Yashica Minister III

[vbarniev]

Anyone with any hands on experience?

 

[b1bmsgt]

I have a bit... Anything I can do to help?

Russ

 

[vbarniev]

The Selenium Cella are working. I have used a LunaPro and does not coincide with the camera meter. I guess I should with my hand held meter.

 

[b1bmsgt]

I always recommend the use of a hand-held with any of these cameras as the meters are not very trustworthy, as you have noticed...

Russ

 

[vbarniev]

Well; I've replaced the ligh seals. It's prone to suffer from flare.

 

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Got a Hood.

 

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[howpow]

Hi. There appears to be a focus problem. These cameras had nice sharp lenses and should be capable of much sharper photos. Perhaps the rangefinder needs calibrating.
best regards.

 

[vbarniev]

Thanks. Bad focusing on my part. My eyes are not what they used to be.

 

[elwrongo]

Just set it at infinity with f16 for depth of field on a sunny day like this. That will test if the camera's rangefinders out or not.

 

[elwrongo]

Hey I've got one of these. I just dragged it out and I'm amazed how similar it is to the Yashica Lynx 14. Not like the earlier Ministers which seemed a bit smaller and more like Yashica J's etc.

 

[vbarniev]

Thanks. I'm enjoying mine. I'll try your rec. I like my Lynx 14 E IC better, but this is quite a little camera.