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[Ralph Turner]

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 .

 

[Peter Roberts]

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.

 

[Ralph Turner]

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.

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]

Does the meter work Ralph?

 

[Ralph Turner]

Does the meter work Ralph?

It functions, Gary, but I haven't tried it for accuracy. I usually use my Lunasix F.

 

[Ralph Turner]

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.

 

[Gary R. Smith]

Pretty good results!

I had to look up "Rolleinar" - I like the idea that it's German sorcery...

 

[Ralph Turner]

Cheers, Gary. Yes, definitely a little magic in there somewhere

 

[Pete Askew]

A fine looking camera and an interesting experiment with the close-up lenses. Is there an indicator to allow correction for parralax?

 

[Ralph Turner]

A fine looking camera and an interesting experiment with the close-up lenses. Is there an indicator to allow correction for parralax?

Thanks, Pete. Regarding the parallax issue, as Gary mentions above, that's where the Rollei sorcery comes in. You'll notice that the viewing lens attachment is somewhat the longer of the two supplementary lenses. Somehow those clever bods incorporated a compensating prism, so that the view you see is actually very close to what the taking lens sees. There are differences to how the subject appears, but the overall framing is surprisingly accurate. There is an alignment mark on the barrel of the upper lens so that you mount it in the correct orientation. All clever stuff.

 

[Pete Askew]

I see. I should have followed the links. Clever.

 

[Ralph Turner]