let's see your yashica rf

[zuikomaniac]

[donnnnnny]

this is my yashica minister.
have a couple of w questions, on the to next to the film winder is the asa lav dial, how do i set asa?? i really cant see the digits as they are so small.
also can anyone tell me right in front of the asa diel on the front is a little frost glass window< which apears to be looose on ine. is this a built in light metere? and if so if its broken can i just use a hand held light meter??
thanks donnnnnny
ps is there anywhere i can buy a users manual

[b1bmsgt]

Yes, the window in the front is for the meter. Whether it seems to be working or not, I always recommend the use of a hand held meter with any classic camera and to not trust any built in meter. They may be working fine today and go south tomorrow leaving you with a roll of dead pictures.

Russ

[Eryximachos]

These were CLA'd and recovered by b1bmsgt http://www.camerarefurb.com/.

[Frontman]

Here are mine,

[Dan Grisez]

Electro 35 GSN


Same Electro 35 GSN


MG-1


Dan

[arthur sadowsky]

Hey donnnnnny,

it's funny, but I never saw this Minister before. Could you upload some more pics of it, maybe a clouse-up shots of lens/front?

Thank you much in advance!

Originally Posted by donnnnnny

this is my yashica minister.
have a couple of w questions, on the to next to the film winder is the asa lav dial, how do i set asa?? i really cant see the digits as they are so small.
also can anyone tell me right in front of the asa diel on the front is a little frost glass window< which apears to be looose on ine. is this a built in light metere? and if so if its broken can i just use a hand held light meter??
thanks donnnnnny
ps is there anywhere i can buy a users manual

[xwhatsit]

Somehow I've ended up with all of these already.

From left:

• 1960 Lynx 1000 (arrived this morning, stuck advance lever and the framelines + rangefinder patch like to shoot off out of the view of the viewfinder if you turn the camera on its side, will take a look inside it tomorrow).
• 1963 Minister D, swabbed the shutter with lighter fluid for two weeks straight until it started working, but put two rolls through it and it's been fine. Really fun to use.
• Immaculate, but POD'd, 1970 Electro GS. Feels really solid and tight. I think it wasn't used very much or often before it POD'd, then got boxed up and left in a cupboard for years. Hope the microsurgery method will be successful.

All cost me next to nothing and came with cases. I like the Minister D best so far, although tonight at a yakitori bar in town it would've been more useful to have either the Lynx or Electro; f2.8 wasn't quite enough for available light.

[omega]

Here's mine:

[Jackslai]

Lens took from YASHICA Electro 35 GSN adapter to Olympus Pen E-P1


Test shoot

[arthur sadowsky]

Originally Posted by Jackslai

Lens took from YASHICA Electro 35 GSN adapter to Olympus Pen E-P1

...??? How is that posible? Could you please provide more pics of the adapter itself? I'm totally intrigued!

[Jackslai]

Originally Posted by arthur sadowsky

...??? How is that posible? Could you please provide more pics of the adapter itself? I'm totally intrigued!

I think you saw those images from my flickr already.

[Frontman]

How about this one?



I got this camera on the big auction site recently for $20. It was advertised as being "non-working", but with a little patience and a few tools I was able to bring it back to life.



If cameras could talk, few would have as much to say as this one. Besides the wear on the outside, the paint is worn off inside the camera from countless rolls of film loaded and unloaded, and the pressure plate has film marks on it.

One of the best things about this camera is the silky-smooth operation. I've now had more than a dozen of these CC/CCN cameras, but none of them are anywhere near as smooth as this one.

I have been using a minty black GX as my carry-around Yashica, but I think I'll put that one up for sale on eBay and carry this one. I doubt I'll ever use it as much as it's former owner, but it wouldn't have been used so much if it hadn't been any good.

[btgc]

Originally Posted by Frontman

One of the best things about this camera is the silky-smooth operation. I've now had more than a dozen of these CC/CCN cameras, but none of them are anywhere near as smooth as this one.

Bingo! That's how cameras should look like. May it be that smoothness Leica users like to mention comes after using camera like this - each day, year around? Probably after they buy single not too cheap camera, they don't waste themselves buying and trying to use too many cameras, so they get to state where smoothness takes over exterior.

It reminds me a Doc from "The Cars" - not too shiny, no stickers, no fancy look, but reliablity and years and years of experience behind.

[Frontman]

An interesting thing about this old CCN is that there is no "wide" emblem attached to the front. It doesn't appear to have been tampered with (the solder on the PC socket inside the upper housing appears original), and lately I'm finding a lot of variety in these cameras. Some of them have a pouch on the back for a ASA-DIN conversion card, others don't. Some come with an aluminum winding lever nut, others are made of brass. Some come with door seals on the latch side, others don't. And in the case of the GX, I just got one with a metal film box lid holder on the back door. Of the 6 or 7 GX cameras I've had, this is the only one with that feature.

The only real problem that I've had with some of these cameras is that the light cell is occasionally bad. It's easy to get access to all the important parts for service, but it's often hard to track down certain problems. I got another CC and CCN today, the CCN worked fine, but the CC had a slow shutter. A couple drops of oil in the shutter release linkage solved the problem, and now it works fine as well.

Anyway, I loaded a roll of Neopan in the above-pictured CCN, and I hope to go out and get some pictures once the rain stops.

[radiac]

Here's mine!

A black Yashica GX

[Kent]

Originally Posted by PatrickT

Wow! I mean, WOW!

Originally Posted by PatrickT

What can I say, she's a beauty!

Indeed!

[koniczech]

The one that everyone has; GSN.

Taken by my other guy that no one has; Petri 7s

Ilford XP2

[koniczech]

Originally Posted by Frontman

I love the patina on this one. Great find!

[RF-doyle]

Hi All, New to the forum. I just picked up this two days ago for $10. I just got a battery today so I need to fashion up a little retrofit kit and perform some old battery cleanup to see if it (hopefully) works.

There was some leakage from the old battery which was still in place, but the cap did open right up. I really like the feel of this camera ans look forward to running some film through it.

[sansen]

I just joined a few days ago and thought I would share my newest Electro 35 GT. Its about as mint as it gets. I have just replaced the light seals even though they were pretty much intact, no need to tempt the feats

This is a great site and so full of information as well as some really nice folks. Thanks for making it available!
S.

[tomisimpern]

I love this big cat - i just fancied a change (and I screwed up the front leather when getting the lens plate off) so I stuck this burgundy leather on - needs a bit of tidying up, but i love the cam so much I don't care.

[Alowisney]

My new Electro GSN that I got yesterday and my Yashica LM TLR. I'm running a test roll through the GSN now. I love it so far.

They're dreaming about going outside and taking pictures together.

[Jack Conrad]

here's one a little different.

[tomisimpern]

Jack that is wonderful - what was the taking camera ?