Yashica FX-3
Features:
This is a great beginner SLR made by Minolta in 1979. This camera has a great 50mm 1.8 prime lens and case. It works really well with black and white film and delivers great deep colors with Kodak 400 color film.
- Included: Battery + 400 Film + Original Release Case From 1979 + 50mm lens
- Film Type: 35mm Manual-focus SLR
- Condition: Mint
- Released: 1979
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
History:
The FX-3 was a very popular, manually-operated, 35mm single lens reflex camera, released by Yashica in 1979, and built by Cosina. It has a vertical metal-bladed mechanical focal plane shutter with speeds up to 1/1000, an exposure meter with a simple 3-LED reading in the viewfinder, and no automatic metering or focusing modes. The camera is very compact and lightweight for an SLR design, and weighs about 1 pound (450 grams). One of the camera's greatest attributes is that it will accept all manual-focus Yashica / Contax lenses, including the superb Carl Zeiss T* lenses intended for the Contax line. The FX-3 was available only in black, although there was also an otherwise identical FX-7 model that came in a chrome finish.