Yashica Mat 124g Lens

And really there is just something iconic about the tlr twin lens reflex look it s a pretty.

Yashica mat 124g lens. We have installed a fresh 1 5v battery for the light meter. I was introduced to various brands of tlr when browsing instagram accounts that sell analog cameras. The yashica mat 124g is one of those cameras that has just always caught my attention. I didn t pay much attention to these cameras except for the yashica mat 124g.

I saw many tlrs such as seagull yashica mat lm yashica 635 and yashica mat 124 124g. Yashica mat 124 cleaning 1 of 4. It s a beautiful camera even without knowing what it can do photographically. The yashicamat 124g is based on the rolleiflex camera and nearly as good.

2 that enables focus in the 36 45cm range. The viewing lens has a bigger aperture of f 2 8 to allow for easier focusing via the brighter ground glass screen. The standard yashica mat 124g lens focuses down to 1 meter. It s worth noting that both lenses have a parallax correction feature.

It has been fully tested and all mechanical functions perform well. 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. If i was going to buy another tlr i would get an f2 8 rolleiflex. Make offer tested yashica mat 124g 80mm f 3 5 new cds cell cla close up lens case vgc n mint meter works yashica mat 124g 6x6 tlr medium format camera japan 432 392 99.

Taking lens the next four posts will be on the cleaning i finished today on my yashica mat 124. 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 yashica mat 124g and the mat 124 its almost identical version have an 80 mm taking lens roughly equivalent to a 50 mm frame of view on 35 mm cameras with a maximum aperture of f 3 5. For me tlr camera is rolleiflex cord.

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. The meter functions but we cannot guarantee accuracy. This beautiful yashica mat 124 g 6x6 medium format twin lens reflex camera has a yashinon 80mm f 3 5 lens. The hefty metal body makes this camera feel like a small film holding tank.

There are two original close up lenses available.