What's that camera #1

Trask · May 31, 2014

What's Arnold holding here? I think it's a Yashica TL Electro X -- an X version only because the photos I see of the TL Electro show it having black knobs on the top plate. There should be an engraved stylized X on the prism, but perhaps it's too overexposed to be visible. Or maybe I've got it all wrong...

Too old to care · May 31, 2014

I used to own one (Yashica TL Electro X), I think you are right. It was a nice camera, I gave it to my niece who took it to beach and got sand in it. That was the end of it.

snapguy · May 31, 2014

hard to tell

Boy, it is hard to tell just what it is. Many SLRs from that era have a generic look. But it could be. Arnold mitout der Leica? Vas is los?

TheToadMen · May 31, 2014

snapguy said:
Arnold mitout der Leica? Vas is los?

I'm guessing here, but it sounds like:
"Arnold ohne der Leica? Was ist los?"

shutterfinger · May 31, 2014

Its definitely a Yashica, can't tell beyond that even with image editing.

AgX · May 31, 2014

"Ohne die Leica", please.

TheToadMen · May 31, 2014

AgX said:
"Ohne die Leica", please.

I wasn't sure about "die" or "der", so I checked the German Leica forum. My mistake.

snapguy · May 31, 2014

Ooops

My German was never very good although my mom spoke and wrote it.

John Koehrer · May 31, 2014

Nice nostril shot.

Alan Gales · May 31, 2014

He holds his camera like a girly man!

AgX · May 31, 2014

??????

How is a manly man to hold such camera instead?

elcabezagrande · May 31, 2014

The camera is a Yashica TL, sans any suffix.

fstop · May 31, 2014

Who cares!

Alan Gales · May 31, 2014

AgX said:
??????

How is a manly man to hold such camera instead?

His left hand should be underneath the camera supporting it so he can both cradle the lens and focus it with his indexfinger and thumb.

I'm just poking fun of Arnold a bit like the old Hans and Franz sketches on the Saturday Night Live television show. Being from Germany you probably have no idea what I'm talking about.

AgX · Jun 1, 2014

This is a snapshot. Who knows what he was doing. If each moment of me holding one of fmy cameras would be photographed, I wonder what I would be called...

Furthermore: I hardly ever hold my cameras the way you urge. It just does not work for me.

What counts for me:

-) stability
-) functionality
-) comfort

Not some rule. Not some gender issue.

Les Sarile · Jun 1, 2014

Trask said:
What's Arnold holding here? I think it's a Yashica TL Electro X -- an X version only because the photos I see of the TL Electro show it having black knobs on the top plate. There should be an engraved stylized X on the prism, but perhaps it's too overexposed to be visible. Or maybe I've got it all wrong...

I would agree that it is the TL Electro X due to the things you pointed out as well as the prominent silver mirror lock up control and self timer lever which clearly differentiates it from a TL Electro.

BTW, it is a stylized Y instead of an X on the prism.

Alan Gales · Jun 1, 2014

AgX said:
This is a snapshot. Who knows what he was doing. If each moment of me holding one of fmy cameras would be photographed, I wonder what I would be called...

Furthermore: I hardly ever hold my cameras the way you urge. It just does not work for me.

What counts for me:

-) stability
-) functionality
-) comfort

Not some rule. Not some gender issue.

I just meant it as a joke and was trying to be funny. Sometimes I forget that this forum is international and some things just don't translate or maybe I just wasn't funny in the first place.

TheToadMen · Jun 1, 2014

Alan Gales said:
I just meant it as a joke and was trying to be funny. Sometimes I forget that this forum is international and some things just don't translate or maybe I just wasn't funny in the first place.

That's why I also prefer an analog form of discussion: it has the benefits of intonation and body language ....

fstop · Jun 1, 2014

Alan Gales said:
I just meant it as a joke and was trying to be funny. Sometimes I forget that this forum is international and some things just don't translate or maybe I just wasn't funny in the first place.

I thought it was funny.

Ming Rider · Jun 8, 2014

Lol. The look of a man off his head on success, money, adrenalin and the countless ladies throwing themselves at his feet (or thereabouts).

Ah, those were the days.

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