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on Mar 25, 2021 19:12:49 GMT
Last Edit: Mar 25, 2021 19:22:29 GMT by biggles3
It's nice to find Yashica items that don't pop up very often and one such is the camera below - the FX-7 Super. FX-7 Super Zeiss PC-DistagonIdentical to the FX-3 Super in all but the colour of the top and bottom plates, it would seem that Yashica made a lot more of the all-black FX-3 series than the FX-7 types. And I have already shown the oddball FX-3 Super 2000 in the silver finish in an earlier post. Has anyone seen a FX-7 Super 2000? The FX-7 Super is attached to a Zeiss PC-Distagon 35mm f2.8 T* lens. If you want a laugh, hop across to Ebay's item 233437678267 which purports to be a 'new' FX-7 Super...
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on Mar 25, 2021 19:38:54 GMT
Posted: Mar 25, 2021 19:38:54 GMT
That's a weird one, for sure.
I mean the camera -- NOT the lens.
Can you tell us more about the FX-7 Super?
I've never heard of it -- let alone the FX-7.
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on Mar 25, 2021 19:53:58 GMT
Posted: Mar 25, 2021 19:53:58 GMT
That's a weird one, for sure. I mean the camera -- NOT the lens. Can you tell us more about the FX-7 Super? I've never heard of it -- let alone the FX-7. Hi - the FX-7 series of cameras was simply the silver version of the FX-3 series which was black (except for the FX-3 Super 2000 which had a few cameras produced in a silver finish to its top and bottom plates and a military/surveillance version in dull green of the FX-3). Thus, the FX-7 Super is identical in specification to the FX-3 Super, the only difference being silver top and bottom plates. On a side note, I have seen FX-3 half-frame models for use by the police but not FX-7 ones - unless someone here knows different?
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on Mar 26, 2021 16:49:09 GMT
Posted: Mar 26, 2021 16:49:09 GMT
Looking through ShopGoodwill, there's a FX-3 Super 2000 in silver up for auction... www.shopgoodwill.com/Item/118192026Unusual to see a C/Y yashica with a Tokina 28mm RMC as the attached lens too. Not a great lens, but not bad either.
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on Apr 13, 2021 8:41:46 GMT
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I understood that FX-7 was the same as FX-3 but made for across the pond so thats why silver top .. ?
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on Apr 13, 2021 10:12:06 GMT
Posted: Apr 13, 2021 10:12:06 GMT
I understood that FX-7 was the same as FX-3 but made for across the pond so thats why silver top .. ? Not quite - you are absolutely correct in saying that the cameras are identical apart from the top and base plates but the two models were sold side-by-side in most markets. It was simply a case of offering the camera in a traditional 'chrome' finish as well as the more contemporary black as they had done previously with the FX-1 and FR series as well as later with the FX-D models and FX-103. Of the FX-series of cameras, I think only the FX-2 plus FX-70 (chrome) and FX-A (black) were available without colour options. However, it does get complicated in later production years with the FX-3 Super 2000 in that some were made in the chrome finish as shown in this thread. It seems that Kyocera did not see the need to produce a FX-7 Super 2000 so simply provided the FX-3 version in two finishes. I have no idea as to why Yashica decided originally to give a separate model number to a chrome finish on a FX-3 as they'd been making chrome and black alternatives that go back at least to the J-3. It must have been a marketing thing...
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on Apr 13, 2021 12:52:40 GMT
Posted: Apr 13, 2021 12:52:40 GMT
It's just the FX-3 Super 2000 into silver finish, i've seen a copy by myself into the 90s.
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on Apr 13, 2021 15:59:27 GMT
Last Edit: Apr 13, 2021 16:01:39 GMT by lumiworx
... Has anyone seen a FX-7 Super 2000? In another thread I'd mentioned that "I knew there was an FX-7 Super 2000..." - but- after searching for the image that I'd planted in my head and not finding it, that is likely wrong, wrong, wrong; and I think I know why. In the Yashica manuals section on Mike Butkus' site, there's a PDF link that leads to a self-made composite manual for both the FX-3 and FX-7 models that has a misleading two-line title (Super 2000), which suggests that there were equivalent FX-7 models for all 3 of the FX-3 versions. That isn't the case from what I can tell after trying to find an actual photo or specific text mentions for that particular model designation aywhere else on the web. That also explains why it's not in my camera lists either, when I thought it might have just gotten missed or mislabeled. The actual maual pages included don't mention anything about a 1/2000 shutter speed as part of the instructions at all, so even the underlying scans weren't from one of the Super 2000 physical manuals. The FX-3 Super 2000 was produced a little more than a year after the earlier 'Super' models came out, so I'd assume Yashica/Kyocera had some sales numbers to reflect on for the prior demand, and probably decided against the extra expense of 2 different color schemes. It might be that there were some samples made, or maybe some were gifted to dealers before they would have been released... but it doesn't look like they were ever available for sale from what I've seen so far.
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on Sept 13, 2021 10:38:00 GMT
Posted: Sept 13, 2021 10:38:00 GMT
A very nice condition FX-7 Super arrived today. Seems particularly smooth compared to my FX3 Super 2000. It’s baseplate is metal. Are there any other internal differences known that might suggest that the plain Super is more likely to robust than the Super 2000?
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on Sept 14, 2021 9:36:43 GMT
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A very nice condition FX-7 Super arrived today. Seems particularly smooth compared to my FX3 Super 2000. It’s baseplate is metal. Are there any other internal differences known that might suggest that the plain Super is more likely to robust than the Super 2000? In a word, no. All the functional parts are basically the same. The shutter in the 2000 is an upgraded version of the earlier shutter but no reason to believe either is more or less reliable.
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