Originally posted by Mistral75 Yashica don't exist as a camera company any more. They were acquired by Kyocera in 1983 and ceased activity in 2005. In 2008, Kyocera sold the trademark rights of Yashica to the Hong Kong-based
MF Jebsen Group. Nowadays Yashica International Company Limited are selling add-on lenses for smartphones. They cost HK$368 (US$47) if you want one:
YASHICA | The Silence of Story 2008, the time runs away.
Some brands may be interested
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Originally posted by Kunzite Uhh... that would be a mess, a product line with a serious identity crisis. And it doesn't solve anything. A Ricoh Imaging made Pentax camera with a Yashica logo?
Samsung sold Pentax cameras and lenses with their own logos.
Around 1980 there were Petri, Cosina, Ricoh, Vivitar and others with K-bayonet and it worked well, there were many cameras and lenses to choose from (I have the Ricoh XR7).
It worked well with patent free until Ricoh changed the bayonet.
In the Olympus assortment (4/3) I think that an FF camera would compliment and they have SR in their cameras as well. In that case they would do some own lenses as well.
An Olympus K1 would probably not be exactly like Pentax, as Samsung did.