Yashica FX-2/Tamron 28-70Macro

Good stuff. Love 'winter path', evocative photo that tickles my imagination. Hard to judge on my iPhone but the Tamron seems to be delivering good result.

I'm shooting FR1 right now but yet to develop.
 
I really like Yashicas. The Yashica ML and Tamron lenses are very good. I use both, and like them a lot. Yashica bodies are inexpensive to buy these days. I picked up a nice FX-D with standard lens for $25 CDN. I ordered some seals from Jon Goodman, and it was good as new.
Your Shining Down photo is my favourite.
 
Beautiful shots. Of course viewing anything on line, it is difficult to judge the performance of the lens. How did it look to you. I don't think I have had a Tamron lens, but used to hear good of them. I also don't have an FX-2, but have an FX-3 that I bought about the same time as I got my ill-fated Contax 139Q. I got it as a backup. It is now a backup to my FX-103 and Contax 167mt. Both good cameras as long as they have battery power, but paperweights if they don't.

How do you like the combination?

The shots are well composed and beautiful with the snow. We didn't get any where I live in Northern Virginia, despite the early warnings of up to 4 inches. I guess you folks down there grabbed on and wouldn't let go.

Note, I put the same comments in the thread containing the photos.
 
ColSebastianMoran said:
I have several of these bodies and Yashica lenses, ML primes and zooms.

I haven't shot much with the zooms, but the primes are excellent.
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I started out SLRdom with a Yashica TL Super and a Yashinon 50mm f/1.7. I quickly began to realize how good it was, even without anything to compare it to. I have several other Yashinon lenses, and really love them. The good thing for me is that they will also fit my Fujica ST 901. Yashinons are very under-rated. It seems the same for the C/Y mount Yashinons. I also have several of them I like.
 
I use fx3 2000 super a lot as it is reliable, light and simple. I bought a few ML primes and a couple of Zeiss. Yashicas are a relatively cheap way of keeping GAS going. With the fx3, fx-70 and now FR1, I'm not sure I will get another body. Saw a nice FR for sale for £30 though. But I enjoy shooting with the lenses and might add contax bodies (my mt167 isn't healthy, but they are not expensive). Don't think I'll go for anything older than FR 🙂.
 
Farlymac: you have more samples from the Tamron?

Oftheherd: how does the TL compare to later Yashicas (c/y)?

Col. Moran: what is your favourite yashica body and ML lens?

FX-70 is nice for being light but I prefer FX3. I do like FR1 - solid, well built but film advance isn't as nice as my favourite Konica T3 (smooth, metallic).
 
Thanks, everyone. This is my first operable Yashica SLR. I've owned (and still do) several rangefinders over the years, and once had a 124G TLR. I did buy a TL Electro for parts, and have two TL Electro X ITS's that I need to make one good out of the two. But I did come across a very nice Penta J with the clip-on meter that appears to be functional. It will be my next test subject. I also have the ML 50/1.9, and the ML 70-210/4.5. It was just too cold to trust my fingers to do a lens change in the weather.

This is my first roll from the FX-2, viggi, but you can see more shots by clicking on the link to the complete set on Flickr at the bottom of the original post.

PF
 
viggi said:
Farlymac: you have more samples from the Tamron?

Oftheherd: how does the TL compare to later Yashicas (c/y)?

Col. Moran: what is your favourite yashica body and ML lens?

FX-70 is nice for being light but I prefer FX3. I do like FR1 - solid, well built but film advance isn't as nice as my favourite Konica T3 (smooth, metallic).
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How does the TL Super compare to the C/Y Yashicas? I don't think it does. Different generation of cameras.

The TL Super is all metal, larger, louder horizontal focal plane shutter, match needle. It takes great photos with the Yashinon lenses. Well, with any lens that is good, but IMHO all Yashinons are great lenses. The battery is only for the meter. Without a battery the shutter and aperture can be selected and used, just not with the meter.

AFIK, most Yashica FX cameras are totally battery dependent not only for metering, but also for the camera itself. I think only the FX1, 2, 3 and 3-Super work without a battery. All of the Contax and Yashica cameras of that era suffer from terrible converings. If you see examples that don't show shedding of the skin, it must have been replaced. I never did, just scrapping it all off and using shoe dye. Again afik, except for the 1, 2, and 3 Super, most accept motor winders, and some are interchangable with each other, and the Contax 139Q motor winder. When I got a winder for my Contax 139Q, I felt really empowered. It wasn't long before I decided it was more trouble than it was worth. YMMV. The FX cameras all have metal, vertical FP shutters, controlled electronically. That is why I also got an FX-3 as a backup.

One thing the non-manual FX series has, again, afik all of them, is an incredible off the film plane flash metering when using Contax or Yashica flashes that are dedicated to the camera being used. I have used the TLA flashes on the 139Q, a 167mt, and a Yashica FX-103. They have always delivered.

If that doesn't answer your question, feel free to ask more and more specifically.
 
Not ALL of the C/Y cameras have the bad coverings, FX-1, FX-2 and FR series all have Vulcanite skin just like the M42 bodies, and it wears like iron. The FX-2 is very similar to the TL style bodies in both size and weight, and hand-feel. It has a slightly better viewfinder, though.

The FR cameras can use either the FR winder, or the Contax RTS winder.
 
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