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Yashica 8mm Camera 

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Type: Movie Camera

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Manufacture :   Yasica

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Production Date :  Manufactured in 1958

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Acquired at :   Long Island New York, Garage sale

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Acquired Date :   2000

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Yashica was a Japanese manufacturer of cameras, originally active from 1949 until 2005 when its then-owner, Kyocera, ceased production.

 

The Yashica Company began in December 1949 in Nagano, Japan, when the Yashima Seiki Company was founded originally manufactured components for electric clocks. Later, they began making camera components, and by June 1953 had introduced their first complete camera.

 

In 1957, Yashima founded Yashica, Inc., 1957 also marked the introduction of a popular new TLR camera series, the Yashica Mat line. as well as an 8mm cine movie camera.

 

The yashica Duel lens 8T2 was first introduced by 1958 at the world's largest exhibition, Photokina Held in Germany.

 

The Yashica 8 is a typical home movie camera of the time. Feature wise it is basic but it is well built with a die cast aluminium body and good quality for its positioning. It uses standard 8, also known as double 8, cine film. This is 16 mm cine film with twice as many sprocket holes down either side as “normal” 16 mm for use in 16 mm cameras. Only half the width of the film is exposed when run through the camera. The length of film is about 25 feet and when the end is reached, the camera is opened and the film spools flipped top to bottom and then the other half width of film can be used. After processing, the film is split and spliced together giving a total length of about 50 feet, or about 4 minutes of viewing time.