On 10 September 2011 17:54, Brian Walters <[email protected]> wrote: > I can't argue with much of that except that Yashica did briefly enter > the autofocus market, although this was after their takeover by Kyocera. > As I recall, one of the big problems for Yashica was that Minolta > apparently saw their first attempt at AF as being too close to the > Minolta 7000 for comfort and hit them with a patent infringement suit. > This delayed the launch of the Yashica AF SLRs and probably contributed > to their lack of penetration into AF territory. > > > Cheers > > Brian >
Wow, thats a whole bit of camera history that happened while I was looking the other way. It doesn't seem well documented, either. Wikipedia didn't refer to AF Yashica SLRs at all, and a reader unfamiliar with Yashica models wouldn't know that some cameras in their list had features not discussed in the article. Unimportant details like a totally different lens-mount with AF ability. Nowhere else has much, either, mostly just a few entries in camera forums. The story of the final years of Yashica SLRs is nothing more than a thumbnail sketch where the internet is concerned. regards, Anthony "Of what use is lens and light to those who lack in mind and sight" (Anon) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
