View Full Version : wow wee! Here it is then! A yashica forum!
emaquiling
03-04-2005, 20:32
Wow! A Yashica forum! Yeah!
Well, while trying to fix my shutter problem. I took the top and bottom off. I lost my red battery check light...must be in the carpet somewhere. Also, I"m not really sure if the exposures are right.
Just won a beater one for $6.50 and I'll salvage parts off it. ..then I think, it'll go to Hama.
Fedzilla_Bob
03-04-2005, 20:41
Yeah, its good to have a home for the Electros finally!!!
Todd.Hanz
03-04-2005, 21:06
Electros and 35CC's as well!
Todd
emaquiling
03-04-2005, 21:08
Electros and 35CC's as well!
Todd
What are 35cc's? I only have 2 rangefinders -- GSN and oly XA
Todd.Hanz
03-04-2005, 21:32
Yashica 35CC, a smaller version of the Electro with a 35mm/1.8 lens, here is a pic taken with it and one of it!
Todd
Yashica 35CC, a smaller version of the Electro with a 35mm/1.8 lens, here is a pic taken with it and one of it!
Todd
and RARE too!
Fedzilla_Bob
03-04-2005, 22:48
Gotta love those lenses, look at that contrast! Sweet!
Pherdinand
03-05-2005, 04:32
yeah, the CC is has an exceptional 35/1.8 lens...
emaquiling
03-05-2005, 04:47
35cc. Nice. ..must....re...s....i......s.......t :)
tedwhite
03-05-2005, 06:50
My GSN appears new and works perfectly. All it needed was a battery from yashica_guy. It came with the original neck strap, case (top detachable so you can leave the bottom on for camera body protection) and lens cap. The 45/1.7 Color Yashinon DX is a dream.
I particlarly like the quiet shutter release sound. Now if I could just shrink the camera so it would be the same size as my new Bessa R...
Pherdinand
03-05-2005, 07:15
Ted: there's something called electro35 GX too...:D That's the small version of the GSN.
tedwhite
03-05-2005, 08:20
Thanks, Pherdinand - does it have the same lens?
Ted
Pherdinand
03-05-2005, 10:35
Well, in fact it has a somewhat wider 40mm /1.7 lens, but it's the same 6-in-4 construction and afaik it's the same optical quality too.
CleverName
03-05-2005, 11:56
Wow! A Yashica forum! Yeah!
Perhaps we could celebrate the new Yashica forum with a World Wide Yashica Day. We pick a day and a time, ( like Satuday, March 12th at Noon, for example), we'd get everyone we know who has a Yashica to take a photo at the same time and post them here. Imagine hundreds of Yashicas quietly clicking around the world...
Fedzilla_Bob
03-05-2005, 15:12
Perhaps we could celebrate the new Yashica forum with a World Wide Yashica Day. We pick a day and a time, ( like Satuday, March 12th at Noon, for example), we'd get everyone we know who has a Yashica to take a photo at the same time and post them here. Imagine hundreds of Yashicas quietly clicking around the world...
Count me in. Is March 12th a solid date or are we going to wait for more votes. How do we get other's into it.
I think it would be an excellent excersise for me.
CleverName
03-05-2005, 15:54
I just threw out the 12th as an example. I think we should wait to hear from others. A saturday would probaly be best. I picked noon so everyone would have a chance at good light, but it might be better to do one standard time. like 12:00GMT or something.
tedwhite
03-05-2005, 16:50
I just sold all my Minolta Maxxum stuff on ebay. However, overlooked because I thought I'd lost it, was the Minolta Maxxum 2800AF flash, which I found this morning.
Just for a lark, I stuck it on the GSN, set the front ring to flash, and bingo, it works fine.
I think in the manual it says setting it that way defaults to 1/30 of a second. Does that sound right? Isn't that a bit slow for flash?
jon_flanders
03-05-2005, 17:52
I think in the manual it says setting it that way defaults to 1/30 of a second. Does that sound right? Isn't that a bit slow for flash?
Yes, the manual says 1/30th for flash, which is a bit slow. I would think that the flash would work at all speeds though, since it is a leaf shutter.
I almost never use a flash, so I don't know for certain.
tedwhite
03-05-2005, 18:04
That's my problem too: I almost never use a flash. However, there does arise that situation where you must photograph something commercial or technical or industrial for a client and the client ain't interested in art. He/she wants whatever it is illuminated in excruciating detail.
But then, in such situations, the client usually wants it right now, so I use a digital, flash away, load it all on a disk and hand it to the client. And I don't think of myself as doing photography when I do this, rather I think of the process as "hand-held computerized digital imaging."
Ted
12GMT is 7am here, and the sun's not even up yet. Waking up at 7am on a Saturday........naahhh. How about 10am PST, which is 1pm EST and 6pm GMT?
Fedzilla_Bob
03-05-2005, 18:37
12GMT is 7am here, and the sun's not even up yet. Waking up at 7am on a Saturday........naahhh. How about 10am PST, which is 1pm EST and 6pm GMT?
Works for me since I am in San Diego.
emaquiling
03-05-2005, 20:36
March 12th sounds good to me.
how i wish I have the CC in my hands now...:(
john neal
03-09-2005, 00:12
March 12 is great for me - I have a meeting with the artist Richard Wentworth who is going to explain his ethos for urban landscapes to me.
I think I'll stick with 12:00GMT tho' as 18:00GMT may be a bit dark in the UK.
I'll be using an Electro Pro which I have just fixed, so fingers crossed....... ;)
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