Yashica 230-AF w/ML 28mm Lens via Adapter
I'll start out by saying "I get it". Not many people these days do, but I do. What I get is what an incredibly good 35mm auto focus film camera the 230-AF from Yashica was, and is. The only thing Yashica did wrong was to allow Minolta to beat them to market with their now legendary Maxxum 7000. As a result, Yashica's first auto focus offering never got much traction in the market. But ironically, I can tell you this is every bit the camera the Maxxum 7000 is and then some - if for no other reason than they lasted longer. All the Maxxum 7000 cameras are falling apart now - broken battery grips, tanked aperture control mechanisms, and bleeding LCDs. But I've had a few of these 230-AF bodies in hand, and they all seem to have held up great over time. Yashica even made an AF adapter to allow use of their previous generation manual focus lenses (shown here). And the lenses! The manual focus lenses are blindingly sharp, and so are the AF lenses. I even got really, really lucky and bought one particular 230-AF that arrived with a split-prism manual focusing screen that Yashica offered back in the day. Those must be extremely rare these day, but I've got one in this camera. They can pry this camera from my cold dead fingers! Oh, and they are just about the least loved camera on the used market and can be had incredibly cheap. I should also add that I first acquired this particular Yashica 230-AF back in 2013.
Photo taken with a Pentax K20D and SMC Pentax-DA 16-45mm f/4 lens.
Yashica 230-AF w/ML 28mm Lens via Adapter
I'll start out by saying "I get it". Not many people these days do, but I do. What I get is what an incredibly good 35mm auto focus film camera the 230-AF from Yashica was, and is. The only thing Yashica did wrong was to allow Minolta to beat them to market with their now legendary Maxxum 7000. As a result, Yashica's first auto focus offering never got much traction in the market. But ironically, I can tell you this is every bit the camera the Maxxum 7000 is and then some - if for no other reason than they lasted longer. All the Maxxum 7000 cameras are falling apart now - broken battery grips, tanked aperture control mechanisms, and bleeding LCDs. But I've had a few of these 230-AF bodies in hand, and they all seem to have held up great over time. Yashica even made an AF adapter to allow use of their previous generation manual focus lenses (shown here). And the lenses! The manual focus lenses are blindingly sharp, and so are the AF lenses. I even got really, really lucky and bought one particular 230-AF that arrived with a split-prism manual focusing screen that Yashica offered back in the day. Those must be extremely rare these day, but I've got one in this camera. They can pry this camera from my cold dead fingers! Oh, and they are just about the least loved camera on the used market and can be had incredibly cheap. I should also add that I first acquired this particular Yashica 230-AF back in 2013.
Photo taken with a Pentax K20D and SMC Pentax-DA 16-45mm f/4 lens.