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Post by Peltigera on Oct 24, 2015 10:03:00 GMT -5
I like rangefinders and I keep buying Yashica rangefinders. So far, they have all had faults - mostly with the shutter. The Lynx 500 I bought someone had clearly tried to take apart and the Minister III only fired sporadically. This one seems, so far, to be working perfectly - apart from the light meter which needs a battery I cannot source yet. I am going to have to replace the light seals - a given on a Japanese camera of this age. Hopefully, next week I shall be able to run a test film through it.
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retina
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Post by retina on Oct 27, 2015 1:16:51 GMT -5
I always liked my Yashica Minister D. It was my first 35mm camera, and always returned great results. I bought one again a dozen years back and it was just as good as I remember.
Like similar Yashicas, the shutters often have a bent or broken coupling pin to the shutter speed setting cam inside. This was due to someone forcing the setting ring. The shutter uses a light-value setting system, and this prevents you selecting every possible combination of shutter speed and aperture from memory.
Regards, Chris
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