dmr
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Wow, I never thought I would ever use the term GAS in the first person. I never heard the term until I joined here and then I thought I was immune, since before coming here I could count the number of cameras I owned in my lifetime on one hand.
Anyway, to make a long story long ...
Last week I and a friend of mine at work were going over a bunch of mounted prints I had and we were deciding which ones would go in whose office. Another co-worker came in and asked what we were doing and who took those <bfg> and asked me if I was into cameras. I told her I was into photography. <touche'> 🙂
So she starts telling me the story that she has a camera at home which used to belong to her ex-husband and he left it when he moved out and never asked for it, and this was many years ago. She said that if I could use it I could have it since it's just been collecting dust for 20 years. I asked her what kind and she said something like :
"It's one of those very old ones that you look into the top of."
So anyway I didn't even think of it until a couple hours ago when she comes in with this camera and case.
Anyway, it turns out it's a Yashica model D TLR. Except for the case, the thing is IMMACULATE!
I said that I would be willing to help her find a buyer if she wanted to sell it, but she insisted "It's yours, I'm not taking it back home!"
Soooo ... I've been spending the last 1/2 hour looking the gift horse in the mouth so to speak. It's really in good shape. Glass is clean, no grunge anywhere, shutter works and I have to assume it's accurate, maybe.
(I guess I should go back and read that TLR thread from last week now, huh?)
I've never used one of these. I haven't shot anything on 120 since I would occasionally shoot my dad's old folding Kodak once in a while. I still don't know what's available in 120 or 220 film, and I was unsure if anybody regularly processed it. I phoned this independent camera shop and they said to come in and they would show me what's available and also that they did process it, and said they did "a run of it every 2-3 days or so" and yes they can scan the negatives to CD-ROM.
Is anybody here familiar with this camera? Any hints? (Sorry if this is somewhat OT, I know it's not a true rangefinder.)
It appears to be all manual. No metering or anything. You have to manually cock the shutter. It has a flash shoe on the side, but not a hot shoe. I guess I'll have to apply the sunny-16 rule for a test roll.
I realize this is not a Rolleicord by any means, but it looks fairly decent. Any comments about it? Thanks in advance. 🙂
Anyway, to make a long story long ...
Last week I and a friend of mine at work were going over a bunch of mounted prints I had and we were deciding which ones would go in whose office. Another co-worker came in and asked what we were doing and who took those <bfg> and asked me if I was into cameras. I told her I was into photography. <touche'> 🙂
So she starts telling me the story that she has a camera at home which used to belong to her ex-husband and he left it when he moved out and never asked for it, and this was many years ago. She said that if I could use it I could have it since it's just been collecting dust for 20 years. I asked her what kind and she said something like :
"It's one of those very old ones that you look into the top of."
So anyway I didn't even think of it until a couple hours ago when she comes in with this camera and case.
Anyway, it turns out it's a Yashica model D TLR. Except for the case, the thing is IMMACULATE!
I said that I would be willing to help her find a buyer if she wanted to sell it, but she insisted "It's yours, I'm not taking it back home!"
Soooo ... I've been spending the last 1/2 hour looking the gift horse in the mouth so to speak. It's really in good shape. Glass is clean, no grunge anywhere, shutter works and I have to assume it's accurate, maybe.
(I guess I should go back and read that TLR thread from last week now, huh?)
I've never used one of these. I haven't shot anything on 120 since I would occasionally shoot my dad's old folding Kodak once in a while. I still don't know what's available in 120 or 220 film, and I was unsure if anybody regularly processed it. I phoned this independent camera shop and they said to come in and they would show me what's available and also that they did process it, and said they did "a run of it every 2-3 days or so" and yes they can scan the negatives to CD-ROM.
Is anybody here familiar with this camera? Any hints? (Sorry if this is somewhat OT, I know it's not a true rangefinder.)
It appears to be all manual. No metering or anything. You have to manually cock the shutter. It has a flash shoe on the side, but not a hot shoe. I guess I'll have to apply the sunny-16 rule for a test roll.
I realize this is not a Rolleicord by any means, but it looks fairly decent. Any comments about it? Thanks in advance. 🙂
