Yashica 35mm Cameras...Let's See Them!

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OAPOli said:
I printed this adapter https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4893954, glued a brass shim at the bottom, put a spring in the hole and inserted 4x LR44 batteries.

The MG-1 will fire at 1/250s without a battery.
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Thanks. A bit more sophisticated compared to my solution which is 4x LR44 wrapped in a sellotape with a spring from a ballpoint pen on one side and a Euro cent coin on the other
 

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Yashica TL-Electro, from the early 70's. Was my dad's, came to me when he died.

50mm Yashinon 1:2 thread mount lens, focuses to 50cms.

It took mercury batteries, I've never bothered to try finding the equivalents, as the shutter works without them.

There's a light leak around the view finder, so using a view finder cap solves that problem.





Yashica TL-Electro

The TL-Electro was one of Yashica’s longest-running models in the very successful TL Series of 35mm single-lens reflex (SLR) cameras. Don’t confuse this model with the better known TL E…
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I use those little brass adapters for zinc cells. Some people don't like the short life of zinc cells, but I have been using them since the 1990s and their short life span is part of my normal work flow, I keep a stash of the zinc cells at all times. I don't store my cameras with batteries in place anyway.
 
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antonio_b said:
well it's a bit bigger than Pentax 110 .... but yes small. I guess in size similar are the Olympus. The Rolleiflex SL35M reminds of the Zenit-19
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I agree. My impression is the SL35M is an East German creation that was acquired by Rollei. I have a number of them, but they are almost not worth repairing due to the primitive construction compared to the West German SL35. Though there are many people out there that like working on Russian and East German cameras.
 

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I have taken my restored Yashica-FX3 out with a roll of Kodak Gold-200 in order to see what I get on 24x36 with a Mir-26 45mm f3.5 in Salyut mount, ie, a 6x6 lens. I have a set of Salyut lenses 30mm to 150mm. Here 3 levels of adapters: the in-body Contax-M42, a Salyut-P6 ring, and a P6-M42 adapter with shift. The biggest "normal" lens I have for 35mm.
The FX3 is diminutive and weights nothing, I screw the Yashica on the lens and not the other way around:






 

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This is one of my favorite Yashica cameras, mostly because of that stupendous lens. I've tested a lens extracted from a broken Lynx-14E on a Sony A7r3, against my best lenses including a modern Samyang 45mm/1.8 with aspherical element, Canon FDn 50mm/1.4 and many others. This beats them all. Totally usable wide open.
 

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I bought a TL Electro secondhand in 1978. At that time, secondhand Pentax Spotmatics were around the £100 mark but the Yashica cost me only £64. In the event, I wasn't disappointed and though the Yashica wouldn't have been my first choice I grew to love it and especially its green over/under exposure indication. A couple of years later, I traded it in against a Yashica Electro AX - big mistake! The AX was cranky in its operation (worth a Google if you don't know), gobbled batteries and the auto exposure was at best erratic. In my camera assortment (I hesitate to call it a collection!) now, I have a TL Electro as well as the Yashicas pictured below. All work fine, but in repairing Yashicas I've always been impressed by the build quality - for instance brass gears where other manufacturers might use plastic. The 35 is a fine fixed lens rangefinder, with a silky smooth action. The TL-Super is essentially a match needle metering version of the TL Electro. It's very heavy (all those brass gears!), the chrome is of excellent quality and it has a mirror lock-up facility (chrome lever beside the lens mount). The 635 is the only one of the three that I use regularly. It also feels very well made and though I also have a Rolleiflex, it's the 635 I go for when I feel the need for some TLR therapy.
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So, after building my shutter/meter tester, I found my oldest, most beat-up FX3 has a perfect meter and shutter. So, I went ahead and ordered new covering for it. Currently it has no covering.
 

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Well, My first camera was a Yashica FR. It's a pretty hefty block of brass. I need to fix the frame counter gear that decided to literally explode (it's made from old plastic).



I also have a Yashica ME1 for those narcissistic days
But jokes aside, it's a pretty fun little zone focus camera that has a lot in common with the Olympus Trip.
But as a bonus, it's got one of the most soothing and underwhelming shutter sound ever. It doesn't produce a dry click like most other point & shoots but a very rounded and mushy klock.

 
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