Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/07/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This might not be the place to post this but wanted to share: I picked up a yashica electro 35 G for about 10 dollars in mint condition on a flee market and ran a roll of agfa rsx 100 iso tru it. Right now my scanner is not working (but i will post some pics when it is up and running again) Anyway I was truly amazed of the quality of this camera and lens 45 mm F 1,7. You set the apparture and the camera sets an automatic exposure time - It was fooled in som backlit situations but otherwise the results were very beautiful - sharp contrasty an right on spot exposures with great colour fidelity It is a 35 year old camera with no chips, matrix or stuff like that and it handles a slide film even with "stoneage automatic" very well - sizewise it is almost like a Leica and the build quality is not the worst i have seen. I was planning on getting one of the cheaper 50 mm for my M6 but now i think I will keep the yashica (that I no longer whant to sell) in the bag and wait untill I can afford the new summilux The weather in Scandinavia is a bit roughf for sommer this year, but light is lovely and clear and the many many clouds ads drama to the the pictures