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Last month, Yashica announced it was working on the Y16, a tiny pocket camera that mimics the design of the Y16 released in 1959 by the original Yashica company. While details on the camera were slim, the company has now fully revealed it, giving us its specifications, price and release date.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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The Y16 has a 12MP ~18mm\u00b2 sensor paired with a 27mm F12 equiv. lens. Like many of the other cameras the company makes, this means its image quality will be far lower than that of a typical smartphone, though for some, that\u2019s part of the charm. Alongside the announcement, Yashica has shared some sample images from the camera, which you can see in the gallery below.<\/p>\n

What phones don\u2019t have is a proper xenon flash built-in, which will help in low-light situations. The company says it should work at up to 2m (6\u20196\u2033) away from your subject. The camera also features an optical viewfinder, and a 1.45\u2033 display.<\/p>\n

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Physically, it\u2019s minuscule, weighing only 93g (3.3oz). It measures 91 x 45 x 29mm (3.6 x 1.8 x 1.1\u2033), so it should fit in most pockets and pretty much any purse or bag.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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The Y16 has a microSD card slot for storage, and actually comes with an 8GB card. While that\u2019s not huge, it should hold quite a few of the relatively small JPEGs the camera produces. Plus, given the price, it\u2019s hard to complain about included storage: the Y16 will retail for $119. The company says it\u2019s currently still in production, but it\u2019s available for pre-order now and is expected to ship in late November.<\/p>\n

The Yashica of the 1950s isn\u2019t the same as the one today, as in the 1980s it was sold to Kyocera, which has since licensed the name to other companies. The current crop of Yashica cameras appears to be sold by the Hong Kong-based 100 Enterprises.<\/p>\n

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About the Author: <\/span>Mitchell started taking pictures at 10 and hasn\u2019t stopped since. It\u2019s been a wide-ranging adventure, spanning a wide variety of genres and locales, and occasionally dipping into fascinations with video and filmmaking. They honed their technical knowledge doing documentation, programing and QA, writing for The Verge, and just generally messing around on the computer to see what breaks.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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