Some GSN photos from China

Boy am I glad that the Yashica takes good photos because after my recent luck its going to be the only camera I have left. Thanks for the comments everyone. I need to post these images into my gallery I guess.
 
Fantastic! Great compositions and subject matter - you must be pleased!

You can't beat a mechanical camera with a good bit of glass. Great value at $13.00!!
 
This totally blows me away, Avotius, just totally...(bleep) the M8, my friend, your images, as well as your anecdote, speak louder than megapixels, whatever camera offers them up.

Keep it up, and stay strong, sir.


- Barrett
 
Avotius said:
Boy am I glad that the Yashica takes good photos because after my recent luck its going to be the only camera I have left. Thanks for the comments everyone. I need to post these images into my gallery I guess.
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You guess? You're going to have a lot of upset folks here if you don't post something (me included). You truly floored me (and, if I may speak for a least a few others here, I'm hardly alone). Given all the recent banter on assorted threads here lately about selling off one high-end system for another, something like this helps put us all back on terra firma. It's nice to look at a series of images, forget about tech stuff and simply say wow...a reminder of why I got involved in this crazy stuff in the first place.


- Barrett
 
David:

Yes, a Yashica GSN Electro 35 fixed lens rangefinder. Can generally be found here and there for $10-40 dollars. Sold new in 1973 for just over $100.

You can read a very well-done article about the camera at Karen Nakumura's photoethnography.com site. Nice pix of the camera also.

I had one a number of years ago and was astonished at how good the lens was and how spot-on the exposures were. I sold it to someone on this forum because these old eyes found the viewfinder a bit too dim. Switched to a Voigtlander Bessa R due to its very bright viewfinder. But "it" doesn't take any "better" pictures than did the GSN.

Ted
 
Avotius, these are excellent. Who needs a $1000 plus consumer-level digital kit when you can get results like this with a 30-plus year old, $50 (give or take) GSN?
Wonderful pics... Might never get to see China in this lifetime, so pics like these are very appreciated. Thank you.
 
Leica Geek said:
Great work! I love that the digis conked out.
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Thanks! I hear you got yourself a GSN. I tell ya, the lightmeter on that camera is the best I have ever used, I just cannot fool that thing....its perfect, now if I could only stick it in my bessa...
 
I guess others are figuring out that there's a sleeper in the midst. A GSN went on ebay a couple of days ago for a hundred bucks.
 
If it's guaranteed to work the GSN goes for quite high price some times. But for a little more than a hundred bucks you could have gotten a GX last week :eek:. Fleabay is weird some times...
 
Avotius said:
Thanks! I hear you got yourself a GSN. I tell ya, the lightmeter on that camera is the best I have ever used, I just cannot fool that thing....its perfect, now if I could only stick it in my bessa...
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I picked one up for $65.00 on ebay. It looks new with a case. Can't wait to get it. So many cameras, so little time.
 
Beautiful. I have an Electro 35, but have never taken such wonderful pictures with it. It is good to see online how good the photos look. Were the photos scanned, or the negs? They look really outstanding.

Out of curiosity, your classmates were having problems with their electronic cameras presumably because the cold weather brought battery voltage down. But a Yashica GSN uses batteries too, doesn't it?

A couple more comments. There are a couple posts in this thread that suggest that Yashicas are a lower class camera than others. (i.e. "It isn't the camera...") The Yashica Electros were top-shelf cameras. As you can see, they will hold their own against anything out there. They just never developed the snob appeal of the German cameras, because all Japanese stuff was considered cheap in the 1960s and 70s.

My grandpa handed this camera down to me. A few years ago, I put my Electro 35 (an original, pre-GSN) on ebay. I wanted at least $50 for it, as it is pristine, except for a dented filter ring, which I was afraid to try to bend back. It didn't sell. After looking to see what they were going for, (AFTER the auction finished) I wasn't willing to part with it for $10-12.

A few years later, I have sold a Rollei XF35 that my grandpa also gave me. It was functional, but not such a jewel as the Electro.

I guess the moral is that I'm glad I didn't sell it.

Not to hijack, but my Pentax K100D works fine in cold temperatures. The trick is just to keep the batteries warm. I try to keep it inside my coat until it is time to shoot. Or at least have a spare set of warm batteries in an inside pocket.
 
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A tip of the hat to Avotius for his good taste in picture taking and in cameras.
These China pix, too, are from a Yash GSN:
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How were those scanned? They look quite nice.
 
More GSN shots from China

More GSN shots from China

Thanks. I scan 135 film using a Minolta Dimage Scan Dual IV, using Silverfast software.
 
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