How To Use A Yashica Mat 124g

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How to use a yashica mat 124g.

If the image below looks like your camera click below to see the full manual. The yashica mat 124g is built very sturdily and to what seems to me to be a high standards. This was not a full cla clean lube adjust mostly because i m not confident i d be able to get it working again if i got into the precision mechanisms on the camera. The last version the 124g was essentially the same as the 124 except that it had gold plated contacts in the meter hence the g suffix.

Use either mallory px 13b eveready epx 13 or equivalent. Use a wein air battery. Both shared characteristics of the later 124 and 124g notably in the nameplate which contains the the meter as it has a round cds meter cell in the front along with iso dial selection on the right. The mercury battery is no longer available.

I have to compose the image even slower compared with the rangefinder yashica i m not complaining here and cranking the film lever make me feel like a magician holding a jack in the box toy. The next page also contains information on how to donate to this site. Before them among others came the 12 120 film only and 24 220 film only but both the 124 and 124g take either 120 or 220 film. All the controls are logical easily accessible and placed pretty much in the same places where one would look for them on almost any tlr.

See my link on mercury battery replacements 2. George tries out shooting with a twin lens reflex for the first time. It is the forerunner to the well known and wildly popular 124g the last of a dynasty of quality yashica tlrs and the culmination of all that came before it. Thank you to fat lama for sponsoring this video get 25 25 off your first rental here.

Yashica mat 124g posted 12 22 02. Taking lens the next four posts will be on the cleaning i finished today on my yashica mat 124. The yashica mat 124 is the penultimate in a long line of medium format twin lens reflex tlr cameras produced by yashica and is clearly a copy of the esteemed rolleiflex tlr. Before the multi format 124 model there were two separate metered models the yashica 12 for 120 film and the yashica 24 for 220 film the word mat did not appear in the model designations.

The yashica mat 124g is a joy to use.