Show off your TLR!

Tis a thing of beauty.

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Picked up a nice Autocord I - at an estate sale.








I paired it up with a Sekonic L-208 Twinmate, and replaced the strap with
a Domke strap. Sending it to Karl Bryan for a CLA, even though it's in very good
condition. This is my third TLR, I had a Mamiya C220, (regretted selling it), then picked up a Rolleiflex 2.8F ,
the meter did not work, and did not see enough of a difference between the images it produced and my Mamiya 6
to warrant holding onto it (I paid too much), but was able to sell it to a Japanese buyer on Ebay, almost recouping
my costs. I had heard about the image quality the Rokkor 75mm gives,
so looking forward to spending sometime with it this summer.

Any Autocord owners out there, would like to hear your comments.
 
camperbc said:
Perhaps the only remaining Yashica 635 with factory installed black radial control dials.
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It sure is pretty, but how do you know those knobs came on it from the factory? They look like the knobs from a black 124G. I kind of thought that that was the only TLR Yashica was still making in those days. However, I am not a Yashica expert.
 
graywolf said:
It sure is pretty, but how do you know those knobs came on it from the factory? They look like the knobs from a black 124G. I kind of thought that that was the only TLR Yashica was still making in those days. However, I am not a Yashica expert.
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Hi Tom,

This camera was manufactured in 1958.

Yes, the first thing I thought too was that someone may have at some point changed the knobs. But the original owner was adamant that he purchased it brand new, and that no modifications were ever made to the dials. Plus, I have had three camera experts/historians researching this for me, and after analyzing/comparing the serial numbers of the body and lenses with a large database, have all come to the same conclusion... that these are in fact the original knobs. Only a handful of 635's ever left the factory with these black radial control dials in all of the years it was produced, and this was only during the 1958 production run. The serial numbers match precisely with the timeline of when the black knobs were known to have been installed. (also, I was told that it would have been highly unlikely that someone would attempt to replace them, due to the fact that the camera would have to be pretty much dismantled to do so)

It is unknown as to exactly how many 635's received these black dials, (believed to be between 5 and 25) or whether any others still exist today. Also unclear, is why the black knobs were used. (quite possible that someone simply made a mistake)

Glen
 
camperbc said:
It is unknown as to exactly how many 635's received these black dials, (believed to be between 5 and 25) or whether any others still exist today. Also unclear, is why the black knobs were used. (quite possible that someone simply made a mistake)

Glen
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Most likely, because they ran out of the proper knobs. The thing is, that AFAIK, those cameras had plain knobs like my Yashica-Mat 66 (to give it its proper name) above. My earlier one is a Yashica-Mat. Apparently, there were a very few actually labeled, Yashicamat, but only photos of them seem to exist now. Yashica, and its predecessors, was always a rather strange company. Anyone have a Pigeonflex, the original name?

Dang! Not only am I beginning to accumulate cameras, but now I am beginning to sound like a collector. Well, I will never be paying thousands of dollars for mint cameras, unless they suddenly raise social security by a 1000%.
 
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