series of P&S models. Here we have what I believe is the last in the sequence, Yashica's Auto Focus Motor IID Quartz.
Auto Focus Motor IID Quartz
Produced in 1985 alongside the Auto Focus Motor II which lacked the Quartz-controlled Date-Back, it remains a fairly basic P&S camera but with the benefits of auto-focus and a motor-drive. The lens is pretty decent and is a Yashica 35mm f3.5 comprising 4 elements in 3 groups. The shutter runs from 1/30s to 1/700s and indicated film speeds are ISO 50, 100, 200, 400 and, unusually, 1000. There is a switch below the lens to select the film speed. Flash is selected by pulling the flash out to the side of the camera and a red flash symbol in the viewfinder warns when flash is necessary but unlike quite a few of Yashica's compact cameras, the red under-exposure warning does not prevent the firing of the shutter. There is also a switch around the shutter button which operates the self-timer which has roughly a 10s delay.
The Quartz Date-Back, like most of Yashica's backs, stops at 31 December 2019 but this one still allows you to select no printing or simply to print hours and minutes which could prove useful. The back uses the usual CR2025 cell and the camera and flash are powered by two AA alkaline batteries.
IQ is pretty good and the automatic exposure control of the flash works well within short distances or as a fill-in outdoors.
Auto Focus Motor IID Quartz
Produced in 1985 alongside the Auto Focus Motor II which lacked the Quartz-controlled Date-Back, it remains a fairly basic P&S camera but with the benefits of auto-focus and a motor-drive. The lens is pretty decent and is a Yashica 35mm f3.5 comprising 4 elements in 3 groups. The shutter runs from 1/30s to 1/700s and indicated film speeds are ISO 50, 100, 200, 400 and, unusually, 1000. There is a switch below the lens to select the film speed. Flash is selected by pulling the flash out to the side of the camera and a red flash symbol in the viewfinder warns when flash is necessary but unlike quite a few of Yashica's compact cameras, the red under-exposure warning does not prevent the firing of the shutter. There is also a switch around the shutter button which operates the self-timer which has roughly a 10s delay.
The Quartz Date-Back, like most of Yashica's backs, stops at 31 December 2019 but this one still allows you to select no printing or simply to print hours and minutes which could prove useful. The back uses the usual CR2025 cell and the camera and flash are powered by two AA alkaline batteries.
IQ is pretty good and the automatic exposure control of the flash works well within short distances or as a fill-in outdoors.
