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A Yashica 124G that is.
A camera I have a lot of good memories of and about. I owned and used a Mat124 in Viet Nam while stationed there as a photographer with the 25th Infantry Div. Some of the best work I did at that time was with the Yashica. Plus-x pan , developed in Microdol X, 1-3 rendered some astoundingly detailed negatives. The Mat 124 went throught some really tough times. It got completely soaked in the rain more than once and never let me down. By the time I was to leave all the imitation leather had fallen off and it had more than a few scapes. But it worked perfectly and I sold it to a fellow soldier before I left.
Coming home from Viet Nam we stopped in Yacota, Japan and in the PX there I bought a Mamiya C-220 with an 80mm and 135mm lens . I was stationed in Germany next and it was there that I found I didn't like the Mamiya as much as my old Yashica. So I bought the new model of the Yashica, the 124 G. And again shot some of the sharpest and most detailed negs I had seen. For reasons I cannot recall nor understand now I sold that camera before I left Germany. And kept the Mamiya.
I had been looking at the 124Gs on ebay and was horrfied. I paid $80.00 at the PX for a new one in 1971. Now they were selling for a couple hundred bucks for a used one. I watched for a while but decided that I could not bring myself to pay that much for the camera.
But I found one just recently that seemed to be overlooked. Or it might be that most people want everything like new when they buy used. The one I got has some corrosion in the meter battery well and the self timer does not work. But otherwise in good shape. I got the camera today and I think I could get the meter to work but I doubt I'll bother. Aside from owning a Luna Star F digital meter I have found f-16 at the film speed to work quite well thank you. Especially with this camera. In the field on a normal sunny day I would shoot asa 125, f-11 at a 250th with the focus set at infinty and I'd use the sports finder for composition and framing. Everything from 1 meter to infinity was in crisp sharp focus.
So for $60.00 w/shipping I now have my old friend back. Now where is that Microdol?
A camera I have a lot of good memories of and about. I owned and used a Mat124 in Viet Nam while stationed there as a photographer with the 25th Infantry Div. Some of the best work I did at that time was with the Yashica. Plus-x pan , developed in Microdol X, 1-3 rendered some astoundingly detailed negatives. The Mat 124 went throught some really tough times. It got completely soaked in the rain more than once and never let me down. By the time I was to leave all the imitation leather had fallen off and it had more than a few scapes. But it worked perfectly and I sold it to a fellow soldier before I left.
Coming home from Viet Nam we stopped in Yacota, Japan and in the PX there I bought a Mamiya C-220 with an 80mm and 135mm lens . I was stationed in Germany next and it was there that I found I didn't like the Mamiya as much as my old Yashica. So I bought the new model of the Yashica, the 124 G. And again shot some of the sharpest and most detailed negs I had seen. For reasons I cannot recall nor understand now I sold that camera before I left Germany. And kept the Mamiya.
I had been looking at the 124Gs on ebay and was horrfied. I paid $80.00 at the PX for a new one in 1971. Now they were selling for a couple hundred bucks for a used one. I watched for a while but decided that I could not bring myself to pay that much for the camera.
But I found one just recently that seemed to be overlooked. Or it might be that most people want everything like new when they buy used. The one I got has some corrosion in the meter battery well and the self timer does not work. But otherwise in good shape. I got the camera today and I think I could get the meter to work but I doubt I'll bother. Aside from owning a Luna Star F digital meter I have found f-16 at the film speed to work quite well thank you. Especially with this camera. In the field on a normal sunny day I would shoot asa 125, f-11 at a 250th with the focus set at infinty and I'd use the sports finder for composition and framing. Everything from 1 meter to infinity was in crisp sharp focus.
So for $60.00 w/shipping I now have my old friend back. Now where is that Microdol?
