[pure-silver] Re: Wife brings home a garage sale camera
- From: John Meyers <jmeyers102@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 07:54:46 -0700 (PDT)
The Yashica camera has a non-interchangable lens. The
accessory lenses you got simply screw onto the front
of the camera lens.
For complete information about this camera, and all
the Yashica rangefinder cameras, as well as
replacement batteries, go to this site:
http://www.yashica-guy.com
John Meyers
--- Mark Blackwell <markb1958@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well its rare the wife is picking up camera gear,
> but for a grand total of
> 15 bucks she bought a Yashica MG-1. It came with 2
> extra lenses, what they
> call a wide angle and a telephoto.
>
> Several issues though. First is that I can not seem
> to find any kind of
> release to get the lens off. From the other lenses,
> it appears to have a
> screw mount lens, but if it just a screw mount it
> appears to be stuck on
> pretty tight. Ideas on getting it off.
>
> Second is the issue of a battery. The battery in
> the case is a panasonic
> mercury battery HM-4N of 5.6 volts. Trouble is I
> don't think mercury
> batteries are available anymore. Any ideas on where
> something comparable
> might work.
>
> The camera had no manual with it and I have not
> found a shutter speed
> adjustment. I see two lights with slow and over on
> it and a lever right
> next to it with something that looks like it might
> be a flash symbol and
> auto. Is this the shutter speed adjustment and if
> so how do you tell what
> it is. Or do you do like those of yesteryear and
> just guess. Makes you
> appreciate the speed of the modern SLR.
>
> This kind of stuff is intriguing to me. I ususally
> end up spending way more
> than I should. Yet for 15 bucks I also got a slide
> projector that seems to
> work and a Sunpack 120 I haven't checked yet.
>
>
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