Took som pictures in the woods with Yashica ML 50mm/2 about a week ago. Here is a BW-conversion. More can bee seen on YashicaForum.com

The Yashicaforum has been off to a good start with interested users, and we are already 29 registered users who love Yashicas – great! Now, don’t you want to become number 30 to join the YashicaForum? ;)

YashicaForum.com

Did you think your 126-camera was obsolete? Well, you can buy the stuff at Frugal Photographer. They also give ideas on where to process. Or even load the 126-film cartridge with 35mm film.

Some interesting reading on the film Kodachrome.

I guess many of you read the story about manual focus lenses in New York Times, “Vintage Lenses on Digital Cameras“. It’s nice more people are discovering manual lenses but I guess the prices may go up ;) I’m actually working on an article at the moment for another website, on the same subject.

Manual lenses in New York Times

Find a Film Camera for Under $50
I bought a kit with Yashica J-7 SLR with the lens Yashinon-DX 50mm f1.7 for about $22 on Tradera (swedish version of ebay) :)

Shoot Some Film With Your New Camera!
Well, I’ve shot a blck and white roll and a colour-film roll. Both were Kodak and 400 ASA.
From the first roll
From the second roll

Write a Review of Your Camera, Publish a Photo of Your Camera
By this time I was so excited that I bought the domain www.yashicaforum.com and wrote the review there! :) There are several large photos of the camera in the review, but I guess the first one is most representative:

Yashica J-7 and Yashinon-DX 50mm/1.7

Publish an Entire Roll of Photos
Set on Flickr, here as slideshow (view large):

Since I’ve started buying Pentax and Yashica-things I’vre realized that there are Pentaxforums (and now a Takumar-forum) but no specific forum for us interested in Yashicas.

So I bought the domain www.yashicaforum.com and have installed a forum-application. Eventhough it’s basic functionality at the moment and has to be filled with interesting information and discussions, I hope you will help me – welcome as new member, and feel free to come with suggestions about the site! :)

Brian Auer on Epic Edits has started a photo project, The <$50 Film Camera – read up on the rules on his blog an participate! The project is sponsored by ILFORD Photo and Lomography, and you can win nice prizes… and fame perhaps? ;)

These are the rules in short:

1. Get a film camera for at most $50
2. Shoot some film
3. Write a review
4. Publish a photo of the camera
5. Publich a roll of photos
6. Submit you link to Epic Edits

I will try to participate. Now I just need to choose which camera to use from my shelf! After all, most of them costs less then $50. I’m leaning towards a Yashica rangefinder or SLR, Zenit SLR or Minolta rangefinder.

Minolta Hi-Matic F

Need a battery for you Yashica Electro? Yashica Guy makes an adapter so you can use modern batteries in your Electro-camera. I guess in the long run, it’s easier then to try to find replacements.

For my Yashica Minister D I found the right batteries (PX 625) in a swedish officeshop, I think they also used this model to calculators and stuff.

Oh, and for Yashica owners I added this page to the links the other day.

Yashica Minister D

You and I know it’s easy to get to many cameras and lenses ;) Some of us suffer from “ebayitis”. If you want to get rid of some equipment ebay is not you only option. There are stores that will buy or trade your gear. Through 1001noisycameras I found the american store Calumet, who seems to buy stuff. Mostly DSLR, but they also have Mamiyas and Hasselblads and such. In sweden we have several stores with webshops you can buy, sell or trade with – let me know if you need some links to them.

Mamiya 645

Photo from Wikimeda Commons