Yashica Lynx already refurbished

[Jesito]

Hi everybody!

Yesterday night I spent some hours cleaning the Lynx and taking out the old seals and replacing by some new ones. It took me some time to cleanup the rails from the old seal, but I finally ended with an almost clean base.
The Lynx has five seals, two on the rails and three more on the door and in the cover hinge.

Some pics:

#1, the "lab" bench. (Don't forget I live in a small flat). Notice the green glasses with magnifier lenses hanging at the top right. The only way to be able to see inside the rails...



#2
Once the old seals removed


#3
There was a seal also inside the lock grooming, difficult to take out


#4
Clean rails, the counter reset lever could not be seen before due to the degraded seals



#5
Putting the new non adhesive seal inside the rails


#6
Some metal polishing and voil?, a brand new camera


A big thanks to Andy to give me the opportunity to learn a lot about these magnificent cameras and to try this one.

Now it's the time to put a roll in and go out to shot whatever target is moving... With 1/1000 of max shutter speed, a lens of 1.8 and a roll of Fuji SUPERIA 200 there are lots of possibilities...

Best regards,
Jes.
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Jesito's backsack:
Zooms Sigma 18-200, Tamron 35-135 and 70-210 short, 70-210 long, 28-70 CF Macro (Adaptall)
Fixed CZJ Planar 50mm 1.7, Helios 44-2, Cosinon 28mm, CZJ Sonnar 135, Industar-61, Jupiter-9, Industar-50, CZJ Pancolar 50/1.8, Tamron 24mm, Tamron 135mm, Sands Hunter 135mm, Weltblick 135mm
DSLR Canon 350D, Pentax *1stDS, SIGMA SD-9
TLR/6x6/645 YashicaMat, Mamiya 645E, Petri 6x45, Nettar
SLR Minolta X300, Fuji STX II, Praktica VLC3, Pentax P30t, Pentax SF7, EXA500, EXA 1A, Spotmatic(2), Chinon CM-4S,
Rangefinders Chinon 35EE, Konica C35 auto, Olympus 35RC, Canonet 28, Yashica Lynx, FED-2, Yashica electro 35, Argus C3, Regula Cita III, Voigtlander Vitoret LR, Welta Welti-I, Argus C4, Kodak Signette 25, Zorki-4, Bessa-R
Compact Film Konica C35V, Voigtlander Vitorets, Minox 35 ML, Canon Prima Super 105
Compact Digital Caplio GX100, Aiptek Slim 3000, Canon Powershot 520


Life is that boring wasted time in between two pictures

[poilu]

Hi Jes
Very nice tutorial. The Yashica really look new. Nice mechanic.

The Caplio make a good job.
Do you prefer it for deep of field for this kind of photo
How is the image quality of 80 iso compared to your 350D
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Have a nice day

[Jesito]

[Orio]

Great series Jes. I now think of you as the "Grey's anatomy" of manual cameras!

(just kidding)
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[Jesito]

[F16SUNSHINE]

Hi Jes
The camera looks great. Don't forget this really great trick from Rick Olesons site. This is one that Carsten brought up a couple months back. I tried this on a Konica S1.6 that has not much contrast left in the rangefinder "window". This trick works great. One thing that I did was to put the little black spot on the inside of the rangefinder window. It is very easy to remove the top to clean the rangefinder inside. By putting the extra dark spot on the inner glass. Now I can clean the outer glass from fingerprints etc.., without mucking up the little piece of black tape. Enjoy the Lynx I think you will find it a fine performer. best regards Andy

http://rick_oleson.tripod.com/index-165.html

[Jesito]