Recommended Film for Yashica Electro 35 GSN

[Sofa King]

I've always just used Fuji Superia color print film because it's so cheap and the results are pretty good. I've used it with a Leica M6 + 2/35 Biogon, a Nikon F100 + Nikkor 50mm f/1.4, a Canon A-1 + 50mm f/1.8 and 28mm f/2.8, amongst other cameras and this film never struck me as anything speical until I used it with my Yashica GT. And I've only shot one roll so far. And it was indoors in the worst lighting.

I guess what I'm trying to say is any color film you put behind the Yashinon 45mm f/1.7 is going to look great.

 

[ully]

I have three yashicas, one with B&W, one with color 160 or 200 and one wtih slide film.
Ready for anything.

Cheers

 

[actorlife]

GSN No. 2

GSN No. 2

Thanks guys! I went to BH yesterday and bought 5 diffrent films. I just got my second GSN today. It's in A- shape better than my first one! The only thing is the viewfinder is a bit darker. I hope it doesn't effect my lowlight shots. I did open it to clean it and is better, but still a little dark compared to my other one. The serial number is lower than my first GSN. Maybe it was a problem with the first batch?

 

[FallisPhoto]

Hello! I'm new here and found this forum to be great. I recently broke down and got a GSN which is on it way to me next week. Had everything checked and the camera is in great working condition(phew). I was recently told that the Fuji Reala and Kodak 400UC were really good film. Any other recommendations? Thank in advance! Joe

Actually, that is like asking a painter what the best kind of paint is. There is no single best film, because each is different and you use different films for different effects. For example, in b&w, Efke 25 is a nice, slow film, wtih very high resoultion and it's nearly grainless. It would be great in medium or large format if you wanted to see the makeup powder on your model's face -- but if you want to take a gritty, grainy photo (like those in some of the battle sequences in "Saving Private Ryan") it would be totally unsuitable. There, Tri-X, developed in warm D76, would be better. The choice of film is pretty much up to you unless you get into long automatic exposures in dim light. Then, I can only tell you that I've gotten fairly accurate long autoexposures with T-Max 100 in my camera. Anything else with a similar reciprocity curve should do about the same -- for me, in my camera. Can't say what it will do in yours though. You really need to learn how at least half a dozen very different films will work in your camera, so you can have the versatility to get what you want out of it.

 

[jimi-the-jive]

No one really mentioned b+w in detail, I recently shot a roll of rollei retro400 through my gsn, and got brilliant detail and tone, it wasn't quite as dense as i would have liked but that was the development. But the amount of detail in a 400 speed film was amazing. and the constrast gives it a lovely vintage feel when coupled with the lens in the gsn.

 

[RFOBD]

$5 for a roll of Ilford XP2 is "reasonable?" Well, I guess it's not outrageously expensive, but I was just remembering my days in the late 60s when Tri-X was a bit over a buck a roll. (sigh)

$1 in 1969 is $5.75 today. A bit over $1/roll would be worth even more.