Tales on Film

Another camera in our collection that I really like is the Yashica Electro35 GSN, it’s a coupled-rangefinder, leaf-shuttered 35mm camera with aperture-priority automatic exposure. It has an f1,7 45mm lens. I found it at a flea market a couple of weeks ago, but I shot already a couple of rolls with it and it’s a no nonsense, fast camera. With a shutter speed of 1/500th of a second it’s a camera built for using during the day with low iso settings. The viewfinder is very clear and the parallax focus is very easy to see, even in dark circumstances.

I love this camera for a couple of reasons, first and foremost, because of it’s easy and fast use. You can set an aperture, the camera will meter for you and indicate through a red or orange arrow if it’s too bright (red) or too dark (orange) to use this aperture. I’ve noticed that although the metering is quite exact, I prefer to use the smallest aperture on which the camera says it’s to bright, this is mainly because I like very bright, saturated and contrasty pictures. The Yashinon lens is very sharp and because it uses 6-elements, has not too much problems with flare.

The only thing that’s not so great on this camera is the battery, it uses a obsolete 5.6v PX32 mercury battery. Luckily enough there is the Yashica guy’s pro , he has made a patent pending battery adapter which you can order online. It cost 16$ and once it arrives, it arrives fairly quick (only 4 days for me), you can start shooting, because the package also includes a battery. It’s a great deal and awesome solution.

It’s a great camera and I love using it. It will not be a camera I will take with me on commercial assignments, but as an everyday camera it’s perfect. It’s fast, silent, sharp and pretty light. I love using it

At a local flea market a while ago I picked up this little charm for only 7 euro. It’s a Yashica 35MF, a half automatic manual focus camera. It’s a fixed lens, fixed shutterspeed camera. It has a 38mm 2.8 lens with a double distance scale, at the top of the lens there are little pictograms, while at the bottom it is a scale with numbers. The camera also has a built-in flash.

The coupled light meter sets the aperture and shows in the viewfinder through a needle which aperture it is going to use. The built-in flash is not very powerful or even interchangeable in power, but it is decent enough to have an interesting effect on night pictures.

I kind of like this camera because it is the perfect party cam, you pop in the film, adjust the focus and start shooting without worrying too much about anything but framing. Sometimes you just want to shoot without any hassle or thinking. So I’m going to take this cam to parties and just snap away.

Also the last day to enter our Easter give away