Yashica M3

[ValProPh]

Hi,
I would like to ask a question about one camera I can’t find anything about.
Yashica M3!? Anyone knows anything about it?
Will really appreciate your help.

 

[Phil_F_NM]

From a minute on Google I found that it is the early version of the Minister III.

Phil Forrest

 

[xayraa33]

Hi,
I would like to ask a question about one camera I can’t find anything about.
Yashica M3!? Anyone knows anything about it?
Will really appreciate your help.

Welcome to the forum.

The closest Yashica came to the Leica M3 was the Yashica YF from around 1959 which was really a re-badged Nicca, when Yashica bought them out for their focal plane shutter construction expertise a few months before. This was the sad end of the Nicca camera company.

The camera came with a very good Yashinon 50mm f 1.8 made by Tomioka

The YF was not a great seller, as by 1959 everyone wanted an SLR as the latest and the greatest. Many YF models were sold at a great discount in the early 1960s.


http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Yashica_YF

 

[ValProPh]

Thanks Phil, but probably this is the only post from Rino on MFLenses forum can be found.

 

[Phil_F_NM]

If you cross reference the images of the M-3 and the Minister III, you can see they are the same camera. There is also a youtube video with an M-3 and I've owned a Minister III, so I can tell you they are the same. It is an uncommon, short production camera with a decent lens and a selenium meter.
Do you have one?

Phil Forrest

 

[film nut]

HC-110 problem

HC-110 problem

I've been using HC110 with dilution H for awhile with no problems. The last roll of Tmax 100 in 120 was a total failure. I went through the developing process and when the time was up I poured it out and it looked like ink. I thought to myself " that looks like the emulsion just washed out". I kept going through the process of "stop,fix etc." just incase things were still ok; but in the end, my film was clear. The emulsion was completely cleaned off. I noticed that when I poured it in my tank it looked amber colored instead of clear. Does HC-110 change with time? I mixed it one month ago. I processed a roll of 35mm three days earlier with no problems. I just dumped what I had left and mixed a new batch but haven't tried it yet.

Mike

 

[ValProPh]

If you cross reference the images of the M-3 and the Minister III, you can see they are the same camera. There is also a youtube video with an M-3 and I've owned a Minister III, so I can tell you they are the same. It is an uncommon, short production camera with a decent lens and a selenium meter.
Do you have one?

Phil Forrest

Thanks for information. Yes I have bought one, and it was very interesting to find that it was quite rare one...

 

[film nut]

I've been using HC110 with dilution H for awhile with no problems. The last roll of Tmax 100 in 120 was a total failure. I went through the developing process and when the time was up I poured it out and it looked like ink. I thought to myself " that looks like the emulsion just washed out". I kept going through the process of "stop,fix etc." just incase things were still ok; but in the end, my film was clear. The emulsion was completely cleaned off. I noticed that when I poured it in my tank it looked amber colored instead of clear. Does HC-110 change with time? I mixed it one month ago. I processed a roll of 35mm three days earlier with no problems. I just dumped what I had left and mixed a new batch but haven't tried it yet.

Mike

Sorry, wrong thread will move it

 

[farlymac]

Thanks for information. Yes I have bought one, and it was very interesting to find that it was quite rare one...

The M3 was renamed as the Minister III because Yashica was sued by Leica over the name. And that wasn't good enough for Leica, as Minister III could still be contracted into M3, so Yashica then switched to letters for the designation with the Minister C even though it was a newer design (C being the third letter in the alphabet, but it was the fourth camera).


There never was an M2 because the M3 was the third camera made under the new designs, after the Yashica 35, and the original M.


PF

 

[johnf04]

There was a Minister II.....
http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Yashica_Minister_II

The Minister I (just called Yashica M on the camera) had a light value set shutter, and a long rewind crank on the base, which pops out when "rewind" is selected.

Also after the Yashica 35, came the YK, which looks similar to the 35, but with a shorter base rangefinder and f2.8 lens; and the YL, which has a stepped top, and parallax adjusted framelines.

 

[Kai-san]

According to the Yashica TLR page there was a camera marked M-II, but it was identical to the Minister II:


http://www.yashicatlr.com/Yashica35.html


As a curiosity there was also an Electro M5 according to Yashica-guy:


http://www.yashica-guy.com/document/chrono2.html