The DSB range of the Yashica brand is not supposed to be that good. It was their lowcost alternative and single coated. But this Yashica DSB 50mm/1.9 has surprised me a lot. I love the ML 50mm/2, but it would be hard to compare these two. The DSB is a little bigger which makes it easier to handle the rings.
Flowers with Yashica DSB 50mm/1.9
I will soon post some more on the yashicaforum.
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
Today my new manual lens Yashica DSB 50mm/1.9 arrived. Bought it very cheap on Tradera (swe ebay). It’s single-coated and seems sharper then I would have thought. This is a lens with Contax/Yashica mount. Here’s a photography of leafs on the ground, for more images look at my thread on YashicaForum.com. Review will come soon, maybe in comparison to Yashica ML 50mm/2.
Today I uploaded some colourphotos taken with the Yashica J-7 on Flickr. Some nice, but a lot of problems with noice and a lightleak (probably due to my poor handling of the camera in bad weather, and shooting the camera in heavy lights inside softbox). The film is some Kodak colour film 400 ASA from the local grocery store ;)
Henry Hudson rose from my garden
My daughter in swings
Parkinglot
It is my intention to publish a series of interviews on Retrocamera.net. The first one out is Joe Marcel Wolff who runs the site www.yashica-guy.com, an important bookmark for everyone with an interest in Yashica rangefinder cameras or in need of a battery adapter - make sure to pay a visit to the site. But first I like to thank Joe for interesting answers! :) Now, lets start the interview….
Yashica Guy
A lot of enthusiast that love photography and starts with digital, now get interested in film-cameras - the old SLR’s and rangefinders. There’s lots of groups on Flickr, and Youtube videos on street photography. How do you feel about this development? Will this small renaissance for old cameras fade, you think?
“I was not aware that there were many people starting out with digital cameras and then switching to film but rather the reverse.
Part of the problem, if this is in fact a trend, would be that many digital cameras have too many “Bells & Whistles” and take too long to get into ready to shoot mode and the time lag in writing data.
Took the Yashica ML 35mm/2.8 out in the woods the other day. Just wanted to show how sharp it can be.
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
Maybe not the best saturation (it was a gray day, though), but sharp and very interesting bokeh. Here at f2, if I remember it correct. Today my C/Y->EOS adapter arrived, so now I can try my ML-lenses and compare. I see a test of 50mm-lenses in the not to distant future :)
Yashinon DX 50mm/1.7 berries
This is my new Yashica, I just have to show it of even if it’s just unpacked and not tested. The camera in it self might not be fantastic in it’s function but the lens is. And they always look soooo damn good! It was made in 1977, when I was 2 years old.
