NickTrop
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This is Yashica's first fixed lens rangefinder from 1958. (Very cool looking rip of the Contax and Nikons of the day... like to try this one if I could get a good sample cheap...)
Anyway, Yashica - or perhaps Tomioka Optical, made a little boo boo (the camera equivalent of the infamous "six fingered Spock") as the author of this page, Roger Provins, states. Can you find the error?
http://www.rogerprovins.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/y35/y35.html
Anyway, Yashica - or perhaps Tomioka Optical, made a little boo boo (the camera equivalent of the infamous "six fingered Spock") as the author of this page, Roger Provins, states. Can you find the error?
http://www.rogerprovins.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/y35/y35.html
planetjoe
Just some guy, you know?
Apparently, they don't know how to spell the name of their own lens. Curious.
Cheers,
--joe.
Cheers,
--joe.
dnemoc
Established
That's funny 
nikon_sam
Shooter of Film...
Yashinon...
mainicca
Registered Usurper
Perhaps we are spelling it wrong all these years.
steamer
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mainicca said:
In the Japanese writing system the letter for shi is sometimes transliterated into English as 'Si.'
jan normandale
Film is the other way
Nick, I use a lot of Yashica RF's so I'm obviously a fan. I'm not surprised by his comment regarding the Yashica glass. It performs. It's weakness is shooting into sun which brings dreaded "Yashica flare"
NickTrop
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jan normandale said:
Agreed. Lynx14e is the worst flare-wise (but you would still have to pry that camera from my cold dead hands)... best is the CC. Seems they got better over time.
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NickTrop
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steamer said:
Sumi ma sen, Nihongo ga waktimas ka?
pesphoto
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Agree about the 14e, im sorry i sold mine. To me the YAshica's are the class of fixed lens rangefinders.
NickTrop
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pesphoto said:
Even compared to other 1.4s the lens on that thing is big. I guess that's because it's a little wider (45mm)? Dunno. Big, heavy, flare-prone lens but it's really a great camera nonetheless. Where else are you going to get f1.4 rangefinder glass that doesn't suck without springing for silly money?
Compared to other choices: it has all manual control; good built in meter; a very good 1.4 lens that has a pretty cool "signature", is "plastic-y"/3d-y, and surprisingly sharp; and the underrated capability to sync flash at all speeds that the focal plane system cameras can't do (a big minus for me. I get looks because I shoot with giant old cameras, plus I often use a flash in bright sunlight - but avoid it if at all possible indoors : ); good parallax corrected viewer/rangefinder; a "reliable" built-in CdS meter, nice quite Copal shutter that goes from B to 500...
Got mine on eBay from a Goodwill seller for $2.39 + ship, dead of course and as expected. Gman brought it back to prime form for his reasonable rates, God love'em.
Can't beat that deal for what this camera offers.
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oftheherd
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NickTrop said:
By the time I got my 50mm Yashinon about 1970, they had good multicoating that reduced flare well. Not so on their Yashikor line! I have a more recently acquired 3.5cm Yashinon I have yet to try. Since it is 3.5cm rather than 35mm, it may be older and flare prone.