Yashica Atoron Electro
Yashica couldn't just let Minox have all the fun in the subminiature game. When it comes to 8x11mm film cameras, Minox will always be the top dog, but Yashica did make some waves of their own with their line of Atoron cameras.
The Yashica Atoron Electro was an electronic update to their earlier, mechanical Atoron camera. Released in the early 1970s, the Atoron Electro looked and felt much like its predecessors, though it sure did not sound like one. Gone was the mouse-squeak-shutter-squeal of the original Atoron, the Electro is much, much quieter. Also missing from the Atoron Electro are the all manual exposure controls. Yashica installed a CdS meter in the Atoron Electro and let the meter take over all exposure responsibilities. All the user has to do is load the film, correctly set the ASA setting (choosing between 16, 25, 50, 100 and 200), and the camera's meter will pick the appropriate shutter speed and aperture. The Atoron Electro is able to expose shutter speeds as long as 8 seconds at f/2.8 up to 1/350th at f/13. Just be sure to keep a spare battery handy, the camera doesn't do much of anything without a good battery in it.
Focusing is still done manually with the Atoron Electro. A small knob on the bottom of the camera allows the setting of focus and, while the viewfinder does adjust for parallax, there are no focus aides to assist one's guesstimation of the distance at which the lens should be set.
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