Yashica Electro 35 GTN.

[merelyok]

This little wonder never ceases to amaze me.

The lens on it is seriously wonderful!


(SOOO CUTE.)

[poilu]

wow! this is 3D

[ryan s]

Ok, I really need to fix mine ASAP

[F16SUNSHINE]

Brilliant!!
Post more please.

BTW Please post in RF section. Thanks

[Orio]

Well... it seems I have just won a Yashica Electro GSN... I don't know the difference with this model... I hope it's just as good. If not, I will resell it

[Jieffe]

[Orio]

Thanks Jieffe

Merelyok what film did you use?

[merelyok]

[Laurence]

Hey, I guessed right, in my own mind - I said to myself: "Velvia for sure. Skin colors are red, and the other colors are vibrant hues."

I love the cat image especially, with its reduced depth of field and tack-sharp results!

The IS a treasure of a camera and lens!

[panos]

Greetings ,
My father has an Electro 35 GSN in great condition and i want to save her from the lonlyless of the selve .
I found out in the net alternate types of batteries and i think is quite easy to manufacture an adapter .
I wanted your advice in films thow because i have no idea about it .
Can you recommend any ?
I d like to use the camera both in low light conditions and good light and i`ll try Bw to .
I also read somewhere ( cant find the link now ) that you can `fool` the camera by selecting a different iso film than the one that is loaded and
achieve differnent speeds or so ( since it is a aperture priority only ) . Is that correct and if so how does it affects the exposure ?

Excuse me if i ask silly questions but i never worked with film .

Thanks a lot .

Panos .

[martinsmith99]

Films are a question of taste. I use mainly Ilford films for black & white. I'm afraid I don't shoot much colour but the Fuji brand seems to be popular.

It's easy to shoot the film at a different iso than indicated on the film. Some films do this better than others. I'm currently shooting a roll of FP4 which is 125iso film. I've set the camera to 100 iso so all my shots will come out slightly overexposed. You simply adjust the development time accordingly, but you must shoot the whole roll at the same setting. And of course tell the lab this.

[trifox]

what to say?

brilliant!!

tf

[Attila]

Slide and Yashica Electro winner combination ! Congrats for your stunning images!

[panos]

Hello again
I got the battery and some cheap films to enter the film world .
I picked up the camera from my fathers house and it really looks great .
I havent made an adapter for the battery yet so i dont know if lightmeter works and i probably will know ( if it is accurare mostly ) after the development of the first film .
The only problem i got is that the camera deffently needs a light seal kit which i already ordered .
If i cover the back with tape do you think i will be able to shoot ( seal the camera for now ) ?
I cant wait for the seal kit to arrive
By the way the film i got are slide sensia 200 , superia 800 and bw400cn .

Thanks for your time ,

Panos .

[Attila]

Sensia 200 was huge disappointment to me

[estudleon]

[panos]

[Attila]

http://www.mflenses.com/gallery/v/filmcamera/japanese/pentax_mx/

sensia 200, light was ideal beautiful sunny day. Result is more than crap from a slide film.

[panos]

[panos]

Hello ,
well i got some good and some bad news . . .
I had time today to play with the camera .
The good news i made a battery adapter out of a few 1 cent coins and some tape and the battery check and the lightmeter worked .
After that i began cleaning the camera and i noticed a foggie viewfinder which made me check thorougly the lens .
As it seems there is some fungus in the lense ( i never saw before it seems something like a spider web or so ) to the upper right corner .
Im sad because i cant clean in on my own but since it is my fathers camera i ll probably try to find a pro to fix it for me . The fun part is that the lense beside the fungus seems almost as new there is almost no dust .
i think that the viewfinder must got fungus aswell since there is some on the lense (

Panos .

[panos]

Goodmorning ,
i just got a phonecall from the pro i gave my electro for a cleaning and check .
It will be ready tommorow .
He said he cleaned up both the lense and the viewfinder and also checked the lightmeter .
The lightmeter as he told me works perfectly .
The cost is 40 Euros . I didnt asked him if he changed the lightseals but its ok since i already ordered a set and i will have it in a few days .
I know it s a bit expensive but the camera has sentimental value so i would fixed it anyway .
I hope i m not boring anyone with my electro trouble .

Thanks and merry christmas ,

Panos .

[seuret]

[LucisPictor]

[panos]

Goodmorning all
I m waiting Monday to receive my first roll shot with my GSN
It was actually shoting without replacing the light seals because i just couldnt wait so i realy dont know what i shot althow i had the original case on witch covers the back .
I m going to try to install the light seal kit tomorow morning .
I read that the whole Electro series can time alone to 30 secs shutter speed .
Is that true ? I havent try to do so until now . . .
Anyway the tecnician as it seems did a really good job on removing the fungus and the viewfinder it is almost crystal clear concidering it s condition before . I ll have to shoot a couple of films more thow to see if he did a good job with the lightmeter and i still wont be sure as films have an exposure tolerance of 3 stops if i m not mistaken .

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year my friends .

Panos .

Ps The first film was a superia 800 i asked the minilab to transfer the photos on a cd rom too so i ll try to post if i shot anything worth seeing .

[fish4570]

i've got a hand-me-down gsn that isn't working - and hasn't for years. but it apparently is in excellent shape going by appearance. you guys have got me to thinking ...