Yashmak Dental Eye camera for specialized close-ups
Toronto. The Yashika Dental Eye is a strange little film camera with a lens intended ONLY for close-ups. It includes a ring flash that surrounds the lens to create shadowless images.
The camera uses 35mm film and came initially with a 55mm lens and later a 100mm lens (both f/4). It is intended to be used by a dentist or opthamologist to record the mouth (teeth) or eyes in close-up style.
The images here are by my friend Fritz Shulze showing the camera he owns (brand new). It was nice to hear from Mr Shulze who before retirement, worked for Zeiss Canada here in Toronto and shares my interest in microscopy.
The image quality in this post is not that great thanks to Google Picasa which has been discontinued and all such images moved elsewhere. There is a far better high resolution version somewhere in the Google cloud, but finding it seems a bit time consuming!
The first link in this post (Yashika Dental Eye) goes to the Lomography site and suggests other uses for this camera while the second link (camera) goes to Camera-wiki which has some great higher resolution (copyrighted) images.
