Yashica FX-3 + Yashica MC Zoom 35-70mm F3.5-4.5

The Yashica FX-3 is a fully mechanical 35mm SLR from 1979 — light, simple and built by Cosina, with a shutter that fires at every speed whether or not there is a battery in it. The battery runs the meter and nothing else. Its real advantage is the mount: the FX-3 takes Contax/Yashica bayonet glass, the same mount as Carl Zeiss C/Y lenses, so the system has somewhere exceptional to go. Paired here with the Yashica MC Zoom 35-70mm f/3.5-4.5, a useful wide-to-portrait walkaround.

Specifications

• Body: Yashica FX-3 — fully mechanical 35mm SLR, 1979
• Shutter: Mechanical vertical-travel metal, 1s to 1/1000s + Bulb
• Metering: Centre-weighted TTL with LED indicators in the viewfinder
• Flash sync: 1/125s
• Mount: Contax/Yashica (C/Y) bayonet
• Lens: Yashica MC Zoom 35-70mm f/3.5-4.5
• Self-timer: Working
• Format: 35mm film
• Weight: 450g body only
• Power: 2x LR44 / SR44 (meter only — the shutter is fully mechanical)

Condition

• Cosmetic: Very good condition, with light signs of age and use. The lens is clean, with some minor moisture on the front element that will have no effect on image quality.
• Functional: Fully working, including the self-timer and meter.

Included

• Yashica FX-3 body
• Yashica MC Zoom 35-70mm f/3.5-4.5 lens
• Lens cap

Everything works — shutter, meter and timer. The minor moisture marking on the lens front element sits outside the image-forming path in practice and does not show in photographs. A mechanical body on the Zeiss-compatible C/Y mount is a sensible place to start a system.