paolita
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Post by paolita on Dec 15, 2009 16:50:27 GMT -5
Let me introduce you my TLRs camera, the only one I have of this type ; I like the square 6x6 format and am thinking to buy another TLRs, probably a Rolleiflex but, by the moment, I am using this Yashica as a 'model' in this shot with old chinese calligraphy brushes and my beloved Leica IIIC
Paola
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2009 22:50:22 GMT -5
Very nice composition on you picture..
You might also consider a Mamiya C330--which has interchangable lenses.
Wayne
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Post by herron on Dec 16, 2009 0:24:12 GMT -5
I agree with Wayne. Nice composition. Is that a Chinese signature chop at the bottom right?
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paolita
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Post by paolita on Dec 16, 2009 16:45:34 GMT -5
I agree with Wayne. Nice composition. Is that a Chinese signature chop at the bottom right? Thanks Ron and Wayne for the nice comments. Yes Ron, it is a jade Chinese signature chop, another big passion of mine is....Oriental Arts. Paola
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Post by herron on Dec 16, 2009 18:59:57 GMT -5
I agree with Wayne. Nice composition. Is that a Chinese signature chop at the bottom right? Yes Ron, it is a jade Chinese signature chop, another big passion of mine is....Oriental Arts. Paola I thought so. I brought several home from Beijing and Shanghai when I was there in the late 80s. Yours looks like a very nice one.
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Post by Wahoo on Dec 16, 2009 19:12:10 GMT -5
Those MAT 124G's can take quite reasonable photographs, here's one from 1982 (sorry about the flash). I had two new ones but unfortunately dropped them, the first down a small mountain and the second from my cycle at about 30 mph onto a cobbled market square - it bounced about 4 feet high.
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Post by drako on Dec 28, 2009 16:42:55 GMT -5
I have a Yashica A. Does anyone know the differences between the A and 124G? (I know for sure it does not have a meter.)
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Post by aceroadholder on Dec 29, 2009 0:08:05 GMT -5
I have a Model A and a Mat 124. They are both excellent moderate priced MF cameras. The 124 has a crank film advance and shutter cocking. The 124 has a 1/500th sec. shutter speed vs. 1/300 on the "A." The 124 has match needle metering and the "A" has no meter. The 124 will accept 220 film by adjusting the film pressure plate for correct frame counting. Here is a picture from 1965 taken with the Model A. The lovely red haired young lady is Teresa, whom I've not seen in 40 years. Orlin in SC/USA
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Post by herron on Dec 30, 2009 13:30:01 GMT -5
I have a Model A and a Mat 124. They are both excellent moderate priced MF cameras. The 124 has a crank film advance and shutter cocking. The 124 has a 1/500th sec. shutter speed vs. 1/300 on the "A." The 124 has match needle metering and the "A" has no meter. The 124 will accept 220 film by adjusting the film pressure plate for correct frame counting. Here is a picture from 1965 taken with the Model A. The lovely red haired young lady is Teresa, whom I've not seen in 40 years. Orlin in SC/USA Ever wonder what she looks like now?
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Post by drako on Dec 30, 2009 15:09:50 GMT -5
Orlin, do you notice a difference in build quality between the A and the Mat 124?
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Post by aceroadholder on Dec 30, 2009 17:14:20 GMT -5
John, the build quality seems to be the same on both cameras. Yashica, whose build quality has always been good AFIK, seems to have had TLR's nailed down. I've not heard any complaints about them. I bought my Mat-124 at the PX in Bien Hoa RVN.. $45 I think new. About a weeks pay. That's perhaps the reason there are a lot of them around for sale. My guess is most have never been used very much. Note that the 124-G has gold contacts for the meter.. never had a problem with mine, but may make the meter operation more reliable perhaps.
I have a Rolli TLR that is a Cadillac, whereas the Yashica's are Buicks. The Rolli is built sort of like the new German bowling ball.. German engineers were able to design it so that it has only has eleven moving parts!
Ron, I've tried to find Miss Teresa, but no luck. I was going to give her copies of the pictures I have of her. She has never seen them. Teresa had that "something" that made any photograph of her really interesting.
Perhaps I'm getting old, but most twenty-something women these days don't seem nearly as mature as Teresa did at 17.
Orlin in SC/USA
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Post by PeterW on Dec 30, 2009 20:33:06 GMT -5
Orlin:
No, Orlin, you're not getting old, just enjoying the prime of life.
Many women of twenty something these don't want to mature. They regard it as missing out on all the fun. A lot of television adverts pander to this.
One which was running here a few months ago showed a carefully groomed model in her early twenties but dressed as a teenager and with a party going on in the background. She said: "Just because you're twenty-five doesn't mean you can't still look seventeen. XXXX face cream helps reduce those signs of ageing."
Signs of ageing! At twenty-five! Ye Gods!
The power of the Great God Advertising.
PeterW
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Post by aceroadholder on Dec 31, 2009 0:22:50 GMT -5
Peter, I'm not sure if young ladies that fall for that should be laughed at or be pitied. On the other hand, have you seen that advert in Photography Magazine that explains how the only thing standing between you and the greatness of Ansel Adams is not having the newest camera from the Whizzo Camera Company?... It must be true.. it was in print and everything.
Orlin in SC/USA
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Post by Rachel on Dec 31, 2009 5:34:55 GMT -5
Signs of ageing! At twenty-five! Ye Gods! PeterW Sigh ... yes Peter I dread getting older than twenty-five ....
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Post by herron on Dec 31, 2009 12:57:55 GMT -5
Signs of ageing! At twenty-five! Ye Gods! PeterW Sigh ... yes Peter I dread getting older than twenty-five .... I had taken to using my late father's line ... it's not a birthday, it's an anniversary. That seemed fine until I realized this next one for me in February is the thirty-seventh anniversary of my twenty-fifth birthday ... and that sounds even older!
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