Fun with Yashica Samurai half-frame

DougK

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I finally got around to mounting a roll of Elite Chrome 100 I ran through my Samurai X3.0 back in October at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. Fun camera to shoot with, although being a point-and-shoot it lacks manual controls except for the zoom.

Thought I'd post a few shots just for the heck of it. The images were scanned on an Epson 2580 flatbed at 2400 dpi, resized and saved as JPEG files in Photoshop Elements; no other image adjustments were made. Enjoy!
 
Hi, Doug.
I have one of these. The trim on mine is green, and there was red and one other color...maybe blue. I can't recall the codes for those colors now. Green may have been Japan. Neat camera that takes excellent half-frame pics. Thanks for reminding me about it. These were super for soccer-moms or parents with kids in baseball, softball, etc. Years ago when I was coaching girls softball, I'd hear them behind me being operated in continuous feed, trying to get a picture of daughter in action. You can run them almost like a movie camera if you hold the button down. Does yours "hunt" a bit for focus when operated in the wide angle mode?
Jon
 
My camera has the red buttons/trim. Actually, mine doesn't focus hunt too badly at either end, although it's kind of fun listening to the lens slam back and forth while it locks towards the telephoto end.
 
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