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Yashica basically trolled the photographic community with the announcement of its Y35 Digital film style camera back in October . The camera , which many photographers expected to be a 35mm film camera (according to hype) was actually revealed to be a digital camera with programmable film reels  (reels designed to look like film) which give the retro effect by allowing shutter speed and ISO controls based on the type of "reel" you purchase .  While all this sounds like something fun (and expensive in a age where you can manually restrict yourself with the ISO and shutter speed) , the whole program did end up generating way more than what any of the naysayers had in mind . At present , the Kickstarter crowdfunding program has generated a whopping $1.27 million  (keep in mind that the retail on one of these Digital film cameras cost $142 ) and now the project is said to be on the funding page Indiegogo as well . Of course , with all that funding , Yashica has dec...