p.giannakis
Pan Giannakis
I just got today a Yashica 200AF with a standard lens for £2. Has anyone ever tried to take apart this lens - mine is full of fungus and i was thinking to clean it.
Many thanks!
Many thanks!
btgc
Veteran
Can't help on opening, but I'd put it aside and get 230-AF with clean lens. Time, eyesight etc. And you'll have TTL flash capability in addition to more controls and info-enabled VF.
p.giannakis
Pan Giannakis
Just for the record, I managed to clean the lens since. I used some double sided tape on a bottle cup as a friction tool to unscrew the ring on the front of the lens and there were 3 screws underneath it. Once I removed the 3 screws, the front element came off.
btgc
Veteran
I came to conclusion 230AF were released before 200AF, can not prove it right now, so take it with a grain of salt - as a food for thoughts.
AAA cells for 200AF isn't such a heaven's gift - this cells are of much less capacity than double lithium cell which also never leaks like AA and AAA's. Yet lithium cell goes strong until it's empty not having mid-life weakness. But if you like to go through sets of AAA's for some reasons it's possible to use battery holder from 200AF on 230AF.
For low light focusing there's some remedy - you know, Yashica 250AF TTL flash has AF assist light so with some bounce it's useful tool. Or use SCA adapter with integrated AF light which allows to have advantage of AF assist light without actually firing flash. This only works for 230AF as 200AF doesn't support TTL flash. In my opinion 200AF isn't worth bothering with as 230AF isn't expensive camera. Not only because of TTL. Well, 200AF were choice back then because of price diff.
And thanks for clarifying relation to Minolta, I've seen some notes on similarity of lens mounts but not so on bodies!
AAA cells for 200AF isn't such a heaven's gift - this cells are of much less capacity than double lithium cell which also never leaks like AA and AAA's. Yet lithium cell goes strong until it's empty not having mid-life weakness. But if you like to go through sets of AAA's for some reasons it's possible to use battery holder from 200AF on 230AF.
For low light focusing there's some remedy - you know, Yashica 250AF TTL flash has AF assist light so with some bounce it's useful tool. Or use SCA adapter with integrated AF light which allows to have advantage of AF assist light without actually firing flash. This only works for 230AF as 200AF doesn't support TTL flash. In my opinion 200AF isn't worth bothering with as 230AF isn't expensive camera. Not only because of TTL. Well, 200AF were choice back then because of price diff.
And thanks for clarifying relation to Minolta, I've seen some notes on similarity of lens mounts but not so on bodies!
p.giannakis
Pan Giannakis
Hi btgc, thanks for your update, I will add your comment on my blog !