Ralph Turner
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Reading about @Gary R. Smith's Rollei, I thought I'd post a pic of my old Yashicamat. Sadly not as tidy as the Rollei .
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Peter Roberts
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That looks fine to me, Ralph.
Yashica carried the flame for Japanese TLRs long after other manufacturers had given up on them. In so doing they produced some tough little beasts that are currently underrated. Not in the Rollei category of course but pretty damn good nonetheless. I have a Yashica D which coincidentally I took out over the weekend to finish of the last couple of frames of the film in it. It's the only TLR I seem to have gelled with.
I hope the results from your EM are all you wish for.
Yashica carried the flame for Japanese TLRs long after other manufacturers had given up on them. In so doing they produced some tough little beasts that are currently underrated. Not in the Rollei category of course but pretty damn good nonetheless. I have a Yashica D which coincidentally I took out over the weekend to finish of the last couple of frames of the film in it. It's the only TLR I seem to have gelled with.
I hope the results from your EM are all you wish for.
Ralph Turner
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Thanks, Pete. The funny thing is, I've bad the camera for many years (it was well used when I bought it fairly cheap back in the 90s), yet never given it the attention it deserves (though I did put a few rolls through it back then). This was mainly due to what I thought was an issue with frame spacing, with some overlapping, so I had a look at the mechanism in under the film advance crank and all seemed well, but I still had issues. It'd been sat on the shelf for ages (mostly down to going digital in between times).
It's only recently that I thought I'd have another look. It seems that if I advance the film slowly and gently, it stops the toothed wheel that runs on the backing paper from slipping (worn teeth I guess, a bit like lol). Anyway, having run a roll through it recently (partly to try some Rolleinar close-up lenses) it seemed to be ok. I'm just running another through to make sure this wasn't a one-off success.
Gary R. Smith
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Does the meter work Ralph?
Ralph Turner
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It functions, Gary, but I haven't tried it for accuracy. I usually use my Lunasix F.
Ralph Turner
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Trying out the Rolleinars. 1) The heath robinson set-up. 2) What I saw. 3)the adaptor that allows me to use a cable release with the EM. 4) The Rolleinars. 5&6) The result (@ f16, then f3.5). Kentmere 100 dunked in caffenol.
