That's the only FLRF I might actually every buy. 100% manual operation. I wish Yash would have - back in the day, just shrunk the damned things like they did with the later Electros.
Valid point. Lynxes are great, though on daily move I too often choose Electro 35 MC - just because it's much smaller. Wait, body size isn't such a problem, possibly if lens on 5000 would be more compact it would see more use (I'm not asking to compact lens of 14 - that would be too much plain heresy).
Though Electros don't have speed selection ring, shutter don't have mechanical speed mechanism so compact lens for Lynx would come at cost of other shortcuts. Probably compact Copal X (as on half-frame 72-E) couldn't appropriate move blades of needed size, also lacking speeds down 1/8. So Lynxes are as they are.
Interesting that [small sized bodies] CC appeared on 1970, and GX on 1975 (acc. to Yashica Guy). Full sized 35 series continued to develop about in same years, spawning G model in 1968, 35G w/ gold plated contacts in 1970, GSN/GTN in 1973 and GL in 1973.
I have a feeling that small bodied Electros were made as lower class compared to full size Electros. Crummy aperture of CC and awkward flash speed speaks for themselves. Lens were selling point. GX lacks 35mm lens though is of same brightness plus sync at all speeds (if I'm not wrong here).
Do anyone can comment if CC/CCN and GX have gold plated contacts or not? If not, they were sacrificed to cut production costs. I also have feeling that CC and GX are more prone to non-working electronics syndrome, I tend to associate this with lack of G.P. contacts. I can be completely wrong here, though.
