A friend sent me a link to this Yashica EZ F521 camera and at first look … I thought it is another plastic old film camera. Checking out the details, it seems this retro looking camera is a digital one!
It has a 5 megapixel sensor, 2.4 inch LCD, auto ISO setting and a lens that reminds us of the good old Holga camera. Focusing seems to be manual … note the mountain and flower icons on the side of the lens.
It runs on AA batteries, shoots 640×480 video and has a 32MB internal memory. SD/SHDC cards are accepted.
At US$89, it sounds pretty affordable but whether it produces cool Holga/Lomo looking photos … is yet to be known. I can’t seem to find any sample photos taken with it online at the moment. The cool retro look might attract some attention but I guess everyone will be very curious to see how it performs (or rather how it doesn’t perform). It will be really cool of it produces some result like what the Digital Harinezumi does … or maybe at least something cool and weird like what a Holga can spit out.
The camera is currently available here at Exemode.