Yashimaflex and Yashicaflex are medium format film TLR cameras made by Yashica and produced between 1953-59. They use 120 film for 6x6cm frames. [1] Reference sites used are mainly TLR Cameras by Barry Toogood and Yashica TLR. Introduced in 1953, similar to the Pigeonflex except with sports...

Oct 13, 2024 · The Yashica Flex B is an updated version of the Yashima Flex or simply its rebadged most advanced version with fast shutter, released in approx 1954. This is not to be confused with the later Yashicaflex B or the Yashica-B !

The first camera made by the fledgling camera maker, Yashima, later to adopt the name of its Yashica cameras, was a twin lens reflex (TLR) taking twelve 6 cm x 6 cm negatives on 120 format film (note, not related to the Tokyo based Yashima microscope maker founded in 1935).

1954 Yashica Flex model S with NKS-FB shutter. 1st and 2nd types are extremely rare (with maker name same as Pigeonflex), only difference is catch type. Usually with Tri-Lausar lenses but a 2nd type has been found with Heliotars.

The Yashicaflex A (new model) may have replaced the Yashicaflex A-II and/or the Yashica Rookie as the base model(s) in the Japanese domestic market until the many coloured Yashica A III model (Yashica A elsewhere) made its late arrival in 1959.

Feb 16, 2016 · The Yashica Flex model S (aka Yashicaflex) is one of Yashima's most important early cameras... well maybe the second most important behind the first. Obviously Yashima's first camera, the oddly named Pigeonflex one could argue, was the most important.

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The Yashica Flex model S followed the Yashima Flex and perhaps Yashica Flex model B, although the evidence suggests that it was released near simultaneously with the latter camera and maybe even developed before it (see below).

Dec 2, 2021 · Yashica Flex Model S. Maybe from 1955 or early 1956. First Yashica TLR with built-in exposure meter. Made by Yashima Kogaku Seiki Co., Ltd. Tokyo, Japan, which later became Yashica. The leather case is in excellent condition given its age. The camera is a gem and is a joy to play with. A close cousin,…