From time to time over years I was moved (usually by low price) to take
up Yashicamats. They were, overall, good performers, lighter in weight
that Rolleiflexes, had a brighter viewing screen and a good shutter,
pleasant to use, and produced more than acceptable results; that is,
while they worked. My Y'mats needed repairs more often than all my
other cameras combined, although used least. Most common was a total
lockup; can't wind, can't expose. It was probably a simple fix, but
every Y'mat I owned required it at least once, sometimes more. I don't
know why I ever went back for another. My last one was got rid of 12
years ago and I miss it not at all.
OTOH, I know a team sports photographer who used a Yashicamat for more
than a decade running hundreds of rolls of film and not a single trip
to the shop. Go figure.
Allen Zak
On Sep 18, 2006, at 6:51 AM, Nick Roberts wrote:
My 124G gears have gone - I can't be bothered to get it fixed, as Rolleis are just so much nicer to shoot with IMHO - it's just the feel of quality engineering at work. The Yash is perfectly capable, though.
Nick
----- Original Message ---- From: Roger Wiser <rwiser@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, 18 September, 2006 11:46:41 AM Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Thinking about buying a Rollei
Steve, You are correct in your analysis on the gears .. and I understand
that they are more flimsy than the Rollei gears but I never had a Yash that
wore out but I had a Rolleiflex F with a gear failure but I suspect that it
was from heavy use by the prior owner.
Roger
----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Attaway" <attaway@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2006 9:48 PM Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Thinking about buying a Rollei
Richard:
Absolutely nothing wrong with a Yashicamat. Check the slow shutter speeds,
run a film or two through her to make sure the advance is working
properly, focus is good, no light leaks and you are good to go.
The Yashicamat has a very fine four element lens very like a Tessar in performance. It has a fresnel in the view screen already, so you don't have to buy one. I found the shutter and diaphram wheels on my old Yashicamat LM very smooth and preferred them to my Rolleicord V's lvs shutter.
The only drawback to the camera is that the film advance gears make rude
cheap noises very like a Japanese tin robot being wound. But then, you can
probably another Yashicamat or two for the cost of servicing a Rollei's
film advance.
Stephen
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